Sentence examples for maintained by force from inspiring English sources

The comfortable gentility of bourgeois Odessa is, in consequence, an illusion maintained by force.

No longer would Ethiopia be maintained by force; rather, it would be a voluntary federation of its many peoples.

The cruelty of this notion of military discipline, derived from long tradition and maintained by force, is perhaps less startling than the sympathy Mr. Eastwood extends to his characters, whose sacrifices are made in the service of a cause that the American audience knows to be bad as well as doomed.

This trade monopoly was maintained by force on the part of the Itza, who vigorously ensured that the Manche Ch'ol remained subservient to them.

At a time when use of overwhelming force has cost Israel dearly in its world standing, what will it take for Israelis to rethink the idea that what they have can only be maintained by force?

It is maintained by forces either side of the demilitarized zone [DMZ], the world's most heavily fortified border.

The regular structure of a crystalline solid is maintained by forces of attraction among its individual atoms, which oscillate slightly about their average positions in the crystal lattice.

The scientific model of the universe begins to look eerily like that expressed by Hindu astronomers over 3,000 years ago, in which the cycles of the universe are measured in aeons 1.28tn years long, reality is maintained by the force of Vishnu, and all things are created by Brahma and destroyed by Shiva.

The pages are written and maintained by a force of 85,000 volunteers across the world, and hundreds of the most die-hard Wikipedians gathered in Washington DC this week for the annual Wikimania conference.

Some extended car warranty programs, particularly those maintained by dealers, force you to go their repair shop.

The city (and the territory) are no more than an exercise field for various options maintained by different forces, often with alternative objectives; it is indeed due to the presence of opposed forces that the city, in general, and up to now, has never completely responded to the interests of one party.