Sentence examples for president force from inspiring English sources

He invoked the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, a law unused since the 1970s, which lets the president force people back to work if a strike or a management lock-out "imperils national health or safety".

If we consider that the purpose of the Federal Election Commission and the debates is to have the two candidates not to go at each other's throat, but to explain their differences in the way they intend to conduct the country as our next President, force is to admit that it never happened.

That is why the Russian president forced Mr Yanukovych's hand.

On December 29th the Greek parliament failed to elect a president, forcing an early snap election to be called for January 25th.

On March 25th Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's president, forced Ihor Kolomoisky, a business magnate, to resign from his post as governor of the central region of Dnipropetrovsk.

William Henry Harrison gave the longest speech of any American president, forcing his audience to endure an hour and 45 minutes of snow-chilled tedium.

They included Fernando Collor, a former president forced out in 1992 over corruption allegations, who failed to make a comeback as governor of his home state of Alagoas.

I am trying to imagine a white president forced to show his papers at a national news conference, and coming up blank.

Last year Néstor Kirchner, Ms Fernández's husband and predecessor as president, forced the funds to dump some of their foreign investments.

In 2013, the former armed forces chief Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (now president) forced through an anti-demonstration law that has allowed for the arrests of peaceful protesters.

Museveni's words have gone viral, with thousands poking fun at the president, forcing his press secretary, Don Wanyama, to attempt some nifty damage limitation on Facebook.