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The phrase "overcome by force" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in contexts where someone or something is defeated or subdued through physical strength or power.
Example: "The rebels were ultimately overcome by force, leading to the restoration of the previous regime."
Alternatives: "subdued by power" or "defeated through strength."
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Tibetan resistance was overcome by force, the Dalai Lama fled to China, and the rough wooing ended in a treaty at Lhasa in 1904 between Britain and Tibet without Chinese adherence.
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Old alliances have foundered and new ones are emerging as governments grapple with, or are overcome by, forces of change.
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Straight from the start of her sermon on a Sunday afternoon in June, she looked nearly helpless, beyond self-management, truly overcome by a force coursing through her; she wiped tears from her eyes with a small square of white cloth.
Although each SNP locus provides much less precision than a typical microsatellite, this can be overcome by brute force if enough new independent loci can be developed.
When cell-surface adhesion forces were relatively weak in comparison with cell contractile forces, the cells reorganized into spheroids, while only monolayers were reported when cell-surface forces were not overcome by cell contractile forces.
The idea is that three teen-age boys in the Seattle area — one of whom, the intellectual nerd Andrew (Dane DeHaan), is his own obsessively self-documenting videographer — climb down into a strange pit and are overcome by a mysterious force that leaves them with the power of telekinesis.
One, enthralled by her boyfriend's best friend, is overcome by an irrepressible force and sinks her teeth into his arm.
The gleefully chauvinistic work depicts an icy China overcome by warm, Western force, and closes with the fantasy of a conquered culture celebrating its conquest.
Perhaps when the war is over, Yarmouk will come to be seen as an example of human compassion, where the pitilessness of war was overcome by the sheer force of human dignity.
His prose poem "Gossip" explains: "They thought me miserable because they couldn't imagine themselves behaving so badly out of weakness or choice, but only if they were overcome by a superior force...
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