Sentence examples for islands force from inspiring English sources

Beyond that point, granite rocks and islands force the water into a series of rapids; for millennia, the spot marked Egypt's southern frontier with its rivals, the Nubians.

The allied advance on Japan's home islands forced Tokyo's surrender, but China's resistance tied down millions of Japanese soldiers.

Originally expected by the JTWC to pass to the east of Okinawa Island, a subtropical high-pressure ridge south of the main Japanese islands forced the storm to take a more westward track, pushing it towards Taiwan.

The police from the mainland were coming to assist the token island force, which after all consisted of only two men: the twins who moonlighted as Dick's gardeners, in fact.

Following the broadcast of the fourth midseason premiere, Lindelof further confirmed that this island force prevents Ben and Widmore from dying.

Our previous policy was based on squeezing people on the island, forcing an uprising.

In 1790 a slave uprising on the island forced her to return to Paris, which was then in the throes of the Revolution.

The iceberg is jammed up against the northern coast of the island, forcing breeding penguins to cross it to reach the sea and food for their young.

Their grandparents languished on Sakhalin, a former penal island, forced for decades to work here as "the last prisoners of World War II".

An eight-year-old girl has died after being swept out to sea off Taiwan as typhoon Soudelor bore down on the island, forcing thousands to flee and troops to be placed on standby, officials said on Friday.

The storm washed out the only bridge linking the village to the rest of the island, forcing rescue officials to rely on helicopters to drop in supplies and ferry out survivors.