This is the conception which the molecular theory compels us to form of the gaseous state.
The rapid growth of literature in the 16th century compels him to resort to a classification of subjects.
The Synodical Conference of North America, organized in 1872, compels its pastors to subscribe to the whole of the nine creeds contained in the Book of Concord.
The actuality of things is a defection from the absolute, and their existence compels a reconsideration of our conception of God.
And as the need of making a text compels some sort of decision in every case, the "doubtful" readings of the tradition, some of which on the evidence would be doubtfully accepted and others doubtfully rejected, will all appear with the accepteds in the text.