Sentence examples for half the force from inspiring English sources

Double the distance, half the force.

Half the force died in the mountains and deserts en route; the rest were badly defeated in battle.

About half the force, amounting to most of the combat-capable troops in the 60,000-strong army, is squatting in Maiduguri.Government officials insist that Nigeria does not face an existential crisis but rather struggles to communicate its successes abroad.

The worst hazards--defined as a 10% chance of ground accelerations exceeding half the force of gravity within the next 50 years--exist in southern California, southeastern Hawaii, Iceland, Taiwan, Turkey, and the seismic collision zone between India and China, says seismologist Kaye Shedlock of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado.

Half the force went via the prepared tunnels and half crossed the exposed ground between the trench lines.

These units were deployed throughout the country, with the main concentrations in Shaba Region (approximately half the force).

Nonspherical oscillations appear as a parametric instability and display subharmonic behavior: they oscillate at half the forcing frequency, which was fixed at 1.7 MHz in this study.

In terms of force: surface tension \gamma of a liquid is one-half the force per unit length required to keep still a movable side of a frame over which the liquid is stretched (say, into a thin film).

Today, nearly half of the force is black, Hispanic or Asian.

Over the next five years, more than half of the force's 2,100 captains and lieutenants will be eligible to retire.

Photos posted on the Web site of an Egyptian newspaper showed that the bus had been broken in half by the force of the crash.