Sentence examples for forcing a passage through 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This gives rise to a passage-through-resonance phenomenon in the flight of finned projectiles.