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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. 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.

  2. Sue Grafton:

    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.

  3. Robert Schapiro:

    But at the same time, if I’m president of the United States, no church, synagogue or mosque is going to lose its tax-exempt status because the tenets of their faith do not allow them to perform a same-sex marriage. there is nothing under our law that compels a rabbi, minister or pastor of any kind to perform a marriage that that person doesn’t want to perform.

  4. Robert Schapiro:

    There is nothing under our law that compels a rabbi, minister or pastor of any kind to perform a marriage that that person doesn’t want to perform, that was the law before the Supreme Court decision. And that remains the law afterwards.

  5. Kedar Joshi:

    The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

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