Example sentences of "forced [prep] him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the subsequent rationalisations , all decisions were forced upon him by shortage of cash . |
| 2 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 3 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 4 | Did he plan to form a national government , or was it an expedient forced upon him by circumstances ? |
| 5 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that figure was forced upon him by Ministers collectively . |
| 6 | Speaking on the day of the ruling , David Lange , the New Zealand Prime Minister at the time of the bombing , described the 1986 accord as an agreement forced upon him by French threats from " the highest level " . |
| 7 | His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders . |
| 8 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 9 | It 's been forced on him by his doctor . |
| 10 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 11 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 12 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 13 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 14 | The defeats and backslidings are not only those forced on him by others , or by circumstances , but those too , less pitiably , which come from within him . |