Sentence examples for forcing a passage from inspiring English sources

Riders forcing a passage through a wall of fans is an eternal Tour image but the crowds have become increasingly large and unruly.

Forcing a passage through the crowd, they came up in great numbers, and desired the tribunes to defer polling till they had spoken what they had to say to the people.

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.

The Confederates tried to attack with horsemen in hopes of forcing a passage, but the Medinans were rigidly entrenched, preventing such a crossing.

From February 1915 this took the form of naval operations aimed at forcing a passage through the Dardanelles, but after several setbacks it was decided that a land campaign was also necessary.

Two police officers were called to force a passage for commuters.

Once the Soviets had forced a passage on the Karelian Isthmus, Finland's eventual collapse was certain.

Its captain attempted to force a passage through the Sunda Strait but the ship was struck by Japanese torpedoes.

A final attempt to force a passage up the Dardanelles in March ended in three allied battleships being sunk and three badly damaged.

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.

He then sailed back to Rhegium, and a little later forced a passage across with his entire fleet.