Sentence examples for and by force of from inspiring English sources

And by force of referendum, that is the law".

Circling back on itself, and by force of style raising peculiar and eccentric observations to the level of broad truths.

James K. Polk was by nature a student of government, by experience a legislator, and by force of circumstance an administrator.

The squads were coed, the games were loose, sloppy affairs, but even though I was pushing forty or already past it, I enjoyed reactivating my old baseball muscles and (by force of habit and temperament) always played hard.

Clark was arguing that the British Army in Germany should be massively reduced in response to the end of the cold war, which ran counter to the Ministry of Defence's party line, and by force of argument and cunning, got his way.

Some in the region now say they hope that the success of the Libyan insurrection in toppling Colonel Qaddafi without the aid of an institution like the Egyptian military, and by force of arms rather than moral suasion, could reinvigorate activists in violent struggles elsewhere, especially Syria and Yemen.

The reform measure will establish an independent board to push approaches that work into widespread use in Medicare and ultimately, by force of example, the private sector.

Beckham has always known what he wants - and mostly, by force of personality, he has stubbornly hunted down his targets.

The drug gangs impose their own systems of justice, law and order, and taxation — all by force of arms.

The Houthi rebels and their allies have been trying to capture Aden for weeks but have been held back by the air strikes and by forces of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia.

And some yeses, by force of argument, might become I don't knows.