Sentence examples for has a certain force from inspiring English sources

Among some, that has a certain force.

On this approach, a prima facie duty becomes what has been called a "pro tanto" one — a duty that has a certain force, but may not prevail (see Hurley 1989).

And Moretti's approach has a certain moral force, too.

For example, if a property is defined by relativizing metaphysical necessity to a class of propositions S, then the fact that a proposition P has that property consists in the fact that the connection between S and P has a certain grade of modal force.

Each regional force has a certain degree of autonomy.

Despite the lack of empirical support, Kymlicka (2015), believes this argument has a certain bite and, perhaps, at the force of being repeated in political rhetoric, it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy, or feed into welfare chauvinism.

The descriptions of the city, in keeping with the spell that Allbee casts over the book, have a certain sulfurous force.

He was never self-aware enough to be insightful, but his committed, relentlessly upbeat charisma and ambition had a certain brute force.

JA Bayona's recent movie A Monster Calls – about a child retreating from emotional pain into CGI fantasy – had a certain storytelling force.

"A lot of the times, I will go into trance-like states for hours, walking around the city collecting objects that have a certain resonating force around them.

As Don Chaney, who used to play for the University of Houston, remembers, "Watching that team get off the bus, watching that team walk on the floor, they had a certain strut that forced you not to like them".