I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a defence force (= group of soldiers, pilots etc trained to defend a country )
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The country's defence forces are on standby in case of an attack.
air force
an act comes into force
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Since the act came into force, all public buildings must have disabled access.
an enemy force (= a military group that is your enemy )
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The town is occupied by enemy forces.
armed forces
be forced to admit sth
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The government was forced to admit that the policy had never really worked.
be forced/driven into exile
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Many of his political opponents have been forced into exile.
(by/from) force of habit (= used about a habit that is difficult to change )
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I still walk by his house each day - force of habit, I suppose.
centrifugal force
centripetal force
combat troops/soldiers/forces/units
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US combat troops were in the streets of the capital yesterday.
combining forces (= working together )
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University zoologists and government vets are combining forces to investigate the disease.
credible threat/challenge/force etc
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Can Thompson make a credible challenge for the party leadership?
deploy forces/troops/weapons etc
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NATO’s decision to deploy cruise missiles
excessive force (= more violence than is necessary )
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The men claim that the police officers used excessive force.
expeditionary force
explosive force
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the explosive force of volcanoes
force an entry (= get into a building by breaking a door, window etc )
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The church was locked, but he managed to force an entry.
force majeure
force of gravity
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the force of gravity
force to be reckoned with
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Barcelona will be a force to be reckoned with this season.
forced a division
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MPs forced a division on the bill.
forced entry (= when someone gets into a building illegally by breaking a door, window etc )
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There were no signs of a forced entry, but several paintings were missing.
forced entry
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The police found no signs of forced entry.
forced labour
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Two million suffered imprisonment or forced labour.
force/frighten/beat etc sb into submission
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Napoleon threatened to starve the country into submission.
force/manage a smile (= smile when you do not really feel happy or friendly )
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She forced a smile, but he could see disappointment in her face.
gale force (= a measurement showing that a wind is extremely strong )
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The winds had increased to gale force.
gale force
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blowing gale-force
gale force/hurricane force winds (= very strong )
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He was buffeted by the gale force winds.
gale force/hurricane force winds (= very strong )
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He was buffeted by the gale force winds.
ground forces
labour force
market forces
marshalled...forces
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The general marshalled his forces for a major offensive.
massed ranks/forces
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I look around me at the massed ranks of reporters.
military force
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The United States is prepared to use military force to achieve its aims.
military forces (= the army, navy, or air force )
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a raid by European military forces
police force
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Jones joined the police force in 1983.
potent force
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Advertising is a potent force in showing smoking as a socially acceptable habit.
rapid-response forces/team/unit etc
rebel forces/soldiers
serve in the army/air force/navy etc
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He returned to Greece to serve in the army.
special forces
surface forces
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the Navy’s surface forces
task force
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a task force on health care reform
the forces of evil literary (= the people or things that increase the amount of evil in the world )
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The king knew he must fight the forces of evil or his homeland would perish.
the labour force (= all the people who work in a country or for a company )
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We need an educated labour force.
the laws/forces of nature
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The inhabitants of the island fight a constant battle against the forces of nature.
the police force
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Her son is in the police force.
the sales force (= the people who sell a company's products )
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The sales force had grown from 40 to 270.
the security services/forces (= the police, army etc )
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Clashes with the security forces continued.
tour de force
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His speech to the Democratic Convention was a tour de force.
use force (= use violent methods )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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Extra funds were given to agricultural production, food subsidies, and housing for armed forces personnel.
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They even had some control over their own finances and their own armed forces .
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The conference also took charge of the security and armed forces .
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The armed forces were efficient with good equipment.
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The old Soviet armed forces should be split up between the new states, not consolidated under the flag of St Andrew.
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They had both served in the armed forces , and Nathan had been disabled as a result.
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Moreira claimed that the changes had not produced ill feeling or unrest within the armed forces .
conventional
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Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces , the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.
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Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.
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That would be much more likely if Mr Gorbachev could reduce his conventional forces and weaponry in the Warsaw Pact.
