WHAT, EXACTLY, did a 7-year-old Congolese girl do to the United States to deserve the trauma that has been visited upon her — including forcible separation from her mother — by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and her immigration agents?
It's ironic, Kelly said, that a voluntary resignation would take place after her own forcible removal from the church against her will.
The voice Cleave has created for her illustrates the forcible dislocations of a globalized world.
However, after her fortune is told by her mysterious neighbours, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, and her life is said to be in grave danger, Coraline is given something to ponder.
The old definition — "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will" — covered only forcible penetration of a woman's vagina by a penis, and excluded many other kinds of sexual assaults that count as rape under more modern definitions.
Linda Vester, a former NBC correspondent, told The Post that legendary anchor Tom Brokaw made unwanted advances toward her on two occasions in the 1990s, including a forcible attempt to kiss her.
The author dispenses wickedly funny guidance on what to do, for example, in the event of a playmate having a fancier doll than you ("You ought not to attempt a forcible swap with her, unless your conscience would justify you in it, and you know you are able to do it").
Courteau observed that although Little Bee learns English from newspapers she acquires at the English detention centre, her reference points are still Nigerian, and thus through her narrative voice Cleave "illustrates the forcible dislocations of a globalized world".
One former patient I met, who had been detained in Friern many times, described receiving forcible injections that left her bruised and traumatised.
She was referring to Eldridge Bonds, known as Bubba, who in 2003 pleaded no contest to forcible sexual battery of her 14-year-old daughter in the field house of South Panola High School, where he was a popular assistant coach.
