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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • In burglary, the loss is discovered after the fact, and there is evidence of forcible entry.
  • We have alternately one long or forcible syllable, and two short or light ones, recurring over and over.
  • The police's forcible entry into the building has come under a lot of criticism.
  • I appear to have caught the tone of this New York Times article from 1877, describing the idiom and the practice, in the context of the forcible ejection from the halls of government of one Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, for the offense of ... wearing trousers. I'm making some wine from the grapes of wrath
  • His first publication was a forcible article against slavery.
  • It is "a fact that forcible expiratory efforts in violent coughing or vomiting, and especially in sneezing, sometimes give rise to ruptures of the little (external) vessels" of the eye. 17 With respect to the internal vessels, Dr. Gunning has lately recorded a case of exophthalmos in consequence of whooping-cough, which in his opinion depended on the rupture of the deeper vessels; and another analogous case has been recorded. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect.
  • The word forcible will be replaced with the original language from the Hyde Amendment," Jeff Sagnip, spokesman for bill sponsor Chris Smith R-N.J., said. Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Back Off Crazy Rape Redefinition, Find New Way To Marginalize Women
  • Metrodorus, that it is a forcible illapse of the sun upon clouds which makes them to sparkle as fire. Essays and Miscellanies
  • He persisted in arguing that the forcible suppression of the students might prove to be a mistake of such magnitude as to destroy the legitimacy of the regime.
  • As an indicator of forcible suppression it often appears in charts associated with assassinations (but not necessarily for the actual moment of such deeds).
  • Your talent, meager though it is, would probably have alerted your sleeping mind to any attempt at forcible entry. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • Its primary use in courts martial is for forcible sodomy or childabuse. The Volokh Conspiracy » DADT Repeal Soon?
  • In Korematsu, the Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of forcible evacuation; however, on the very same day, in Endo, the Court held indefinite detention to be illegal. Is That Legal?: Japanese American internment Archives
  • Someone or something has made a forcible entry.
  • At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms exprest his detestation of books of chivalry. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
  • Elisée Reclus in his very interesting paper La Grande Famille7 gives support to the idea that the so-called domestication of animals did not originally arise from any forcible subjugation of them by man, but from a natural amity with them which grew up in the beginning from common interests, pursuits and affections. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
  • He often forces me to change woman, I want to accuse his forcible rape really.
  • Assyria (Re 17: 15). fainted -- literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions.
  • I met brave journalists who were doing their best to expose forcible evictions, food adulteration, toxic pollution and graft. Times, Sunday Times
  • Elisee Reclus in his very interesting paper La Grande Famille (1) gives support to the idea that the so-called domestication of animals did not originally arise from any forcible subjugation of them by man, but from a natural amity with them which grew up in the beginning from common interests, pursuits and affections. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
  • Hofmokl also describes the case of a young girl with an undeveloped vagina, absence of the uterus and adnexa, who during a forcible and unsuccessful attempt at coitus, had her left labium majus torn from the vaginal wall. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • I went to the door, but would go no farther; but in the ten minutes I stood there, I heard him in graphic and forcible terms depict the misery of the drunkard and the awful consequences of his conduct, both as they affected himself and those connected with him. Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers
  • Then did I say a few things to all and sundry -- stinging, biting things, ungainsayable and forcible things -- and took possession of all the fish that were left, so the Indians slunk off in sullen silence. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
  • Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance. Chapter 26
  • These circumstances combined to attach to the term villain ideas of crime and guilt, in so forcible a manner that the application of the epithet even to those to whom it legally belonged became an affront, and was abstained from whenever no affront was intended. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • The person who uses defensive force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful and forcible act was occurring or had occurred.
  • I propose to arrange such cosmoramic and other views as will exhibit in the clearest and most forcible light the true philosophy of life. Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4
  • We are firmly against the forcible acquisition for our land at paltry compensation rates.
  • A lawyer pointed out that there was no sign of forcible entry into the camp.
  • And those watching Forcibles swung their empty stares around the nearly deserted bar, then wheeled their tight formation and clumped out.
  • Home invasion is the forcible entry of an occupied home by presumably violent and usually armed criminals.
  • While recognizing that the complainant said “no” throughout the incident, the court stated that the legislature intended the term forcible compulsion to mean “something more than a lack of consent.” False Rape Reports
  • The police's forcible entry into the building has come under a lot of criticism.
  • There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas. Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Troubled History of Domestic Violence Legislation in Pakistan
  • More disturbingly, the government has inaugurated a policy of forcible expulsions from camps for the displaced.
  • God knows, nothing of this kind was ever in my thoughts; but I have entered very deeply into your affliction with regard to your Mother; and while I was wishing, the many poor souls in the kind of desponding way she is in, whom I have seen, came afresh into my mind; and all the mismanagement with which I have seen them treated was strong in my mind, and I wrote under a forcible impulse, which I could not at that time resist, but I have fretted so much about it since, that I think it is the last time I will ever let my pen run away with me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
  • She took her case to the king's court and sued for forcible abduction and imprisonment, demanding £100 in damages, which the court, in turn, awarded.
