Definition of compell

(The New York Times,...)

`` As long as Mr._Khrushchev is convinced that the balance of world_power is shifting his way , no amount of either smiles or toughness , neither Camp_David talks nor kitchen debates , can compel him to enter fruitful negotiations '' .

("Week by Week"...)

Speaking recently in Miami , Governor_Rockefeller said that `` to assure the sufficiency of our own weapons in the face of the recent Soviet tests , we are now clearly compelled to conduct our own nuclear tests '' .

(Glenn Infield, "America's Secret Poison Gas Tragedy"...)

This country has not used them , and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them .

(Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South - an urbanization which , despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture , has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers .