Sentence examples for definition of forcible from inspiring English sources

Carol Tracy, the executive director of Woman's Law Project, which has long campaigned for the definition of "forcible rape" to be changed, welcomed Martinez's removal of the term.

Some of Trump's accusers describe acts that could have fallen under New York's definition of "forcible touching," a Class A misdemeanor; the statute of limitations for that crime is two years.

Maybe next time Hayden's on television, which will likely be tomorrow given his wall-to-wall media schedule, someone should read him the US Justice Department's official definition of "forcible rape": The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.

The new definition, which has been in the works for several months and was formally announced by the Obama administration on Friday, will replace a narrower definition of "forcible rape" with one that includes, among other things, forcible oral or anal penetration.

WASHINGTON — The federal government is changing its longstanding definition of "forcible rape" in compiling national crime statistics — expanding both the definition of victims, to include males, and the types of sexual assault that will be counted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Report.

The problem is that language simply doesn't appear in the definition of "forcible oral sodomy," which is classified as its own distinct crime.

The legal loophole is actually pretty easy to explain: In Oklahoma, there are five very specific definitions of forcible oral sodomy, and none of them mention alcohol or drugs.

Akin, Ryan et al. have made it their business to designate which rapes are legitimate, joining up to push Orwellian legislation last year to narrow the definition of rape to "forcible rape".

The bill, sponsored by Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, has drawn fire over language that undercuts a longstanding exemption on the ban on using federal money for abortions in the case of rape or incest; the measure narrows the definition of rape to "forcible rape," a term that his office has never defined.

When Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) incited outrage by proposing to confine the definition of rape to instances of "forcible rape" in H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" Act, it was a little-known fact FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) had been using this classification since 1929 -- making the definition, as Ms. Magazine points out, almost as old as sliced bread.

The FBI's definition of rape only included forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina until the Obama administration changed it in 2012.