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Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.
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Throughout the alliance the will was lacking to create conventional forces on the scale needed to balance those of the Eastern bloc.
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First, he said, the treaty on conventional forces would likely be thrown overboard.
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From 1957 Macmillan and his cabinet tried to rectify this by drastic cuts to conventional forces as Britain's nuclear armoury expanded.
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It is true that the paper still gave considerable emphasis to conventional forces .
driving
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The basic driving forces propelling firms abroad come from managers' desires for growth, for cost reduction and for control.
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Back in daylight, Vatanen has been the driving force behind the Banbury team today.
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The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
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Shouldn't it be the people who have as their driving force the desire to reveal truths about human life?
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But is kinship really an important driving force behind cooperation in male lions?
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The driving force is ensuring satisfactory business returns.
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Local companies have contributed half a million pounds, but the driving force behind the festival is Thamesdown Borough Council.
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Whatever the driving force , heat conservation has many advantages.
full
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Brian then had to face the full force of the Sutherland-Anderson fact-finding machine on his own.
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Whatever it is, it was in full force on Inauguration Day, at least on television.
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It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month.
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Just behind was the full force of the cataract.
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As soon as possible afterwards, the existing legal obligations on landlords in regard to repair and maintenance should be put into full force again.
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Short of bankruptcy, business creditors can go after debtors with the full force of the law.
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Hence, the investor is partially shielded from the full force of any general market decline.
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Name the ethnicity, tax bracket or wardrobe, and they were there in full force .
large
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Unfortunately, in 1009 a particularly large force of Scandinavians appeared.
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In this play, the king and his army do battle with a larger force representing ambitious elements in the church.
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Five hundred policemen in riot helmets were assigned to the march, an extraordinarily large force .
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A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
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And it provoked larger forces that transformed the demand for affirmative action into a demographic free-for-all.
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Edward now moved north-east, but heard that Philip was at Rouen with a large force .
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Being tested was: Can small units, equipped with high-tech gizmos, stop or slow down a much larger enemy force ?
military
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Within the former Soviet Union there remains a large military force .
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His order organized the first military ambulance task force .
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The question now was whether a military task force should set sail.
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Linked to this is the upkeep of military forces and armaments for domestic reasons.
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On Inauguration Day, members of the military and police forces stand shoulder-to-shoulder along Pennsylvania Avenue.
nuclear
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It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces .
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In particular they made great progress in their attempts to put electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force together within the same theoretical framework.
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The theory that predicts the existence of the W and Z particles evolved largely through attempts to understand the weak nuclear force .
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It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack.
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The talks in Geneva about intermediate-range nuclear forces have recently resumed.
peacekeeping
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The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993.
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It is now hoped that the full peacekeeping force will be in place by the end of the month.
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It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.
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They signed a protocol on interim measures to establish peacekeeping forces and military observers.
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They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force .
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If armed peacekeeping forces are needed at all, they are needed because they can fight.
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There are some who say that we should involve peacekeeping forces right away.
political
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This can be traced to two, radically different, political forces .
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But this is Washington, a town where the display of a statue can summon robust political forces on both sides.
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Law was a highly efficient, rather unimaginative, detailed administrator, given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness.
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Also, the balance of political forces has resulted in the current policy compromise.
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I now turn to the question of social collectivities and political forces .
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We are aiming at a negotiated settlement acceptable to major political forces in our country.
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They are fertile ground for the emergence of an explicitly right-wing political force .
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By and large the Nonconformist churches supported the war, destroying themselves as a significant political force in the process.
potent
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Evangelicalism became an especially potent force in the attack on traditional pastimes.
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The alarmist tone further illustrates that even in exile, Salinas remains a potent political force here.
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The feeling that Hawaii had been unlawfully possessed by the United States was still a potent force .
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But religious righteousness has been a more potent force than economic despair.
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The smugglers are the most potent economic forces in this area...
