Sentence examples for forced to forsake from inspiring English sources

The songs describe a young man who is forced to forsake his family after falling in love with a beautiful gypsy girl.

In the premiere video of an online series that had its debut on Wednesday, the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim discussed a bit of history he was forced to forsake when writing the lyrics for "West Side Story".

Here Ms. Lyall is on recognizable territory — not because England is a nation of McCrums, but because whenever she scrutinizes her husband (with charming affection each time) she is forced to forsake the general for the particular.

The family found some sort of solace in the village of Walberswick on the Suffolk coast which, with its grassy sand dunes, large skies and a home they called "Hidden House", reminded them of the beloved Baltic island they were forced to forsake.

After health problems forced Andy Warhol to forsake his beloved chocolate in the early 70's, he resorted to making art with it.

It was a fate that was bestowed, forcing one to forsake certain pleasures in the world — he thought — in order to become someone who knew a little too much about reality.

They forced Mr. Mubarak to forsake re-election.

Even the docile mainstream media were forced to devote more coverage to the opposition, lest readers forsake them.

Rogoff says that, if the markets suddenly forsook UK government debt "UK leaders would have been forced to close massive budget deficits almost overnight".

But relocation forces Crushpad to forsake its urban identity, and risk losing the local customers who had bought into it.

Legacy publishers and broadcasters are being forced to decide whether to contribute their expensively produced content to the master apps — or risk being marginalized as consumers forsake their carefully tended digital brands for the convenient and compelling aggregation platforms fielded by the tech giants.