How To Use Forced In A Sentence

Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.

By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
Smith enforced a highly unpopular no-guns policy in the cowtown, and for the most part, made the law stick by beating the hell out of people with his bare hands. The Four Toughest Men of the Old West
If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [TN: Looks like the Greek 'phi']. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars
The parallelisms are reinforced by frequent alliteration, indicated by italics.
A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
If forced to eject from their aircraft, they are taught to lie still once they land. Times, Sunday Times
They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
The International Labour Organisation identifies the following factors that indicate forced labour.
Your scribe's eyes were also taken with a beautiful Mosquito and I was forced to reflect how ‘right’ these warbirds look in the sky.
Vulnerable people who have committed no crime and pose no threat to society are regularly forced to wait in bare cells before they get specialist treatment.
Survivors were forced to bury the dead in mass graves. Times, Sunday Times
The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
By then though, it was too late and the story had been twisted so far out of recognition that the forced references to things like Namek, Oozaru, and Roshi's pervertedness just seemed out of place and stupid. Anime Nano!
As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
They glimpsed each other across grocery counters and in the forced intimacy of domestic service now gone out of style.
Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
But the matron still expected me to work and I was forced to hop around the wards tending to my patients.
Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned.
She questioned the authenticity of the contracts the two fighters signed, saying that one alleged he was forced to sign a blank contract.
It used to be that homeowners would in effect be forced to save as they paid back the principal on their mortgage loan.
Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
She was forced to scrub floors with bleach. The Sun
The Parachute Regiment could be forced to admit women.
Besides being the colour of pants worn during training and performing, red trousers symbolize the indentured servitude of children who were bound by contract and often forced to live and train at these schools.
The ballooning cost to taxpayers of retirement benefits for public sector employees has forced the Conservatives to promise action. Times, Sunday Times
After losing this decisive battle, the general was forced to concede.
He is known for bringing a lawsuit against Japanese corporations for forced labor during WWII.
Taken from their families and forced to live in "white" orphanages, three mixed-race aborigine children escape, traveling 1500 miles back home, using the title fence as their guide. Cinematical
I don't imagine cows much like being stunned with airguns, or chickens living in cages that deform their bodies, being forced to lay eggs until they die. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
The vice-president was forced to take up the reins of office.
The blinding midday heat had forced the people to retire to their huts. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
He is determined to see the Act enforced more stringently.
Judges were in open revolt after being forced to free more dangerous criminals because of the cells shortage. The Sun
Everyone who uses those arguments has already assumed the longterm disfranchisement and marginalization of that majority of the Palestinian people forced to live in complete exile from their homeland for, in many cases, the past 60 years ... Charlottesville Blogs
JFK is forced to handle political dealings, serial killing gangs and defend the isolated building from a nuclear strike.
It forced it to consider more carefully the preferences of the average viewer, to become more responsive to viewers. The Media in Britain Today
The government may finally find itself forced to address a subject that it has previously found uncomfortable. Times, Sunday Times
The landlord could be forced to pay compensation equal to three times the sum of the deposit. Times, Sunday Times
A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.
The tribunal heard she was forced to share her post with the man covering for her. The Sun
Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change lyrics, 'sanitize' album covers, removed certain 'objectionable' magazines from its racks, and generally cultivated its own corporate sense of what the public should or shouldn't see. Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight with Union
But rising gas prices in the 1970s forced the corporation to abandon the project.
Links had been established between car exhaust and headaches, cancer and various respiratory problems, yet the automotive industry of the day, kicking and screaming, had to be forced to add a blowby tube. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
She has spent so much time in there, her entourage have been forced to speak to her stylist and hairdresser to find out how she is. The Sun
While the generally liberal-leaning U.S. foreign policy establishment was quick to equate Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's
He forced them to open the safe and emptied it of cash, plus expensive watches and prescription drugs. The Sun
Companies have been forced into a greater orientation to the market.
Sunday was no exception as Bell was in the thick of Walter's four bobbles and was credited with a forced fumble.
Freire has been forced to admit that his practice can only really work if other conditions are also present.
The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
While there is a legal working age of eighteen, this is not enforced, and many children are engaged in farm work and street vending.
We were forced to come down in a field.
Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
By 924 the Franks were forced to grant the Danes the districts of Bayeux, Exmes and Sees, and in 933 the Cotenin and Avranchin.
