3 sentences with “compel”

Famine or fear of stronger enemies might compel one tribe to ask for help from another and to give themselves up in a form of slavery in return.

Coercion is the use of force to compel someone to do or say something. For Weber, the state - through its institutions - holds "the monopoly of legitimate force", that is, it is the only one authorised to exercise force.

Nobel called war "the worst crime", and weapons such as those he himself helped to create, "instruments of hell". Indeed, he hoped that their very destructiveness would so shock the world that it would compel it to end wars. But the two devastating world wars of this century were made even more catastrophic by Nobel's inventions.