bend to one's will

verb1

1. •
   To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires.

   • Cenci: For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / To bend her to my will. Lucretia: Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict? — 1820

verb1

1. •
   To yield to persuasion or other pressure originating from someone.

   • […] this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him. — 1919