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
Ministers are yet to confirm whether all drivers renewing their licences will be forced to answer. Times, Sunday Times
Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
That at the heart of it is an international comity, reinforced perhaps by international law, that we respect each other's right to govern the internal economy of their ships.
Male pride forced him to suffer in silence.
In "Sunset Park," Auster is more interested in the neighborhood's vast semi-industrial stretches peppered with nondescript houses, all the better to endow the proceedings with an enforced sense of dreariness. Paul Auster Paints a Dreary Picture In 'Sunset Park'
To prevent such an assault, defenders were forced to attack the siege engines or their operators to prevent a breach in their fortifications.
In the meantime, private-equity companies are being forced to sit tight, in the absence of any sales or acquisitions. Times, Sunday Times
The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter.
The terminal was constructed of reinforced concrete.
The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
Unless perhaps the sixth year of the reign of Ezekias, in which Samaria was taken, they think is here called his infancy, that is, the infancy of his reign, not of his age; which even a fool must see to be hard and forced. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
The guns were set inside of hills, beneath reinforced concrete bomb shields, and concealed behind immense iron firing ports.
And of course we will conveniently forget that we forced him to hurry his conclusions and abandon the meticulousness with which it is necessary to proceed when searching for the truth.
War, famine and oppression have forced people in the region to flee from their homes.
Three years of huge losses forced the bank to seek a government bailout.
The dragon roared and forced its claws in and ripped its hole wider in an attempt to force its way into the town.
With winter coming on, Napoleon finds his invasion stalled and he is forced to retreat from Russia.
An anti-runway warhead which is equipped with a delayed action fuse has the capability of penetrating reinforced concrete runways to a depth of nearly 0.5m.
I have actually heard one of the co-leaders of the Greens say that we should not be allowed to drive to the corner dairy - we should be forced to walk.
We have forgotten how important enforced isolation is in the control of infectious disease. Times, Sunday Times
In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours.
It was in this fortalice that Kornati fisherman left money for fish tax and the hard lifestyle of a fisherman forced them to build settlements on the nearby island of Piskera.
Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik. The Pacha of Many Tales
In addition the hall has been soundproofed and reinforced and new comfortable seating replaces the old-style red velvet covered models of yesteryear.
The newspaper was forced to publish a retraction of its allegations.
Her presence and nurturance literally restore Okonkwo to life in the wake of Ikemefuna's death and his forced, seven-year exile in Mbanta.
But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
It was an enforced absence from work, but at least it gave me a little time to catch my breath before the final push.
We had a high opinion of his mechanical genius, and generally held that the Chief ‘knew something bad of him,’ and on pain of divulgence enforced Phil to be his bondsman. Reprinted Pieces
In the absence of clear evidence that a spouse intends to sell or dispose of an asset or will be forced to do so, a court should not grant a deduction for notional sale or disposition costs.
Her experience as Ms. Rain reinforced the need to choose parts wisely. Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
Some time later he experienced hard times and was forced to sell some of his land.
Boats fostered unusually intimate encounters because of the enforced idleness of travel and because of their physical isolation.
But they are not being forced to stay in this desolate place against their will.
Many families are forced to buy used clothing at the markets; children typically wear T-shirts, shorts, and loose cotton overshirts for everyday wear.
The group also was able to include a hydronic heating system, which is healthier for a home's inhabitants but usually much more expensive than forced-air heat.
The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
He is then framed for a murder and is forced to go on the run, being chased by spies and the police.
_merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
They were forced to cancel the concert when the conductor became ill.
April 21 -- German troops in Kamerun have been forced by allied forces to retreat from the plateau in the centre of the colony; seat of Government has been transferred to Jaúnde; allied troops have forced a passage across the Kele River; British troops have taken possession of the Ngwas New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
If a man forced you buggery, and that is rape, whether you are male or female.
Classical criminology did not assume that existing legal definitions of crime and the way they are enforced necessarily constitute this objective category.
The storm of comments has forced the provincial government to delay releasing the study's final guidelines while it sorts through and incorporates the comments into the document.
He eventually left his boat and was able to grab one breath of air before being forced down.
Yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) reinforced hydroxyapatite (HA) bio-composite coatings on polyimide (PI) substrate had been developed by R.
I felt this to have been a very dangerous proceeding, for if le bon Dieu had noticed Ghislaine's travesty, He might have made the wind turn, and she would then have remained a deviless and been forced to live in hell for all eternity. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
When the molds dried, they were cut off the model and filled with flesh-colored polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass.
