Sentence examples for were forcibly turned from inspiring English sources

A few boats were forcibly turned back, but deterrence seemed to have done most of the work.

An important site in a tribal area of the northwest — the tomb of Haji Sahib of Turangzai, a Sufi persecuted under British colonial rule for his social work — has been forcibly turned into a Taliban headquarters.

One married mother of three, who lived for 20 years as a boy and a young man before she was forcibly turned into a woman and married off to a man of her parents' choice, confirmed to me that there is both an element of resistance as well as confusion that remains from having grown up on the other side.

Millions of people who are perfectly healthy, who are not sick but are looking for help, will be forcibly turned into customers for the pharmaceutical industry.

Generally, a perturbation of the system (such as gene knockout, overexpression or drug treatment) is performed which forces a node (i.e., a gene) on a regulatory network graph to be forcibly turned on or turned off.

After the battle, the residents of Arnhem and its surrounding towns and villages were forcibly evicted from their homes, allowing the Germans to turn the north bank of the Rhine into a heavily defended line.

In the Seventies, inhabitants were forcibly removed from the islands by our government and the largest atoll, Diego Garcia, turned into a US military base.

Unless the guerrillas are forcibly disarmed and turned away from the border, their actions could embroil NATO in an unwanted new war with Belgrade.

Some were forcibly evicted.

They were forcibly "outed".

Some young people were forcibly conscripted.