Sentence examples for was a forcible from inspiring English sources

By all accounts, Bodhidharma was a forcible, not to say willful, personality.

"This is a forcible peace that has been made at the point of a gun," he said.

Gitcho is a forcible presence who wakes most mornings before 5 for "boot camp" training at a North End gym.

A revolution is a forcible overthrow of an existing order, whereas a movement is a group of people with a common ideology getting together to achieve a goal.

And the last thing any of these magazines need in the current economic climate is a forcible reminder of the extent to which they rely on the resources of their freelance talent pool.

What she undergoes instead is a forcible immersion in Desmond's personal life, what with a wife and ex-wife of dramatic disposition, the old man's reiterated regrets for the woman he should have married, and unsatisfactory offspring about the place.

American global leadership is predicated on military might (that is a message in itself, like the Roman legions that assured the Pax Romana), great economic power and a moral compass that gives confidence to many countries that the U.S. is truly motivated to keep the peace, help nations in distress and be a forcible advocate for human rights across the globe.

Benjamin Brafman said: "This was not a forcible encounter … This case was treated as a crime when it was not".

Burglary is a felony; forcible touching is a misdemeanor.

R. (Bancoult) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2000), was a case concerning the forcible removal of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago from Diego Garcia and the prohibition of their return by the Government of the United Kingdom so that the United States could construct a large military base there.

The resolution does not say protect civilians from attack, but protect them from the threat of attack, so as long as the Libyan government maintains a fighting force and is maintaining a forcible stance then those forces are legitimate targets.