Spanish-English translations for forzar

force
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We cannot force people to accept it. No podemos forzar a los ciudadanos a aceptarla. Nobody will be forced to do so. No se forzará a nadie a hacerlo. It is significantly more difficult to force institutional change. Es significativamente más difícil forzar un cambio institucional.
compel
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However, we cannot compel agreement in the absence of the shared political will to achieve it. Pero tampoco podemos forzar un acuerdo si no existe una voluntad política colectiva de conseguirlo. Mr President, as far as the first question is concerned, we certainly do not want to compel the social partners to reach an agreement - quite the reverse. Señor Presidente, por lo que se refiere a la primera pregunta, no queremos en absoluto forzar a los interlocutores sociales a llegar a un acuerdo, muy al contrario. I should therefore like to request your support, Mr President, in compelling the Commission to comply with the right to information, as provided for in the interinstitutional accords. Pediré, pues, su apoyo, señor Presidente, para forzar a la Comisión a que respete el derecho a la información, tal como prevén los acuerdos interinstitucionales.

make to
obligeI am obliged to report to the police station every week.He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.The singer obliged with another song.
rapeMy experienced opponent will rape me at chessa rape of grapes
shoehorn
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I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule.People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction
thrust
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Pierre was a master swordsman, and could parry the thrusts of lesser men with barely a thought.The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"Spacecraft are engineering marvels, designed to resist the thrust of liftoff, as well as the reverse pressure of the void.