Meanings of compel obedience in English

They compel obedience and instil fear and end lives, neatly and swiftly.

To compel obedience by force was for the time being out of the question.

We determined therefore to go on unless stopped by a force sufficient to compel obedience.

Nature has its laws, which, when disregarded, compel obedience.

We must know whether the Government can assert its supremacy and compel obedience to its laws.

It was based on the power to compel obedience, on the right of the powerful to rule.

The weight of this was sufficient to compel obedience to its decisions by the most rebellious member.

Tyrannical conduct may compel obedience, but an amiable spirit alone can command affection, and render servitude pleasant.

After having tried every persuasive method at her command to compel obedience, she proceeded to use the rod.

Of course the German officials were raging, and they resorted to their special line of torture to compel obedience.

He must compel obedience somehow.

It was a voice that could woo seductively and caressingly, or command in such a way as to compel obedience.

The crown officers, for their part, renewed their appeal to England for naval and military forces to compel obedience and secure order.

The physician acknowledged himself dreadfully perplexed; he racked his brain uselessly, yearning meanwhile for the autocratic power to compel obedience among his men.

And thus they fled, knowing that they had, at most, less than a day before the drone would return with enough soldiers to compel obedience.

His eye, fixed in cold command upon the boy, compelled obedience.