Sentence examples for applied by force from inspiring English sources

When secularisation has been applied by force, it has provoked a fundamentalist reaction – and history shows that fundamentalist movements which come under attack invariably grow even more extreme.

Most famous for placing a poisonous snake in the mailbox of an attorney who opposed it, Synanon was founded by an AA member who believed that the steps needed to be applied by force and that people with addiction needed to be broken down completely before they could recover.

Dividing cells are substantially more resistant to high forces applied by force spectroscopy than are nondividing cells, suggesting that their membranes have changed to adapt to mechanical stress during division.

Mr. Bradley's lethargic demeanor and laid-back campaigning style looked increasingly like indifference, and the vigor of Mr. McCain turned ever more vinegary under the relentless pressure, in the form of attack ads, applied by forces allied with Mr. Bush.

In the second approach, a survival cutoff time was applied by forcing the predicted survival curve to 0 at different time points (i.e., 5, 10 or 15 years) to limit the effect of the long tail of the log-logistic or log-normal distribution.

The excitation force was applied by a force impact hammer of Brüel & Kjær A8202 type.

However, under external forces applied by an atomic force microscope or by a spinning disc device causing shear forces, the mutant caused stronger cell adhesion than the wild-type integrin.

Grasp synthesis algorithms take into account the following basic properties: Disturbance resistance : a grasp can resist disturbances in any direction when object immobility is ensured, either by finger positions (form closure) or, up to a certain magnitude, by the forces applied by the fingers (force closure) (Bicchi 1995 ; Rimon and Burdick 1996 ).

Disturbance resistance: a grasp can resist disturbances in any direction when object immobility is ensured, either by finger positions (form closure) or, up to a certain magnitude, by the forces applied by the fingers (force closure) (Bicchi 1995; Rimon and Burdick 1996).

The study was also undertaken to understand the criteria applied by police forces to differentiate a crime from an incident.

For example, an object suspended on a vertical spring scale experiences the force of gravity acting on the object balanced by a force applied by the "spring reaction force" which equals the object's weight.