It struck with a force 185 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb, flattened 80 million trees and reduced hundreds of reindeer to charred carcasses.
It was exquisitely sensitive for so powerful an instrument, and I wondered what it sounded like when struck with force, by many and in unison.
Twenty-five banks failed in 2008, the year the financial crisis struck with force; only three failed in 2007.
One of the forces that plunged the country into a recession was the financial crisis that struck with force last fall and was the worst since the 1930s.
The plot, his sense of his parents' struggle to understand it, struck him with force.
The car was sitting in a ditch; it wasn't clear what it had struck with enough force to burst into flames.
The lightsaber you can strike with force Jump to media player The Star Wars inspired toy on show at CES can take a pounding but does not come cheap.
For the last decade, Rockstar has wielded a sledgehammer over public perceptions of what video games are or can be; now it has struck with merciless force.
Even at speed, it will roll over only if a wheel is tripped by some obstruction while cornering too fast, or, again, if it is struck with excessive force by another vehicle.
Whatever the object was, it apparently had struck with such force as to penetrate the shingle, three-quarter-inch plywood, eight inches of fibreglass insulation, and half-inch Sheetrock, with enough energy left over to shatter the tile and dent the wall.
A few weeks ago an attorney friend and I were lamenting inequity in justice and race issues in America when she mused, "If someone offered you $20 million to become black, would you do it?" The question struck with the force of a sledgehammer on a fly.
