Sentence examples for force a passage from inspiring English sources
Two police officers were called to force a passage for commuters.
Strenuous efforts were made to release her; on 14 February Shackleton ordered men on to the ice with ice-chisels, prickers, saws and picks, to try and force a passage, but the labour proved futile.
Despite 14 arctic whaling voyages, including six overwinterings, she had not been built to withstand sustained ice pressure, and lacked the engine power to force a passage through the ice.
In the early hours of the morning of 19 September, an attack was launched on a narrow front between the river and the railway line, in order to force a passage through to the bridge.
United States Navy historian Frank Chadwick believed that de Grasse could have thwarted the British fleet simply by staying put; his fleet's size would have been sufficient to impede any attempt by Graves to force a passage through his position.
With the bridge considered important by the advancing US Eighth Army, the Australians were determined to a force a passage across the river.
Once the Soviets had forced a passage on the Karelian Isthmus, Finland's eventual collapse was certain.
Riders forcing a passage through a wall of fans is an eternal Tour image but the crowds have become increasingly large and unruly.
Shortage of fuel, however, slowed the pace of Kleist's subsequent southeastward progress through the Caucasian mountains; and, after forcing a passage over the Terek River near Mozdok early in September, he was halted definitively just south of that river.
At times the ricocheting between ancient Chinese and contemporary Western idioms seems forced: a passage of Chinese operatic singing, accompanied by a battery of Chinese percussion instruments, breaks off, and we get a burst of cutting-edge dissonance from the impressive Ensemble Modern, conducted by Ed Spanjaard.
The Confederates tried to attack with horsemen in hopes of forcing a passage, but the Medinans were rigidly entrenched, preventing such a crossing.
