I accept being imprisoned behind locked doors, but no power on earth will compel me to endure your odious presence any longer.

That means it will have no subpoena powers and no power to compel anyone to testify under oath.

Parliamentary committees do have powers to compel witnesses to appear, and those invited are generally expected to attend.

They could not look away, the power of the Baelrath compelled them, and so she would watch it too.

The power of tradition, the relentless fixity of gray culture, his own sense of honor would compel him to complete the act.

Nor is it within any physician's power or authority to compel a patient to do one thing or another with any prescription.

The same power that compels her silence may compel her speech.

It portrays the power of the most abstruse ideas to compel a change.

Firstly we need to look at whether they have got the power and the ability to compel them.

Compulsive, which still means "having the power to compel," is being overtaken by its secondary meaning, "under the psychological coercion of obsession."