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Alesi will be a potent force , particularly if the Michelin tyres work well in the rain.
powerful
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Death is the most powerful of these forces .
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Religion, combined with practical help, can be a powerful force in stabilizing a neighborhood and turning lives around.
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But I think there's a more powerful force in this universe than the Prime Mover.
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Computers, and the underlying communications network that supports them, have been a powerful force for such standardization.
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Employers, by contrast, can call upon powerful ideological forces in our culture to legitimise their interests.
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And in the long run the friendships formed in these social situations can be a powerful force in decision making.
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Instantly the air of the quiet lounge seemed to stir, to gather vibrations as if his arrival ushered in a powerful force .
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A nebulous collective leadership, including the chiefs of the powerful armed forces , may still be holding the balance of power.
social
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One is the lack of awareness that the technological organisation is itself subject to social forces .
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It seems prodigious, immense, far greater than the social forces that mold generations.
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A hybrid type of society emerged, in which archaic social forces were harnessed to modern industrial techniques.
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Political behaviour is not shaped exclusively by social forces .
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Such killings are only the most dramatic outward manifestation of the powerful social forces that keep women trapped in dangerous situations.
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However, rarely can the political, social and other forces existing in the organisation countenance such change.
special
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Male speaker Yes we do teach elements of the special forces .
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He refused to comment on how many other special forces soldiers were involved.
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Its special force of percussive tone helps to define musical entries and mark changes of tempo.
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Among them is a special riot force whose numbers may be one-third of the total.
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This perhaps gives a special force to the Voltairean remark about the function of language being to conceal thought.
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They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force .
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Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.
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Before this force of 5,000 commandos could be raised, however, Churchill's enthusiasm for special forces was tempered by reality.
■ NOUN
air
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All depended on the navy and sometimes on the air force to land them at least somewhere near their target beaches.
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He never met the young air force crew, never even saw them, yet he has never forgotten them either.
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The air force created airborne units versed in machine-gun strafing and rocket-launching operations in support of ground troops.
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An air force jet buzzed the compound to encourage him to step down.
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Producer Elmo Williams hired veteran pilot Jack Canary as a technical advisor and put him in charge of assembling the film's air force .
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Our air force Is good, our army is mechanized.
defence
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Armed forces: No standing defence forces.
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Armed forces: defence force disbanded in 1981; approximately 300 police.
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An army spokesman said that the security vetting of personnel was a normal procedure in all defence forces .
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MacArthur was dedicated to the extirpation of militarism and did not favour the development of defence forces .
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But obvious problems will centre on the security situation, and the reconstruction of the defence forces and the economy.
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When a civil conflict eventually broke out in 1991, the national defence force was unable to provide a credible response.
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After working in the prison service, he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent.
government
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The government forces continued with their offensive in Nyarubanga.
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At that time, the government forces maintained only six military garrisons in the department.
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Most of the refugees had come from the Kurgan-Tyube region, the scene of bitter fighting between pro- and anti- government forces .
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Yet hardly a day goes by without more people being killed by Islamists or government forces .
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Instead, they are used to secure territory captured by government forces .
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The government forces concentrated their efforts on the destruction of the Mbari command post.
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In September, government forces moved into Latakia, a port city where Rifaat exerts power, to confiscate a fortified compound.
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They nearly captured Hargeisa, and the government forces reacted by rounding up all influential Issaqs in the town and executing them.
labor
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Industrial workers formed the chief market as well as the labor force of the new industrial society.
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In the 1970s as the baby boom generation entered the labor force , capital-labor ratios rose more slowly or even fell.
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Many in the labor force will not be ready for full participation in fishnet organizations.
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There is a labor force with all the necessary skills, and there are materials.
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Simply put, the supply side of our economic security also requires a labor force .
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The labor force participation rate of women increased more than 5 % between 1982 and 1993.
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In 1995, they represented 46 percent of the labor force , up from 38 percent in 1972.
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Nevertheless, some openings will result from the need to replace workers who transfer to other occupations or leave the labor force .
labour
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Mr. McLeish Is the Secretary of State aware that the labour force survey was published today?
