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Example sentences for "force against"

  • The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.

  • Suppose them intended to operate as a force against Canada.

  • On the 24th of the ensuing November, he resorts to the same language--"in violating the rights of all nations England has united them all by a common interest, and it is for them to have recourse to force against her.

  • But the radical objection to any plan of a negative on State legislation, as a legislative power of the general government, was, that it would not in fact dispense with the use of force against a State in the last resort.

  • At his suggestion, a clause in Governor Randolph's plan authorizing the use of force against a delinquent member of the confederacy was laid aside, in order that a system might be framed which would render it unnecessary.

  • In consequence of laws still in force against them, several thousand American Loyalists found it necessary to abandon their country.

  • The garrison was compelled to yield to the prodigious superiority of force against them, after a most heroic defence, in which no less than three hundred of the French were killed and wounded.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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