Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court may be used to advantage to compel an acquaintance with standard literature...
...manual worker who strengthens his economic bargaining power by association with other into unions, provided his purpose and methods are legal, exercises an undoubted right of association. But the exercise of that right does not require or compel others who differ with him as to the value of the collective method for the promotion of his individual interest to refrain form joining such organization and it is this which the closed shop seeks to compel. The right to remain unassociated is quite as vital as the right to join any particular association, nor does this right destroy the other...
...obvious, of course, that no sort of pressure can compel Germany to perform the impossible. Just so long as the Allies demand the impossible, just so long will Germany find a means of evasion...
...playing the game with Europe,' and with men like Hoover and Hughes behind him we may expect a change in the active foreign policy of the government. The future of the world lies in the hands of the United States. We can control Germany without doing her injustice, and compel her to live up to the terms of her agreement. Furthermore the combination of Great Britain, France and the United States would be invincible...
...complete annexation of Fiume, yet, contrary to his intentions, he begins to argue by saying that Italy in possessing Fiume would virtually bottle up the Balkan Slavs; besides, he gives no proofs for this false statement. And it is this and the astonishing assertions about D'Annunzio that compel me to write you this letter...