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com·pels

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of compels in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of compels in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of compels in a Sentence

  1. Abe Fortas:

    Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter’s claim.... We have alternatives to violence.

  2. Ryan Pack:

    Religion: Any religion that inspires, encourages, motivates, coerces, compels, forces, unjust behaviors, acts, or constraints, prohibits, just behaviors, acts, is not a religion at all, it is a false teaching. Don't ever devote yourself to it.

  3. Hiram Sasser:

    It further compels our client to use specific pronouns when referring to certain ‘gender identities’ and prohibits our client from even teaching its religious beliefs, cornerstone World Outreach cannot be made to open its restrooms for use by individuals in accordance with their gender identities, rather than their sex assigned at birth.

  4. Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett:

    People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

  5. George Sand:

    It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

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