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Example sentences for "armed force"

  • We were on our way to protect it with an armed force.

  • To repair them would need the protection of an armed force, and would be a matter of further uncertainty and delay.

  • It is remarkable how greatly the presence of an armed force conduces to friendly feeling on the part of the inhabitants.

  • The prospect of seeing Catherine and her son with an armed force in Lorraine filled Christina with alarm.

  • There was no display of armed force, nor was any attempt made to introduce Lutheran rites.

  • My grandfather never intended to gain his ends by armed force, and von Kerber is assuredly dreaming of that at this moment.

  • My Government has instructed me to arrest him, and to use every means, not stopping short of armed force, to prevent the Aphrodite from undertaking what is little else than a piratical expedition.

  • Athens thus was placed on terms of peace with all the Sicilian cities, with liberty of access reciprocally to any single ship of war, but no armed force to cross the sea between Sicily and Peloponnesus.

  • Do not invade us with such an armed force.

  • Here he held the enemy at bay, while one of his own braves bore news of his predicament to the English at Plymouth, who immediately sent an armed force to his relief under the command of Miles Standish.

  • In the event of failure, the Imperial train was to be stopped by an armed force on its way from G.

  • Now you prepare to invade us in armed force, and threaten to make Mpande King in my place.

  • Thou shalt proceed to the Valley of the Red Death, but with no armed force; and before this moon is full thou shalt slay this horror, that its evil deeds may be wrought no more.

  • Now I would ask the Great Great One, the leader of the nations in war, whether one man, and he a slave, constitutes an armed force?

  • At an appointed hour on the following day, he repaired to the Salle des États, and finding an armed force in possession, he protested against this act of despotism.

  • I require you to prohibit particular authorities (the commune) from serving our enemies by rash measures, and that no armed force be allowed to interfere in questions of religious opinions.

  • The democratic party had lost its chiefs, its clubs, and its authorities; it had nothing left but an armed force, which rendered it still formidable, and institutions by means of which it might yet regain everything.

  • Several Englishmen of note signed an invitation to the prince to land in England with an armed force in defence of the religion and liberties of the country; and it was brought to him by Admiral Russell, one of the signatories.

  • The emperor on his part not only refused to acknowledge "the possessors," but he also sent his cousin Archduke Leopold, Bishop of Passau, to intervene by armed force.

  • The opposition of wealthy and populous Amsterdam was again and again sufficient to override the decision of the majority, for there was no power to enforce its submission, except the employment of armed force.

  • The stroke he planned was to seize the representatives of six towns which had been specially obstinate in their opposition, and at the same time to occupy Amsterdam with an armed force.

  • The people of Pennsylvania, a part of whom were then resisting the central authority, now offered an armed force to the President "to cram the embargo down the throats of the Yankees.

  • An armed force occupied it, commanded by an officer, and captured ten men and eight canoes.

  • Others said: “Wait a bit, Pizarro is in Cuzco, and we have certain news that he will come with an armed force, and will answer for all.

  • The news came that Gonzalo Pizarro was at Cuzco assembling an armed force, and when the Viceroy heard it he was much disturbed in his mind.

  • Only about six weeks before, the Connecticut council, on the 20th of July, had sent Captain John Talcott with an armed force of eighteen soldiers, to that portion of New Netherland now called West.

  • Stuyvesant, being informed of this procedure, promptly sent Ensign Crygier, with an armed force, in a swift sailing yacht, to find the English and thwart their measures.

  • Colonel Nicholls immediately sent an armed force up the river, to take possession of fort Orange; and another to the Delaware, to unfurl the English flag over New Amstel.

  • They appointed Juan Ampues, to the government of the country, who landed on the coast of Curiana, in 1527, with an armed force.

  • If we should attempt to execute the laws of the Union by sending an armed force against a delinquent State, it would involve the good and bad, the innocent and guilty, in the same calamity.

  • No coercion is applicable to such bodies, but that of an armed force.

  • This excludes the idea of an armed force.

  • Hermokrates tries again to penetrate into Syracuse with an armed force.


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