Sentence examples for military force force from inspiring English sources

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's responsibilities include both advising and assisting the president on the use of military force (force employment policy) and working with Congress on the development of military force (force development policy).

Kennedy, contemplating the abyss, through a complex series of signals and brandishing of military forces, forced the Soviets to back down, publicly dismantling launch sites in Cuba and returning the nuclear missiles to the Soviet Union.

It was forced abortion, military forces forced my abortion.

Did "counter-force" always mean military force?

All-volunteer force (AVF), military force composed solely of volunteers, without resorting to a military draft.

In his furious Munich speech of 2007, in the midst of the Iraq War, Putin spoke about "an almost uncontained hyperuse of force — military force — in international relations, force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts".

A country faces few decisions as grave as using military force, even when that force is limited.

They are in fact imposed by force -- superior Israeli military force -- on Palestinian territory.

Equally, we are today facing an enemy which ultimately will not be defeated by military force, but by moral force.

Shibley Telhami ignores history when he asserts that "democracy cannot be imposed through military force, even if force is used successfully to oust antidemocratic dictators".

British conservatives advocated for a long time that only more military force (including torture) would force the Irish Republican Army to its knees.