Sentence examples for a reasonable force from inspiring English sources

She neatly positioned her party as a reasonable force seeking clarity and respect from Theresa May on the conduct of the Brexit negotiations.

The AEI team also tested a strategy focused on maintaining a reasonable force in the Middle East while increasing the U.S. presence in Asia.

The possibilities of the new law were glimpsed at the Sioux reservation after an earlier experiment in which the understaffed patrol of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was increased to a more reasonable force of 38.

The English common law has long recognized the right of an individual to resist with reasonable force an attempt of a police officer to make an unlawful arrest.

The court noted that at common law, an individual had a right to use reasonable force to resist an unlawful arrest.

There is also a right to eject a trespasser to land using reasonable force, and a defendant is also not liable for "inevitable accidents", as in Stanley v Powell, where a ricocheting pellet was ruled to be accidental.

At 7 pm police began to disperse the protesters around the bank, and senior officers made a decision that "reasonable force" could be used.

Anthony Branley, the solicitor who acted for Mr Hastings, points out that householders have killed burglars and not been prosecuted all of which suggests that the current law allows the use of plenty of force.Michael Wolkind QC, who represented Mr Martin in the Court of Appeal, says it is hard to improve on "reasonable force" as a test.

He relented on his stance in opposition to Sue Bradford's Child Discipline Bill, which sought to remove "reasonable force" as a defence for parents charged with prima facie assault of their children.

Interestingly enough, it is section 93 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 – passed eight years after the HRA– that now allows school teachers to use reasonable force to prevent a pupil from committing an offence.

The law says that the police can use reasonable force, firstly to stop a crime, and secondly, to arrest someone who is putting someone else in danger.