Example sentences of "by force " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says of the liberals that they were placed in a predicament by the fall : ‘ A democracy can not be imposed by force , the majority must favour it , yet the majority wanted what Khomeini wanted — an Islamic republic . ’ |
| 2 | The suggestion that democracy can not be imposed by force has the force of a generalisation . |
| 3 | Some Irish nationalists hold that it is just to unite the nation by force — a typical view of secular nationalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe . |
| 4 | thesis , in accordance with the directive laid down by Force Orders . |
| 5 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 6 | By force of goddis abuif , fro every steid . |
| 7 | ‘ Internal peace and stability can not be guaranteed by force and by denying the people a voice , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Peer denies requesting repatriation by force |
| 9 | His pay is appallingly low and one month in arrears , and yet he hears that the local party is about to mobilize by force peasants aged between 20 and 40 for the army . |
| 10 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 11 | The proceedings of Sir Paul Scoon after the American invasion were just as revolutionary — meaning validated by force not law — as had been the proceedings of the superseded military regime . |
| 12 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 13 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 14 | This is equally true for the government of Ethiopia 's attempt to move at least one million people , frequently by force , from the northern districts to the west of the country between 1985 and 1987 . |
| 15 | And sometimes — often — it means sending people back , by force if necessary . |
| 16 | And sometimes — often — it means sending people back , by force if necessary . |
| 17 | But that will not settle the trickiest question : whether those republics which are determined not to be part of the Soviet Union will be allowed their independence , or whether they will be kept in by force . |
| 18 | An uprising in Kosovo , put down by force , could ruin the chances of accommodation between Serbia and the rest . |
| 19 | If his army were crushed and Kuwait taken by force , and if the allied forces were then eager to pack up and go home or found themselves no longer wanted , UN peacekeepers could step in . |
| 20 | And Europe was split by the attempts of those who sought to unite it by force . |
| 21 | When the Soviet parliament invoked emergency laws to postpone the strike for two months , the union refused to call it off — in effect , daring the government to end it by force . |
| 22 | We have witnessed a further attempt on the part of the Fascist element in Spain to supersede the democratically elected Government of the People of Spain by force of arms . |
| 23 | It might be a relationship irreparably broken by force of circumstance or particular events : divorce , miscarriage , failure to come up to expectations . |
| 24 | He will try to obtain by force what he can not achieve by the correct use of the aids as taught by the classical school . ’ |
| 25 | But Henry 's indifference to the realities of the Scottish situation came out most clearly in this third , amazing , offer : if resistance to the marriage was successful , he would respond by making Arran king of Scotland north of the Forth by force . |
| 26 | What Henry wanted was control of Scotland , no matter whether by marriage treaty or by force . |
| 27 | On 20 December Pope Clement V was persuaded to issue a Bull , declaring that the concessions Edward had made had been unjustly extorted from him by force , were incompatible with his coronation oath to defend the honour and rights of the Crown , and were therefore null and void . |
| 28 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 29 | He said the rebels ' objective was ‘ not to conquer Kabul by force , but to smash the security perimeter ’ established by government forces . |
| 30 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |