forcible

How To Use forcible In A Sentence

• Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
• Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
• The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power.
• Between Dawney and Beta lieth a famous island in Orenoque (now called Baraquan, for above Meta it is not known by the name of Orenoque) which is called Athule (cataract of Ature); beyond which ships of burden cannot pass by reason of a most forcible overfall, and current of water; but in the eddy all smaller vessels may be drawn even to Peru itself. The Discovery of Guiana
• A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
• Nevertheless, a significant portion of the public supported the forcible suppression of campus protests.
• Having no business education except that acquired from common experience and observation, and no schooling except of the most rudimentary kind, he would express himself clearly in unpolished but forcible and terse language, and would write out with his own hand a contract which, for precision and completeness, few lawyers could equal. Living in Dryden: John Southworth
• But non-government organizations decried the forcible evictions as inhumane, urging the government to build replacements for their demolished houses.
• They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
• In his strongest and most forcible performance from the podium, Mr Sargent succeeded in putting across two key messages.