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Motherhood replaced marriage as the occasion for leaving paid work and seldom marked the end of a woman's labour force membership.
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Needs are always related back to capitalism's demand for the social reproduction of its labour force .
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Moreover, much of the growing industrial labour force was not of urban origin.
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The emphasis is on flexibility - in terms of response to the market and in terms of the labour force .
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The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers' Statute.
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The revolution of 1905 had made plain the disruptive power of the industrial labour force .
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Steam-power meant a new and intense concentration of large-scale industry and of the labour force to man it.
market
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Added together, market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict.
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Ultimately, unless market forces are restored, high levels of unemployment and social instability in the region should be expected.
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In this area, market forces are likely to decide between the various competing standards before official bodies make up their minds.
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As market forces wear down the old ways, discount ventures are catching on.
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As for its chief executive's remuneration, that should be a matter for market forces .
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The plain fact was that a combination of market forces and gross mismanagement had thrown Salomon Brothers into deep trouble.
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The euro has provided the most convincing proof so far that political will can impose itself on market forces .
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He realizes the importance of voluntary exchange and market forces in producing efficient results.
police
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Mr Spicer also plans to look into ways of encouraging better communication between police forces and local authorities.
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In recent years, the local police force has ballooned from two officers to 11.
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The police force inherited by Nicholas was small, corrupt and ill-trained.
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At the other extreme, they can not long do the job of a local police force .
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It was much more segregated than the police force and people rarely served in their home area.
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So why do their activities arouse deep suspicion among tax authorities and police forces ?
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Mr. Lloyd Our objective is that the number of special constables should equal about 20 percent. of the regular police force .
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Mr. Lloyd Of course, but decisions on the effective use of manpower are taken by the police authority and the police force .
security
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They have been padlocked by owners fleeing militant kidnappings, extortions and crackdowns by the security forces .
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By the end of July, 23 demonstrators had been killed and several wounded by security forces .
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The figures also reveal that the security forces have lost twice as many members this year as last year.
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We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee.
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Mr Mubarak certainly needs the loyalty of the police and security forces .
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At least three other massacres by the security forces have taken place since the new government took office.
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The security forces are said not to have intervened when up to 100,000 people demonstrated in Timisoara on Wednesday evening.
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The government is concerned that most of the disappearances are blamed on the security forces .
task
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The task force can travel quickly because it does not have to carry support material with it.
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The task force chair, Robert Spitzer, was then faced with a dilemma.
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The administration set up its own special task force in order to find an alternative less likely to antagonise the logging industry.
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In the meantime task forces are trying to collect accurate data on actual hours worked as opposed to contracted hours.
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From my work on that task force , I can tell you that this is pretty usual.
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They would obtain that more readily if they were involved in some sort of community task force .
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Both task forces are to present interim reports Thursday.
■ VERB
apply
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This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force .
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The same argument is supposed to apply now with equal force .
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In order to achieve this acceleration he must apply a force much greater than the weight of his ann.
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When they pushed at the end of the arm, they were applying force farther from the fulcrum.
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The same argument applies with even greater force to the parliamentary candidates - Jones, Thorne, Davis and Gardner.
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All, with the possible exception of employer conflicts, apply with equal force to dropout rates from public schools.
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Once again Charles applied superior force , and many of the rebels immediately submitted.
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If they used a shorter pencil, they had to apply more force because they were pushing closer to the fulcrum.
come
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The amended procedures came into force at the start of the new session.
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Dates set for town centre traffic ban Darlington's town centre traffic ban comes into force on March 29.
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A ceasefire came into force late on Feb. 17 allowing Army troops to be evacuated from Adma.
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The whaling nations claim that since the hunting ban came into force in 1986 some species are now flourishing.
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It aroused much local opposition but the directives came into force , technically at least, from I January this year.
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Both the Poll Tax and the Business rate come into force on 1st April 1990.
deploy
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There was a pause in which Bandeira visibly deployed his forces .
