Sentence examples for past force from inspiring English sources

But since Mr. Lee's conservative administration took power in 2008, the law has regained some of its past force.

The officials pledged to avoid mistakes of past force reductions, when the Army fielded what were called "hollow" units without enough people and equipment to actually carry out their missions.

And you can add Alabama Shakes to my list of groups who rather than simply falling into line with the past force us to redraw the lines between the new and the old as we've come to know them.

In times of austerity, past force levels required to fight two medium wars nearly simultaneously, or more recently to win one war and fight a holding action in another theater, can no longer be sustained and never have been really needed to ensure U.S. security.

In the recent past, force tasks in dynamic conditions have been performed sporadically, such as the cycling experiments by Pozzo et al. (2004) and Farina et al. (2004).

Congress has in the past forced the military to buy weapons that it did not want.

If the Assad government fell, the Kurds would likely press for reparations for past forced "Arabization" of Kurdish land.

I have in the past "forced" my own college students to memorize a poem or passage they love.

Nothing much happens, but daily chatter contains echoes of the past: forced assimilation of Romanians, the Holocaust.

But an angry ghost from the hospital's past forces Sadie to confront her own demons, and Jed to uncover a brutal truth to save her from danger.

Nadal, of course, has the strength to counter that, and with his high-bouncing lefty forehand he'd been able to take the backhand side away from Federer in the past, forcing him to hit defensive slices.