  • Yelling that the restrooms of OK high schools are filled with lesbians and forcible sterilization is social conservatism? Think Progress » Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
  • Democracy is obviously more desirable than a dictatorship, but that does not justify any forcible change by an external power.
  • Dexter aspects are considered more direct and effective than sinister aspects; Lilly writes of them ‘Observe the dexter aspect is more forcible than the Sinister’.
  • Strauss-Kahn, 62, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on charges including attempted rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.
  • Forcible coercion is probably not required in most circumstances: hints, looking disappointed, pretending to be sensitive and caring for a few days while telling her it is the right thing to do, making it clear that you would not be interested in her if she had a child, pretending you would love her less with a child, etc. is probably all that is necessary. October 31st, 2009
  • The World Uyghur Congress stated the shooting took place not at a police station, but in Khotan's main bazaar, when more than 100 local Uyghurs peacefully demonstrated against illegal seizures of land and the forcible disappearances of relatives by Chinese security forces during unrest in 2009. Henryk Szadziewski: 2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
  • The first _he_, in the last example, is redundant; yet the construction is sometimes admissible, for the expression is more forcible than it would be to say, "Let him hear who hath ears to hear;" and if we adopt the ingenious method of Mr. Smith, the sentence is grammatical, and may be rendered thus; "He that hath ears, _hath ears_ to hear; let him hear. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
  • Already defeated in so many battles, they were now also at discord among themselves; the execution of the party of Tydeus son of Ion, by Pedaritus upon the charge of Atticism, followed by the forcible imposition of an oligarchy upon the rest of the city, having made them suspicious of one another; and they therefore thought neither themselves nor the mercenaries under Pedaritus a match for the enemy. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
  • This regulation could well mean forcible conscription into the armed forces.
  • Moreouer, when the goods shall be in Newles, it may bee thought doubtfull to bring it thence quietly without disliking or forcible resistance of the king of Denmarke, forasmuch as he maketh quarrell, and alleageth damage vnto him in his tolles of the Sound by our trade to S. Nicholas, how much more will he now doe by this way, and with how much greater aduantage may he performe it? The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Forcible expulsion of a population is reprehensible and a violation of international law.
  • So language was crafted to protect residents against prosecution or a civil suit if they blast away at an intruder, as long as they think the intruder is about to commit a forcible felony. April 2005
  • There's a law to protect refugees from forcible return to countries where they face persecution.
  • In the majority of cases this wide gap in the alveolus in front can be filled by forcible fracture of the projecting intermaxillary bone, which is then carried into line with the normal alveolar arch and there sutured until osseous union is secured. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
  • His remedy, like that of Marsilius, was the forcible disendowment of the Church by the king and lay lords in order to restore it to its exclusively spiritual role. HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
  • Mr. Bowman informs me that in the excessive photophobia, accompanying what is called scrofulous ophthalmia in children, when the light is so very painful that during weeks or months it is constantly excluded by the most forcible closure of the lids, he has often been struck on opening the lids by the paleness of the eye, -- not an unnatural paleness, but an absence of the redness that might have been expected when the surface is somewhat inflamed, as is then usually the case; and this paleness he is inclined to attribute to the forcible closure of the eyelids. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
  • The police checked all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry.
  • The lunate may be displaced forward by forcible dorsiflexion of the hand, and forms a projection beneath the flexor tendons; there is usually loss of sensibility in the distribution of the ulnar nerve in the hand. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Mogae objecting to what they called the forcible relocation of the ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The use of "deport" and "transfer" indicate that the Convention prohibits the Occupying Power from the active or forcible transfer of its own civilians. INSTITUTIONAL JEW HATRED
  • Forcible taking of lodgment without presenting proper identification documentation, or refusing to register for the lodgment.
  • In 2005, police accused Dr. Renato Brun Del Re, 53, of kidnapping and forcible confinement after he was allegedly involved in kidnapping his daughter in an attempt to deprogram her from what he said at the time was a cult. Dominion Christian Centre found Gucci divine, charity watchdog discovers
  • He objects to that idolatry of sexualism which makes it the fountain of all forcible enthusiasms; he dislikes the amorous drama which makes the female the only key to the male. George Bernard Shaw
  • You kick the ball, there is a period of time the foot is lame, forcible inspection, found that large nail had all opened, under the nails of the skin has infection and suppuration.
  • This would include both lethal attacks on soldiers of those nations or members of those military organizations, and, once the members surrender or are disarmed, their continued forcible detention.
  • Future airlifters will likely retain this requirement since it is an essential element of the Army's forcible entry mission.
  • The police had to make a forcible entry into the house where the thief was hiding.
  • Both deportation and forcible transfer relate to involuntary and unlawful evacuation of individuals from the territory in which they reside.
  • As the blood is forced through the heart by forcible contractions of its muscular walls, it has the action of a force pump, and gives the impulse at each beat, which we call the pulse -- the dilatation of the arteries throughout the system. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • No ‘consent’ can deprive a parent of his or her natural guardianship rights and obligations, either, especially if they were coerced through threats of forcible removal.
  • Last week, a spokesman for the bill's principal sponsor, Rep. Chris Smith R-N.J., said, 'The word forcible will be replaced with the original language from the Hyde Amendment.' HUFFPOST HILL - Rep. Chris Lee Steps Down
  • We have a forcible demonstration of that here before us today. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
  • Human Rights Watch's research in Liberia found that the Liberian Peace Council was responsible for torture, rape, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention, and forcible recruitment.
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  • It is not possible to build a democratic state based on an ideology of religious exclusivism and through the forcible suppression of the democratic rights of another people.
  • [6407] Curtius insinuates, nulla res efficacius multitudinem regit quam superstitio; melius vatibus quam ducibus parent, vana religione capti, etiam impotentes faeminae; the common people will sooner obey priests than captains, and nothing so forcible as superstition, or better than blind zeal to rule a multitude; have so terrified and gulled them, that it is incredible to relate. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • TREASURY as a remedy for the grievances of Glasgow's financiers are not, as you might suppose, a synonym for forcible feeding; nor have they anything to do with the substitutes for "parritch" to which, as Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919
  • Finally, it may be justifiable to allow forcible entry to premises for the purposes of inspection.
  • Atticism, followed by the forcible imposition of an oligarchy upon the rest of the city, having made them suspicious of one another; and they therefore thought neither themselves not the mercenaries under Pedaritus a match for the enemy. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • However, not only have there been multiple forcible annexations since the Charter's adoption, but many of them have been accepted as legitimate by the international community.
  • Mother on the last day of last year George wrote to me at Honington to say that 'now was the time to settle about the House,' and using these forcible words, 'If you demur I will immediately advertize it to be sold by auction.' Letter 158
  • Induction is the more convincing and clear: it is more readily learnt by the use of the senses, and is applicable generally to the mass of men, though reasoning is more forcible and effective against contradictious people. Topics
  • Such an offer must be made at fair market value before a forcible seizure can be sought through the courts.
  • The first _he_, in the last example, is redundant; yet the construction is sometimes admissible, for the expression is more forcible than it would be to say, "Let him hear who hath ears to hear;" and if we adopt the ingenious method of Mr. Smith, the sentence is grammatical, and may be rendered thus; "He that hath ears, _hath ears_ to hear; let him hear. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
  • In fact, whenever you hear the term "stimulus," a valid substitute term would be "forcible government overrides of private capital allocations. Forbes.com: News
  • I heard a forcible argument in favor of the new policy.
  • Juveniles 15 and older committing rape or forcible assault are named prominently in offenses automatically transferred to adult court.
  • The man who carried out the forcible ejection, it now emerges, was a burly fellow who is described as ‘a freelance car clamper, celebrity minder, and former nightclub bouncer.’
  • Can one fail to see that lyricism is the diametric opposite to the cult of strength and power and, in an utterly natural manner, offers itself as a corrective to our tendency to resolve society's problems by forcible means and through power struggles, through technological, financial, organizational, political, and physical power - power that, in any case, is ultimately merely a product of incomplete insight («ein Produkt unvollständiger Einsicht»)? Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture
  • This regulation could well mean forcible conscription into the armed forces.
  • Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
  • Actual breaches of the peace include riotous and unlawful assemblies, riots, affrays, forcible entry and detainer, etc.
  • Elizabeth watched with fascinated horror the forcible feeding practised on the poor children.
  • Juveniles 15 and older committing rape or forcible assault are named prominently in offenses automatically transferred to adult court.
  • It is not possible to build a democratic state based on an ideology of religious exclusivism and through the forcible suppression of the democratic rights of another people.
  • The basis for the conviction was hypernatraemia caused by forcible ingestion of salt- at least four teaspoonfuls in one dose. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cause is usually forcible contraction of the hamstrings, as in sports such as sprinting and hurdling.
  • Critics argue that forcible sterilisation is too radical a procedure to be conducted without consent while other options such as a long-term contraceptive solution should be considered. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The Army should maintain a vertical assault capability for forcible entry operations.
  • They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
  • The lunate may be displaced forward by forcible dorsiflexion of the hand, and forms a projection beneath the flexor tendons; there is usually loss of sensibility in the distribution of the ulnar nerve in the hand. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • If recent FBI stings are any indication, very few, if any, children and minors involved in forcible, coerced, or trafficked prostitution are found by Craigslist targeting and crack downs. Sheriff sues Craigslist as ‘largest source’ of prostitution « Bound, Not Gagged
  • Amongst all these fair enticing objects, which procure love, and bewitch the soul of man, there is none so moving, so forcible as profit; and that which carrieth with it a show of commodity. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The phrase forcible rape was abandoned some time ago, and there is some indication that what they would be trying to do is make women jump over an additional hurdle if they want to get an abortion," Rep. Diana DeGette D-Colo. told POLITICO this week. Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Back Off Crazy Rape Redefinition, Find New Way To Marginalize Women
  • Juveniles 15 and older committing rape or forcible assault are named prominently in offenses automatically transferred to adult court.

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