Examples of by force in a Sentence
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Aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force — these are perennial.
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Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 June 2024
These peoples, then, were not to be reasoned with but to be controlled by force.
—Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2024
He was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape, oral copulation by force, pimping, human tracking and resisting an officer resulting in great bodily harm, the release said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
China considers Taiwan a renegade province and has vowed to bring the self-governing democratic island of 24 million people under Beijing’s control, by force, if necessary.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Advertisement Beijing considers Taiwan a part of its territory and has vowed to reunify it with the mainland and to achieve that goal by force if necessary.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
The dispute then was over KMT plans to boost trade with China, which has pledged to bring the democratically run island of 23 million people under its control someday, by force if necessary.
—Chien-Hua Wan and Debby Wu / Bloomberg, TIME, 21 May 2024
Postal keys were also taken by force in each of the May 11 incidents.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 June 2024
These peoples, then, were not to be reasoned with but to be controlled by force.
—Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2024
He was charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape, oral copulation by force, pimping, human tracking and resisting an officer resulting in great bodily harm, the release said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
China considers Taiwan a renegade province and has vowed to bring the self-governing democratic island of 24 million people under Beijing’s control, by force, if necessary.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Advertisement Beijing considers Taiwan a part of its territory and has vowed to reunify it with the mainland and to achieve that goal by force if necessary.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
The dispute then was over KMT plans to boost trade with China, which has pledged to bring the democratically run island of 23 million people under its control someday, by force if necessary.
—Chien-Hua Wan and Debby Wu / Bloomberg, TIME, 21 May 2024
Postal keys were also taken by force in each of the May 11 incidents.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
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“By force.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20force. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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