Example sentences of "[to-vb] by force " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Hankering after the old order is congenial to some minds , but seeking to revert by force or civil unrest to the status quo ante is not . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like . |
| 5 | But meanwhile North had discovered that the secret shipments of arms to Iran were generating upwards of $15 million which he proposed diverting to fund the American-backed Contra forces fighting in Nicaragua for whom Congress had refused to provide any further financial aid on the grounds that Reagan was involving America in an operation to overthrow by force another country 's legitimate government . |
| 6 | Where any person by speech or writing seeks to persuade others to violate existing law or to overthrow by force or other unlawful means the existing government , he may be punished … but all other utterances or publications against the government must be considered absolutely privileged . |
| 7 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 8 | Recognizing the right of Russia 's minorities to self-determination was the essence of repudiating the Tsarist inheritance and affirming democracy and the principle that peoples should not be compelled to co-operate by force . |
| 9 | " We are facing an organized attempt to remove by force and violence the country 's elected leaders , " he said , and he called on workers to " support the action of eliminating this fascist rebellion " . |
| 10 | The news that Sipotai had tried to recover by force the st'lyan which had been commandeered under the Kha-Khan 's warrant would be bad enough especially since the attempt had failed . |
| 11 | Care staff given powers to restrain by force |