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Chiang was using his only respectable troops against Mao, who in turn deployed a force of up to 2 million men.
join
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But as the repression has increased, more women have directly joined the combat forces .
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Two younger sisters have also joined the force .
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The rest of the family decided to join the guerrilla forces .
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Harry wanted to join the air force , but his father advised against it.
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They may join forces with any one of the seven regional phone companies or a long-distance carrier.
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Diplomatically changing sides, they joined with forces planning rebellion.
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BAe will join forces with the Far East firm to produce passenger planes for regional travel.
remain
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Sun's no-clone policy still remains in force .
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The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush.
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Within the former Soviet Union there remains a large military force .
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He remains prepared to use force to do that.
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Elsewhere, Islamism remains an opposition force only, and, though still potent, is losing ground.
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Although its founder, Karl-Ernst Jöllenbeck died in 1991, the gallery remains a vital force under the directorship of Michael Nickel.
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The ban will remain in force for 50 years unless reversed by a consensus among the Treaty's voting members.
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Manufacturing remains a significant force , but with an ever-decreasing share of the workforce.
serve
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But he feels they were never appreciated as much as those who served in the forces .
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I have served in the armed forces .
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Reagan, who had never served in the forces himself, was a soldier's president.
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Radio was to serve as a massive force for political enlightenment in our democratic society.
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It has never been able to serve as a unifying force and if anything has been more of a divider.
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Its role is to serve as a centripetal force against the centrifugal tendencies of the ministries.
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They had both served in the armed forces , and Nathan had been disabled as a result.
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As well, parcels were sent regularly to local men serving in the forces .
use
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The paradox of using force to overcome force is here a real contradiction.
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Truman did not threaten to use force to impose his views.
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The kinds of attack perpetrated by women seldom use deadly force .
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According to Chung, Roh saw the president within hours and strongly recommended against using military force .
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Despite Boss's success, Keith used the Quaker decision to use force as a new argument against the majority.
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He was quite prepared to use force if that was necessary.
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But unlike many computer-makers, Compaq makes all its sales through dealers, rather than by using its own sales force .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spent force
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But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force?
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Jesse Jackson, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, is a spent force.
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On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.
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They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
amphibious operation/force/assault
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MacArthur stated that it was imperative to prevent the dispatch of an amphibious force.
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Marines will be landing from several San Diego-based ships, led by the amphibious assault ships Tarawa and Peleliu.
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Operation Downfall called for two amphibious assaults.
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Ross previously was assigned as executive officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.
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The amphibious assault ship Peleliu will lead the ready group, which includes the Juneau and Comstock.
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Two other such joint exercises, involving marine and amphibious forces, were already scheduled to start on Aug. 3.
apply force/pressure
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Coach Tony Dungy, once an accomplished defensive coordinator, likes to apply pressure.
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How did you apply pressure to a man you could not even find?
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If you have a nose bleed, apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils together for about ten minutes.
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Keep a thumb lightly on the spool and apply pressure as the lure hits the water to avoid backlash.
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The beauty of C4 is that you can apply pressure or heat and it will not detonate.
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The chance of Damien Gould helping her seemed unlikely in the extreme, unless she could apply pressure on him.
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The government is applying pressure, too.
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Try to apply pressure out towards the ends of your knees.
brute force/strength
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And let's not limit the language to pictures of thunder and brute strength.
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But like men, chimps do not rise entirely on brute strength.
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Even his strong-man routine seems devoid of any intelligence or style and focuses, instead, upon brute force and muscle.
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Henry Cooper used brute strength to promote after-shave.
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Teravainen belonged to the brute force school; off the tee, he was as long as anybody.
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Their only ultimate recourse is to deal with each other by brute force.
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Wado employs very light and fast techniques, preferring evasion to meeting brute force head on.
