Word: compelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speaking at a press conference, said that he would not support a plant that would "compel all our students [to do a year of public service] as a condition of receiving a diploma...
Even as the special prosecutor was forced to take legal steps to compel the turnover of White House evidence, the House Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, received a forward assist in its investigation of presidential conduct. Moving swiftly, federal courts on two levels ordered that a grand jury report dealing specifically with Nixon's Watergate role must be given this week to Rodino for the impeachment inquiry...
...think many of us have seriously considered what an impeachment trial would be like in the era of mass electronic communications. Public opinion would compel the proceedings to be televised. For three months or more the Senate chamber would be transformed into a stage set for the greatest melodrama ever conceived...
Bravado, betokening an early fall? Not really, unless Labor by accident or miscalculation proposes legislation that would compel the Conservatives, Liberals and fringe-party M.P.s to unite in a majority against the government. All parties are well aware, though, that the voters are in no mood for another election and might lash out at the party that prompted one. Heath himself, before taking up his seat on the opposition bench, called on Britons "to set aside partisan differences." Privately, he attributed his defeat in part to the fact that the electorate was fed up with slanging-match politics...
...Consumers Union she will have to calm an internal dispute over whether the organization should concentrate more on product testing or advocacy. Pursuing the latter, it recently has filed lawsuits to compel the Government to improve product safety and reliability standards and to release the justification for price increases filed by major corporations with the Cost of Living Council. Speaking of the testing v. advocacy debate, Mrs. Karpatkin says: "Consumers Union has to do both." The courtroom, in her view, is one more test lab for buyers' rights...