Sentence examples for force onto from inspiring English sources

With his elbows locked, arms straight, and shoulders directly over the victim, the rescuer uses his upper body to apply a perpendicularly directed force onto the victim's sternum.

In recent years the Islamic group has grafted a new image as an above-ground political force onto its 1980's past.

Whatever the final government brief says, Robert M. Chesney, a University of Texas law professor, said the lawsuit might force onto the table greater discussion of what the administration is doing and why it believes its actions are lawful.

Naturally, if you eat broccoli raw, steamed, or even deep-fried, it's going to seem unappetizing, the kind of thing the government would have to force onto your plate.

Page A6 LEFTIST PARTY RISES IN GREECE The collapse of Greece's dominant parties in Sunday's elections swept a new political force onto the scene here: the Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza, a pro-euro yet anti-austerity party that has Greece's creditors trembling with its calls for the country to reject its current loan agreement and nationalize the banks.

Somali officials have likewise denied that they knew anything about the Kenyan offensive before it began, though it would be politically uncomfortable for them to publicly invite a foreign force onto their soil given the anger many Somalis felt toward Ethiopia's incursion into the country to oust Islamists in 2006.

Several paintings are forced onto curved walls.

So Sir Howard was forced onto the defensive.

As boats get scarcer, ever more people are forced onto each of them, often at gunpoint.

She was told to sign a form renouncing her citizenship and was forced onto a plane.

By 1875 the Comanche had been forced onto a reservation in present-day Oklahoma.