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Was brute force and intimidation all they knew?
driving force
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First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
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For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
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Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
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The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
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The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
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This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
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Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
feel the force/effects/benefits etc of sth
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Both say they now feel the effects of alcohol far sooner than when they smoked.
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He feels the effects of the night before, of a beat struck many times last night and last year.
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His body was slack, and as he grew colder and more tired, he felt the force of his will diminish.
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Kodak felt the effects of the anemic retail environment in December, the worst holiday shopping season since the 1991 recession.
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Southern California residents will feel the benefits of the new fuel, rather than see them.
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The next hour passed amiably, by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day.
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This force is universal, that is, every particle feels the force of gravity, according to its mass or energy.
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When they speak, I feel the force of history bearing down on me.
force/ram/shove sth down sb's throat
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But my brokers were complaining that I was shoving them down their throats .
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His teeth were even and white, and Bernice wanted to ram them down his throat .
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Jess felt like ramming it down his throat .
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The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats .
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Torrents of lava would not tumble out to force fire down his throat , torch his tongue.
gather speed/force/momentum etc
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I said as the train gathered speed.
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I waited for it to gather momentum.
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She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow, gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it.
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The big trimotor gathered speed and roared off down the harbor for more than a mile but never got close to liftoff.
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The strikes continue to gather momentum.
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Then the van rolls forward, gathers speed, and drifts on by.
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These Christians were slow to gather forces for a Reconquista.
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Voucher trouble Shopworkers' union Usdaw has threatened to boycott the government's voucher system for asylum seekers as protests gather momentum.
magnetic/gravitational/force field
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All that is left is a strong, but invisible, gravitational field .
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All this occurs in magnetic fields very much above the maximum tolerated by the superconducting state.
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As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.
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At the upper critical field the magnetic field completely penetrated the sample and it reverted entirely to its normal state.
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In a few rare cases, lava flows on land have taken place just as the magnetic field was undergoing a reversal.
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It does raise the question of how pigeons detect the magnetic field .
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The flow of a magnetic field is taken from magnetic north pole to magnetic south pole.
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The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
peacekeeping force/troops etc
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A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
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Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.
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It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.
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The peacekeeping force has already been extended five times, and the deployment is now scheduled to end July 31.
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They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force.
the armed forces
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A new government minister is now responsible for the armed forces.
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Measures will be taken to help modernize the country's armed forces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barnes is a member of the St. Paul Police Force .
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Centrifugal force can be greater than the force of gravity.
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Her husband tried to get the children back by force .
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I had to use force to get the window open.
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Rebel forces are seeking to overthrow the government.
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The force of public opinion stopped the highway project.
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The force of the explosion shook buildings several blocks away.
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the Air Force
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The college must cut 10% of its teaching force for the fall semester.
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the company's sales force
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The police do not use force when arresting people unless it's absolutely necessary.
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The use of physical force by teachers tended to promote violent behaviour by pupils.
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We want to end the demonstration without force .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when you get some one who can really play them, they sure are a force to be reckoned with.
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Instead, there is a narrow vision of a world dominated by market forces.
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Manuel Bonett, head of the armed forces.
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Most market professionals agree that the tax-deferred funds are a major force behind the exponential growth in stock prices.
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The United States is one of dozens of nations that provide troops for the 2, 400-member Sinai force .
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They occur in areas where the Earth's crust is subjected to tensional forces, trying to pull it apart.
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What a display of grandeur and sheer force of will!
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
door
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At the Model school burglars ransacked the music centre after forcing open the main door .
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Property was stolen from a residence entered by forcing a rear door .
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The raiders smashed their way into the trailer to silence Bob's barking before forcing the shop door .
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No one had forced any doors or windows, because they didn't need to, did they?
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A residence was entered by forcing a front door .
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He forced the door and entered the room.
hand
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The fact that she was pregnant was forcing both their hands in a way which was nearly amusing.
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His fingers pressed into the soft flesh of my arms as he tried to force apart my hands .
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Push away the arms, forcing the hands out.
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One is that weakness in the system forces their hand .