Cosby portrays a blue-collar worker who was forced to retire early from an airline.
Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimately fruitless talks.
It was forced to delay its full-year results pending rescue refinancing talks. Times, Sunday Times
Your only comfort lay in the forced reflection, that, real as he looked, the poor caitiff was but imaginary, a bit of painted canvass, whom no delirium tremens, nor so much as a retributive headache, awaited, on the morrow.
But charities said owners should also be forced to muzzle aggressive dogs. The Sun
I hear dark rumors that she has her enemies duct taped to comfortable recliners and forced to watch Beachcombers episodes until they eat their own weight in bran loaf! Archive 2007-09-01
I have been forced to admit diverse propositions which appear somewhat deplorable.
Workers in some of America's most dangerous industries such as meatpacking, poultry and construction ... are being forced by their employers to pay for their own safety gear because of OSHA's failure to finish the PPE rule," a joint statement by the two labor groups declared. Unions sue Bush Dept. of Labor over worker deaths; 50 deaths, 400,000 injuries tied to OSHA's inaction
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet.
Aberdeen council was recently forced to backtrack on its single status plans after council workers threatened industrial action.
He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
Being forced to do both farm and household work, she is torn between her self-esteem and her husband's chauvinistic attitude.
Having learned that lies procreate exponentially, Rosas was forced to implement some rules and demand discretion. HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July.
Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
Commercial logic has forced the two parts of the company closer together.
Since I refuse to believe that the author does not know or realize this, I am forced to conclude that he is simply a verbal masturbator playing to some other gallery. The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.
This new legion of armed women has forced designers to pay attention. Times, Sunday Times
At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse.
It leads to an unnatural style that is forced and wooden.
Muslims, instead of being the recipients of more and yet more kinds of aid (that we do not extend to non-Muslims), are forced to start confronting what Islam itself has caused, and what might have been had the "gift of Islam" never arrived in the vast swath of territories that were conquered by the forces of Islam, containing many peoples who found that with Islam came the attempt at arabization. David Horowitz Freedom Center
As DSE units were forced to scatter, individual men and women were left to their own devices until they could once again regroup. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
No one knew if he could finish the match or would be forced to concede.
When she is forced to flee back to Asia, she is followed by Orlando, who is himself followed in turn by other paladins.
Britney Spears is being forced to give custody of her children to man-whore/baby-mama maker/Britney despoiler/my idol Kevin Federline. Archive 2007-10-01
The latest research on mammoth tusks shows that young male mammoths were being forced out of family groups much earlier than normal.
So it was good to be out on the water, with a team of people and be forced to put the work in.
He said the police were forced to show results and intonated that if his client, Mr Zulu, was refused bail it would be a notch on the police's belt. ANC Daily News Briefing
Such duties would be set out in a statute and reinforced by a revised oath of office. Times, Sunday Times
Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity. Palestine Blogs aggregator
How lovely to think that even those with 24-inch waists will be forced to cover them up from now on.
She was forced to resign because of ill health.
Some companies may be forced to build transportation systems for their own products. Peril and Promise: A Commentary on America
It might include acknowledging your own mistakes, such as casually floating that $900 billion figure which forced House and Senate leaders to backload key provisions in the final bill. Harold Pollack: Some Unsolicited Advice for Howard Dean, and for President Obama, Too
Fanned fires and forced love never did well yet.
There is a comic roundelay that makes sense on its face, but if you think about it for a second, you realize how forced and unreal it is.
Vries, "than that, on the one hand, everything which exists is conceived by or under some attribute or other; that the more reality, therefore, a being or thing has, the more attributes must be assigned to it;" "and conversely," (and this he calls his argumentum palmarium in proof of the existence of God,) "the more attributes I assign to a thing, the more I am forced to conceive it as existing. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
Where refugees are forced or coerced to return to their country of origin to fight, this is tantamount to refoulement, which is prohibited in all circumstances. 2. Protection
forced convection in plasma generators
Poe had been a musty relic, someone she was forced to read in high school, nothing more than " nevermore. IN A STRANGE CITY
This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop.
He has been forced to adjust his schedule.
