Sentence examples for be forced to recognize from inspiring English sources

In 1996, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which says no state can be forced to recognize gay marriages.

Will he someday be forced to recognize that in the end one does best to settle for the unmanufactured thrills thrown up by life?

Eventually, whether it is two months or two years, whoever is managing the Yankees might be forced to recognize Rodriguez's superiority at shortstop.

"No church is going to be forced to recognize gay marriage," said David M. Smith, a senior strategist and spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay advocacy organization.

I realize I am proposing the biggest controlled debt restructuring in history, and I expect none of these suggestions will be welcomed by banks, which would be forced to recognize their losses sooner rather than later.

This is how the argument goes, and it's a disconcerting one: the people are now so little to be trusted that they have to be forced to recognize, at gunpoint if necessary, their God-given liberty and their God–;[laughs] given capacity for self-rule.

After Darwin we have been forced to recognize new relatives hanging from the family tree.

The orchestra has been forced to recognize the limits of the developing medium.

The Ottomans were forced to recognize Greek autonomy (1829) and independence (1832).

Honorius was forced to recognize him as joint emperor in 409.

In 1187 he was forced to recognize the second Bulgarian empire.