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The great imperial Zanuck was not amused at Boyo Burton's refusal and tried to force his hand .
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He then forced Ranulf's hand close to that of the corpse.
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If that is so, markets have the potential power of forcing Mrs Thatcher's hand .
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Baldwin's object was then to resolve the crisis with reasonable speed without appearing to force the hand of the King.
issue
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He never tried to force the issue .
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Time was getting tight on both projects, so I had to force the issue with him.
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In early spring, 1861, the new Confederate government decided to force the issue .
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But I was too tired now to force the issue .
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Such an action will force refinancing of the issue or can even force the issuer into bankruptcy.
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Many economists avoid talking about unemployment in public, adopting a rather sheepish tone when forced to confront the issue .
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At a minimum, they can force the issue back on to the political agenda and make Republicans publicly address the subject again.
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If you attempt to force the issue , you are told that this was another one of your dumb ideas.
pace
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There will be no attempt to force the pace at the Luxembourg summit next month.
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To that end, Wilkens says he might try a full-court press in the interest of forcing a faster pace .
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He climbed the steep slope to the Incident Room, forcing his pace , and arrived just a little out of breath.
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To force the pace now was irresponsible, and could lead to a power vacuum.
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Why loot and burn when you can participate, force the pace of change?
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There was an alternative view, however, that forcing the pace was necessary if real change was to be effected.
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But she was not to force the pace in any way.
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Boxer was forced to reduce pace at this point by the congestion of traffic in and out of the Barracks.
smile
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He forced an acid smile and held up two fingers.
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He forces a smile , and Beulah smiles back.
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The man turned out to be Alan Stewart, the comedian, who managed to force a smile as Roy apologised.
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The girls forced smiles as they had been taught, but Sandi, in revenge, also crossed her eyes.
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I forced a smile and then turned and fled to my room.
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I forced a smile on seeing him.
way
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Do not tack too much in the early stages of the beat and do not let yourself be forced the wrong way .
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Some of the rock has forced its way up into other layers like an errant thumb.
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Mrs Johnstone, 35, was discovered by police who forced their way into her locked pub shortly after 11am yesterday.
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We forced our way on and found suitable straps to hand on to.
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Burglars strike: Intruders forced their way into a house which was being renovated.
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He had forced his way into her room and cut her throat with a 12 inch knife.
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In the end they opened the door and forced their way in.
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Even the screeching rasp of a police hover forcing its slow way upstream can scarcely cut the din.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spent force
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But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force?
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Jesse Jackson, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, is a spent force.
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On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.
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They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
amphibious operation/force/assault
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MacArthur stated that it was imperative to prevent the dispatch of an amphibious force.
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Marines will be landing from several San Diego-based ships, led by the amphibious assault ships Tarawa and Peleliu.
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Operation Downfall called for two amphibious assaults.
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Ross previously was assigned as executive officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.
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The amphibious assault ship Peleliu will lead the ready group, which includes the Juneau and Comstock.
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Two other such joint exercises, involving marine and amphibious forces, were already scheduled to start on Aug. 3.
brute force/strength
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And let's not limit the language to pictures of thunder and brute strength.
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But like men, chimps do not rise entirely on brute strength.
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Even his strong-man routine seems devoid of any intelligence or style and focuses, instead, upon brute force and muscle.
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Henry Cooper used brute strength to promote after-shave.
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Teravainen belonged to the brute force school; off the tee, he was as long as anybody.
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Their only ultimate recourse is to deal with each other by brute force.
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Wado employs very light and fast techniques, preferring evasion to meeting brute force head on.
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Was brute force and intimidation all they knew?
driving force
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First, I would disagree that the Endangered Species Act is the driving force behind conservation decisions.
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For the lawyer and the judge, a driving force at all times has been the avalanche of precedents.
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Listening to the Finale in particular, I was struck by the lack of driving force there is behind it in this performance.
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The driving force of the rain precluded conversation, sealed each of us in with his own thoughts.
