Example sentences of "use force " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Gallup poll published on January 15th showed 57% in favour of using force to expel Iraq from Kuwait , and 54% for Australia joining in the fighting under American command . |
| 2 | They were frequently imposed by colonial regimes using force where necessary . |
| 3 | In recent years , Cavagna in Milan has worked out the detailed mechanics of the process , using force plates and high-speed film to capture the instantaneous braking and acceleration of the lower limbs during a stride . |
| 4 | try to stop them sniffing — without using force |
| 5 | The paradox of using force to overcome force is here a real contradiction . |
| 6 | But , of course , the West was using force to prevent them going anywhere . |
| 7 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 8 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 9 | This has the apparently anomalous result that both the policeman and the defendant are using force lawfully . |
| 10 | But — by his own admission — he did n't relish using force . |
| 11 | They were accused of making unwarranted demands for £10 per week from the two restaurant owners in South Belfast and attempting to stop them running their business by using force and making threats or demands . |
| 12 | On Feb. 20 the Yugoslavian Collective State Presidency approved the " specific engagement " of army units in Kosovo , meaning that they were given orders to quash any unrest they found , using force if necessary . |
| 13 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 14 | On May 14 a joint communiqué was issued outlining the guiding principles for settling the demarcation of their common border , which included not using force to resolve the issue . |
| 15 | On April 3 , the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , said during an interview with the BBC that " I do n't think we can get into the business of using force … in order to impose a particular political answer on Iraq " . |
| 16 | Its most controversial element was a proposed ban on political strikes and on political rallies in working hours , with Pavlov suggesting that the introduction of a " special regime " in key industries might entail using force to break strikes . |
| 17 | But one day he could face the choice between using force in Eastern Europe and losing power in the Kremlin . |
| 18 | Accordingly , using force without threat is robbery , only because there must be menaces in blackmail . |
| 19 | He talked about using force but knew that such a step might provoke a greater crisis or might even break the loyalty of his army . |
| 20 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 21 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 22 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 23 | Joe Kennedy , a Democratic member of the House , is crafting a resolution that would commit America to exhaust sanctions before it used force in the Gulf — and suggests that sanctions should run for at least six months from the passing of the resolution . |
| 24 | He stressed that he never intended to have sex with her and said he never used force or inflicted injury on the girl . |
| 25 | They were therefore guilty of robbery when they used force seconds after seizing the property . |
| 26 | If the man uses force or inflicts emotional shock on his wife in order to obtain sex , he is liable to conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm or some other offence against the person . |
| 27 | ‘ A person is guilty of robbery if he steals , and immediately before or at the time of doing so , and in order to do so , he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force . |
| 28 | A husband who rapes his wife can be prosecuted for assault or an offence against the person if he uses force or injures her . |
| 29 | ( ii ) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual penetration . |
| 30 | ( ii ) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual contact . |