Sentence examples for occasional force from inspiring English sources

Spain is a microcosm of Europe: an aspiration of unity, a fractious lot held together by law, commonality, and occasional force.

The formation of a new motor memory of novel forces may involve multiple processes working on multiple timescales [29]; our experimental design and trial-by-trial analysis of adaptation to occasional force pulses identifies the cognitive components of the fastest temporal processes of motor adaptation.

Con Ed survived the month without any blackouts or significant brownouts and only the occasional forced reduction of power supply, for which it thanked customers for suppressing the urge to crank up the air-conditioners.

Similarly, occasional forces of town guard and militia were fielded by some cities.

A 10cc syringe attached to the feeding tube sampled air with occasional forced expiratory maneuvers being undertaken (i.e. gentle squeezing of the rib cage).

But three titles and many near-M.V.P. awards later, he has become both the steadying hand and occasional explosive force behind a team in the midst of perhaps its last chance at its fifth N.B.A. championship, and its fourth with Parker at the point.

Not so easy for me, since my racing experience consists of one day at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving and occasional G-force forays on karting tracks and Interstate 95 exit ramps.

Western countries have shied away from sending their own troops into Somalia's morass, aside from the occasional special forces strike, like the one last month when American commandos swooped in and rescued two aid workers who had been kidnapped by a heavily armed gang.

Some Somali analysts are now contemplating a new approach known as "constructive disengagement," which calls for the international community to disentangle itself from Somali politics while continuing to provide humanitarian aid and conducting the occasional special forces raid against known terrorists.

A strategy of "constructive disengagement" — in which the international community would extricate itself from Somali politics, but continue to provide development and humanitarian aid and conduct the occasional special forces raid against the terrorists — would probably be enough to pull the rug out from under Al Shabab.

American officials who were once optimistic they could change Pakistani behavior through cajoling and large cash payments now accept a sober reality: as long as Pakistan sees its security under threat by India's far larger army, it will rely on militant groups like the Haqqanis, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba as occasional proxy forces.