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The current history line is the driving force of the payroll and is subject to very high validation checks.
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This possessiveness can be a driving force behind each craftsman and his task.
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Was it feasible, was it remotely possible, that the mutation had some sort of driving force?
force the pace
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But she was not to force the pace in any way.
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Perhaps I tried to force the pace .
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So, in the summer of 1959, without abandoning association, de Gaulle decided to force the pace of his policy.
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The Care in the Community initiative in 1981 attempted to force the pace .
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There was an alternative view, however, that forcing the pace was necessary if real change was to be effected.
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There will be no attempt to force the pace at the Luxembourg summit next month.
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To force the pace now was irresponsible, and could lead to a power vacuum.
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Why loot and burn when you can participate, force the pace of change?
force/ram/shove sth down sb's throat
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But my brokers were complaining that I was shoving them down their throats .
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His teeth were even and white, and Bernice wanted to ram them down his throat .
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Jess felt like ramming it down his throat .
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The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats .
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Torrents of lava would not tumble out to force fire down his throat , torch his tongue.
magnetic/gravitational/force field
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All that is left is a strong, but invisible, gravitational field .
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All this occurs in magnetic fields very much above the maximum tolerated by the superconducting state.
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As the star shrank, the gravitational field at the surface would become stronger and the escape velocity would increase.
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At the upper critical field the magnetic field completely penetrated the sample and it reverted entirely to its normal state.
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In a few rare cases, lava flows on land have taken place just as the magnetic field was undergoing a reversal.
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It does raise the question of how pigeons detect the magnetic field .
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The flow of a magnetic field is taken from magnetic north pole to magnetic south pole.
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The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
peacekeeping force/troops etc
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A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
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Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.
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It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere.
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The peacekeeping force has already been extended five times, and the deployment is now scheduled to end July 31.
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They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a special peacekeeping force.
put/force sb on the defensive
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Motta always put him on the defensive .
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Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive .
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The Conservative achievement in the 1980s was to put Labour on the defensive by presenting Thatcherism as a continuation of historic Conservatism.
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The Sangh has put Congress on the defensive by forcing it to dilute its secular tradition.
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These two seemed friendly enough, but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive .
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This established licensing hours for the first time, and put brewers on the defensive .
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This puts people on the defensive , and they may become silent or get angry.
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You guys being a little bit aggressive at the beginning put him on the defensive .
the armed forces
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A new government minister is now responsible for the armed forces.
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Measures will be taken to help modernize the country's armed forces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the hostages were forced to hand over their passports.
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Eddie feels that he was forced out of his job in order to make way for a younger man.
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Firefighters had to force the lock.
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Her parents are trying to force her into marrying a man she hardly knows.
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Here, girls are often forced into prostitution because they have no other means of earning money.
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I finally managed to force the package through the small letterbox.
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I had never thought of buying an insurance policy, and I wasn't going to be forced into it by some young salesman.
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If you don't comply I'm afraid we'll have to force you.
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She claimed was forced to take part in the robbery by her husband.
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She tried to force her feet into the shoes but they were too small.
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Some idiot forced Laura off the road yesterday.
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The economy has forced a lot of companies out of business.
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They had so little money that they were forced to sell the farm.
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They were halfway up the mountain, when the weather became so bad that they were forced to turn back.
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Thieves had tied him up and forced him to lie on the floor.
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Women's organizations are trying to force the government to appoint more women to senior positions.
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You don't have to come if you don't want to. Nobody's forcing you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And to know these, the artist cannot force his own intentions upon nature.
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If forced to resign, get a good book deal.
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In theory, the power crisis could force the state to work together more.
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It infected his spine and forced him to spend months in bed.
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Often they were forced to leap blindly into ravines five or ten feet deep.
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The Master tried both persuasion and threats but ... was compelled at length to send for a constable and resort to force .
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To round off his day of despair Button was forced to retire with an exhaust failure six laps from home.
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When the information was slow in coming, the announcers were forced to use their imaginations to fill in the details.