"It would appear," Dallas wrote, "that the Judicial power of the United States has been resisted, the liberty of the press has been suspended, & the Consul and subjects of a friendly Government have been exposed to great inconvenience, by an exercise of Military force and command".
Neverbend submits, vainly protesting against this exercise of brute force, and is informed that the island is to be made a Crown colony again, with a new governor to ensure that the law of the Fixed Period, unacceptable to the mother country, is repealed, while he himself must go into exile in England.
Mr. Lewis reportedly told Mr. Cheney that the Arab world looked down on weakness and respected the exercise of force.
He maintained that the torture of Ealdama was "a legitimate exercise of force under the laws of war," being "justified by military necessity".
This experience was central to co-founding Promise, a new model of care with the premise that the exercise of force is incompatible with a vision of recovery at its heart.
The rough idea is that state action is an unjustifiable exercise of force by an unjustifiably privileged few unless those who wield state power have been authorised to do so by those most likely to be affected by it.
That's why we have a Constitution: to restrain the government's exercise of force so we can be a free people.
The reason that the culture-at-large tends to view this weakness as virtuous is because it often demonstrates an exercise of force that has specific results.
I opposed the war in Iraq precisely because I believe that we must exercise restraint in the use of military force, and always consider the long-term consequences of our actions.
More major exercises and shows of force from NATO in areas bordering Russia now appear all but inevitable, building on November's "Steadfast Jazz" Baltic drills.
