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Example sentences for "brute force"

  • The feats of Hercules, filling the fable and mythology of early Greece, were triumphs of brute force.

  • He next proposes an International Court of Judicature, with power to report its opinion, and to circulate it in each nation, and, after a certain delay, to put a contumacious nation under the ban.

  • With real Peace, these would be abandoned.

  • He is a believer in the sword and the bayonet--in brute force.

  • Should we wait and crush by brute force or should we prevent?

  • There is another thing; do you want a Government of law or of brute force?

  • Let the rich, let the educated, govern the people by moral suasion and by example and by kindness, and not by brute force.

  • We met in Burgundy an honest wench, though over free for my palate, a chambermaid, had made havoc of all these zanies, droll by brute force.

  • Moreover, souls will not be saved by brute force," said Clement.

  • Many Socialists, seeing the enemy rather in the State than in private capital, express their passionate hatred of the State: "The State at present is simply a huge machine for robbing and slave-driving the poor by brute force.

  • Suppose the capitalist attempts to stifle the revolution in blood; suppose he calls upon the army to crush the revolutionary working class by brute force.

  • Law is only a masked form of brute force.

  • Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

  • Amid the cruelties of those times, when long ages of violence and revolution had given an excessive preponderance to brute force, what could be expected from governments incessantly menaced with such imminent danger?

  • And what is the latter but a matchless pæan in stone to Divine Wisdom, as the conqueror of brute force?

  • They agree to abandon the methods of brute force in the adjustment of their differences, and adopt those of civilization.

  • When he enters into the free government he does not surrender that right, but agrees to exercise it, not by brute force, but by the ballot, by his individual voice in making the laws that dispose of, control and regulate those rights.

  • Czarism ruled by brute force, and the methods which it developed and used with success have been adopted by the Bolsheviki and perfected by them.

  • Every church in power has appealed to brute force, to the sword, for the purpose of sustaining its creed.

  • And yet the ignorant bigots of this world have been trying for thousands of years to rule the minds of men by brute force.

  • Statutes passed for the purpose of enabling man to enslave his fellow-man, resulted from a conspiracy entered into by the representatives of brute force.

  • Cruelty, tyranny, brute force, do not and can not by any possibility better the heart of man.

  • The ruler was clever enough to provide himself with a moral right to his exercise of brute force, by inventing a divine origin for his person and power, and making worship of his person an essential tenet of the national religion.

  • Moral conduct would be intelligible if the community were always ready with means of coercion and could constrain the individual by brute force to place its interest before his own pleasure.

  • Everywhere in actual life, the neglect of the Ideal means worship of brute force, cowardly acquiescence in the existing fact, the absence of all striving for a better state.

  • His whole soul was possessed by the passion to protest on to the end against the triumph of brute force.

  • At times indeed he was miserable and pessimistic as of old, brooding over lost friendships, chafing at the triumph of brute force in Italy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brute animals; brute force; but owing; dans les; divine origin; early education; foreign trade; formerly mentioned; gloomy silence; great circle; had received; illustrious friend; little snow; patrol leader; point where; seemed natural; sound philosophy; springs from; steady hand; still the; supernatural beings; uniform motion; vote shall