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The phrase "acquisition by force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the taking or gaining of something through coercive or violent means.
Example: "The historical account details the acquisition by force of the territory during the war."
Alternatives: "seizure by force" or "taking by force".
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Mr. Hussein's pistol, which Mr. Bush shows off to visitors, is a different matter altogether, Mr. Sherry said, because it was presidential acquisition by force.
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These included non-derogable rules on the Palestinian right to self-determination and the prohibition on the acquisition of land by force.
Australia's refusal to call the occupation for what it is necessarily endorses Israeli's illegal acquisition of territory by force.
(How else can one explain the audacious Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed an end to European colonization of the entire Western Hemisphere?) Over time, as the nation's strength began to match its aspirations, Americans expanded their divine mandate to include the acquisition of territory by force.
Generalized and refined, that principle is now enshrined in the U.N. Charter as "all Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," and of course emphasized in Security Council Resolution 242 as "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force".
The foregoing discussion has suggested a distinction among political systems in terms of the role played by force in the acquisition and transfer of power.
As support for the Democrats collapsed, Pierce was further discredited when the contents of the Ostend Manifesto – recommending the acquisition of Cuba, by purchase or by force, from Spain – were leaked.
Guidant Sues to Force Completion Of Acquisition by Johnson & Johnson The Guidant Corporation, the embattled maker of heart devices, filed a federal lawsuit to force its $25.4 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, which contends that the deal is void because of Guidant's financial and legal problems.
The agency would also prevent the company from recovering a $1.5 billion "acquisition premium" from consumers by forcing two Northeast Utilities subsidiaries to split any profits above 11percentt with consumers.
In 1999, the Clinton administration issued Executive Order 13126, "Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor".
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