He was, in the fullforce of the words, a good man.
2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:45 from the start, inAnti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron[1], archived fromthe original on29 November 2024:
After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enoughforce that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission andencouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, andfull authority to stopany ship, ofany flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with[sic]no censure from the government.
1999 September 28, Mike Selvey, “Crenshaw vindicated by a chain reaction”, inThe Guardian[2]:
The Europeans tried, my goodness how they tried. But on the day the US proved too strong and too inspired. They were, dammit, just better. And when Leonard's putt dropped they clearly had theforce with them as well.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying aforce tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
Two forces acting upon the same point on an object will cancel out only if they have equal magnitude and opposite directions.
(mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
Heavier objects are those that are subject to more gravitational force.
(when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation ofunderlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
I believe that the main long-term force that guides a society's evolution is not the economy or the leaders, but the culture.
Some skeptics have attributed changing temperatures to forces out of our control, such as axial procession.
(countable) A group organized for the goal ofattacking,controling, orconstraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening hisforces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."
For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by theforce, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
Any large, organized group involved in a militaryengagement.
(in the singular or plural) Militarypersonnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, themilitary orpolice altogether.
After only a week, Japanese forces had captured Singapore from the British.
reinforcements grew the Americanforce in the area to 9,000
Roman forces were
(usually with "the", in the singular or plural)Synonym ofpolice force.
1880,[U.S.] House documents, page64:
Q. All the time that he was on theforce? A. I cannot say that; but there were men on with me when I was on theforce who were very good Republicans. Q. During all this time you have been on the police force?
(countable) Amagictrick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
(science fiction): Outside of fiction,the force may be used as an alternative to invokingluck,destiny, orGod. For example,the force was with him instead ofluck was on his side, ormay the force be with you instead ofmay God be with you.
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Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate whichforced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
2009 July 23, “All things to Althingi”, inThe Economist:
The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which hasforced the decision to apply to the EU.
2011 March 23, Tim Webb, Fiona Harvey,The Guardian:
Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would haveforced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.
The hourly Southampton to London Victoria service via Horsham has been axed, as has the direct Littlehampton-Bognor Regis service,forcing passengers to change [trains] at Barnham.
(transitive) Toconstrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.[from 16thc.]
1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay / That scarce the victorforced the steel away.
The comedian's jokes weren't funny, but Iforced a laugh now and then.
1982 December 4, Sharon Page, “R2N2 Conference: Revitalizing the Movement”, inGay Community News, volume10, number20, page 3:
Janet Tobacman of Woman Organized for Reproductive Choice (WORC) in Chicago and New Jewish Agenda stated, "R2N2 needs omre discussion and action around sexuality in general,"forcing a concern that had little discussion throughout the conference.
(transitive) To forciblyopen (a door, lock etc.).[from 17thc.]
I forgot my keys in and so we had toforce (open) the door.
For yf ye were suche fyfty as ye be / ye were not able to make resystence ageynst this deuyl / here lyeth a duchesse deede the whiche was the fayrest of alle the world wyf to syre Howel / duc of Bretayne / he hath murthred her inforcynge her / and has slytte her vnto the nauyl
a young woman not farre from mee had headlong cast her selfe out of a high window, with intent to kill herselfe, only to avoid the ravishment of a rascally-base souldier that lay in her house, who offered toforce her[…].
To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
(transitive,baseball) To create anout by touching abase in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of aball which has already touched the ground.
Jonesforced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.
(whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) totrump atrick byleading asuit that he/she does not hold.
(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
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La justice sans laforce est impuissante. Laforce sans la justice est tyrannique.
Justice withoutforce is powerless.Force without justice is tyrannical.
1897, Henri Poincaré, “Les idées de Hertz sur la mécanique [The ideas of Hertz on mechanics]”, inRevue générale des sciences pures et appliquées [General Review of Pure and Applied Sciences][4], volume 8, page734:
— Qu'est-ce que laforce ? C'est, répond Lagrange, une cause qui produit le mouvement d'un corps ou qui tend à le produire. — C'est, dira Kirchhoff, le produit de la masse par l'accélération. Mais alors, pourquoi ne pas dire que la masse est le quotient de laforce par l'accélération ?
"What isforce? It is," answers Lagrange, "a cause which produces the movement of a body or which tends to produce it." "It is," Kirchhoff will say, "the product of mass byacceleration." But then why not say that mass is the quotient offorce by acceleration?
