Sentence examples for take the force of from inspiring English sources

A girl is doing herself "damage" and a young couple has a baby — Thorn rounds them all up and takes care of them in one phrase: "I stand in front of you, I'll take the force of the blow / protection".

"He told me to snap, I snapped," O'Sullivan said, even though the wrist's ability to take the force of the snap is one of the big hurdles Pennington faces.

The major question facing administration officials at this point is whether persuasion alone will bring about a peaceful transfer of the boy next week, or whether it will take the force of law to overcome defiance among the Miami relatives and their crowds of supporters.

Take the force of right-wingers upholding community standards who are determined to defend local control of the public airwaves; combine that with the force of lefties eager to maintain diversity of opinion in local media; add in the independent voters' mistrust of media manipulation; then let all these people have access to their representatives by e-mail and fax, and voilà!

I'm the sort of friend that will stand in front of you and take the force of the blow, go to jail, give up my last dollar…there are few limits to what I would do for a real friend.

Then he would attempt a big spin and land hard on the water and sometimes his head would take the force of the fall.

It took the force of the earthquake to dislodge what must have been thousands of tonnes of rock and ice.

Heads went, but here, even when Dylan Hartley was taken off on a stretcher 12 minutes from the end after his head took the force of the 24st prop Uini Atonio, leaders abounded.

At the moment the shell exploded, Mr. Wallace was gathering ammunition and had his back turned, a position that saved his life, as the other three men took the force of the explosion straight in their chests.

But, by jarring it, by taking the force of a whack, some of that fluid has come out of the joint and into the cyst sac.

The end of the 5th metacarpal takes the force of the impact and breaks at its neck and angulates towards the palm creating a dorsal bump (Figure 3).