General Assembly of the Kirk, his acquaintance with the nobleman who held the office of Lord High Commissioner forced him more into public than suited either his views or inclinations. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
The party had already been forced to weed out more than 4,000 people from other parties and hard-left groups seeking votes. Times, Sunday Times
In the primary goal of the trial, the drug showed an improvement in forced expiratory volume of 10.6% in those on the drug through 24 weeks and 10.5% through 48 weeks. Vertex Reports Success of Cystic Fibrosis Drug
The awards committee has been afforced with new members in order to reflect the changing world.
The ban cannot be legally enforced.
The idea of henges dotting ancient Britain is reinforced by the discovery of the so-called "Seahenge," a remarkably well-preserved timber circle, on New Stones at Avebury
And so, having such words, such poisonous concepts, they are forced into paradox to detoxify and break down these concepts. THE BROKEN GOD
The tactical air assault force can be reinforced with a motorized rifle battalion.
Chassepot armed infantry easily checked their opponents, but were pounded by artillery and forced to retreat as the Germans found their flanks.
Perhaps all single people should be forced on Valentine's Day to watch videos of their exes cavorting around with their new partners to make them think about what they had given away.
In reality, the danger to democracy and Scottish interests came from cronyism, reinforced by partisan voting.
Equation for short-time burst pressure of pipes reinforced by cross helically wound wires (PSP) was formulated based on method of force equivalent.
By structuring the course this way, we're forced to produce something the companies think is valuable.
In a convergent fault, two plates crash into each other: one plate is forced upwards, one is then ‘subducted’ underneath the other.
There was no evidence that her front door had been forced. Times, Sunday Times
For a brief time in the 1990s, nerds rose to a spectacular height with the rise of computers – a nerd-dominated domain – when people were forced to kiss a lot of nerd tuchis in order to get their networks to run. Overcoming Your Nerd-Dom: Part 1 In A Possibly-Continuing Series
But it is his characters, men and women who are forced to find their humanity amid extreme suffering and duress, who make this book memorable. Times, Sunday Times
It forced me to confront a messy tangle of emotions.
The ban will be enforced by beach lifeguards. The Sun
The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane.
Those who dismiss us as mere cranks will be forced to think again.
He was declared persona non grata and forced to leave the country.
What Happened: After possessing Lafayette, she forced Jesus to relinquish his brujo powers, and then she killed him. True Blood Episode Recap: "And When I Die"
This reduction has forced others to move in a similar direction.
Newt Gingrich broke a vital trust when he forced the partial government shutdown for three weeks over Christmas of 1995.
Silly and partial encroacher! not to know to what to attribute the reserve I am forced to treat him with! Clarissa Harlowe
He has forced himself into the position by gripping the bat right at the bottom of the handle.
The armed robbers forced their way into the house on Monday at 7pm. Times, Sunday Times
The two pieces that compose the front half are joined and reinforced with a roof frame that surrounds them.
Now hospital bosses say they have been forced to increase charges to combat tight-fisted holidaymakers who park up then take a short taxi ride to the airport.
McSherry scored an inspirational point from a tight angle when he was forced to shoot from the right corner.
He reinforced that ‘This really helps my preparation because I can now go nighty-night after din-din.’
Governments were forced to adopt a carrot and stick approach to the trade unions.
The long, narrow proportions of the 2,600 sf Patisserie is reinforced by a floating ceiling running the length of the interior, drawing the patron in from Queen Street to the depths of the kitchen.
It was an enforced absence from work, but at least it gave me a little time to catch my breath before the final push.
The recent massacre in Acteal has forced the government to shake off its stupor, at least for a while.
A mismatched pair of detectives are forced to work together to track down a crime kingpin who has introduced a new narcotic to the streets. The Sun
The people there have slain some of his followers, forced him to fly for his life, and refused to pay scatt to a Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell
Those Journos not "prioritized" were forced to line up in halls, down stairs, and out in the street to attend the screening of Up in the Air. Erica Abeel: Corporate Culture on Trial in Toronto
As the earth's crust was forced upwards, it displaced hundreds of cubic metres of water along an area as large as 1000 km long and 100 km wide.
To have my name traduced in public; in inns, among the meanest vulgar! to have any little favours that my unguarded heart may have too lightly betrayed me to grant, boasted of there! nay, even to hear that you had been forced to fly from my love! History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
They reinforced good behaviour with some kind of reward to direct a child's pattern of behaviour.
The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
Extra padding protects palms from blisters, and fingers are reinforced with an additional layer of faux suede.

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