Word: impel
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...citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
...wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped guest what is technically known as the bum's rush...
...which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." That phrase--"a decent respect"--is a very happy one. Cherish "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," but never let that interfere with your personal declaration of independence. I say--begin now to prepare for the judgment of the ultimate human tribunal...
...words that give vitality to his acts. The present war is one of the great things which the world has suffered in its history. A man who has lived so intensely as has Captain Beith speaks with a deeper knowledge, coming from unsurpassed experience, of the motives which impel nations when they...
...trust that our acquaintance with the horrors which so many brave young men are experiencing in Europe will be no closer than in the descriptions of men who have lived through them. We may know that should the necessities of existence impel us to a course we abhor but do not shun, neither the fearfulness nor the tragedy of war will keep one true man back...