Sentence examples for changed by force from inspiring English sources

"Something very dramatic has happened: for the first time since the war a European border has been changed by force.

Are we willing to accept that the borders of a small country can be unilaterally changed by force?

But since shortly after World War II, virtually no borders have changed by force, and no member of the United Nations has disappeared through conquest.

Annexing chunks of someone else's territory seems a throwback to a darker age; indeed this is the first time Europe's borders have been changed by force since 1945.

Mark Walford London Re Crimea, is it "the first time Europe's borders have been changed by force since 1945" (Donald and Vladimir, G2, 21 November)?

He may well be right to hold back, and limit Britain's strategic goals, scrapping the idea that the country could be changed by force into a stable democracy.

It was a powerful message for a people whose world was being changed by forces that seemed beyond their control.

Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008 violated established precedent in seeking to change by force borders of the former Soviet states.

This, too, would change by force the way these operations function.

"In accepting the annexation of Crimea, it would be the first time since the second world war that borders have been changed by sheer force," Scheffer said.

Loan servicing companies complain that bureaucratic requirements are constantly changed by Washington, forcing them to overhaul an already byzantine process that involves nearly 250 steps.