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Example sentences for "physical force"

  • This was one point of dissension, though even this was removed later by the assertion of the Chartists (who are at least as worthy of being believed as the bourgeoisie) that they, too, refrained from appealing to physical force.

  • The first collision, however, with the material forces of Christendom proved that in the system of the modern world the Chinese principle of government was an anachronism, and that moral must succumb to physical force.

  • Amid this general access of the fighting propensity, Garrison preserved the integrity of his non-resistant principles, his aversion to the use of physical force as an anti-slavery weapon.

  • That act opened a new era in the movement, an era in which non-resistance had no place, an era in which a resort to physical force in settlement of sectional differences, the whole trend of things were making inevitable.

  • I reply, the proper appeal for moral beings, upon moral questions, is not to physical force, but to the consciences of men.

  • The greater the scale of crime, then, the less the necessity of resorting to physical force to prevent it!

  • The loss in physical force is not the only one which the two sides suffer in the course of the combat; the moral forces also are shaken, broken, and go to ruin.

  • Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary, and thus render him incapable of further resistance.

  • We have in the advanced age of Christianity, those who do not believe in the use of physical force on any account whatever.

  • And here comes up again the barbaric element--the predominance of physical force.

  • Physical force itself, in whatever form it appears, is only known to us as feeling or as thought; these alone we know to be real; all else is at least less real.

  • The former is guided by physical force, and the extinction of the aberrant.

  • The error is in applying such a method where it is incompatible, to facts of history and the phenomena of physical force.

  • Euphrasia by the arms, as though seeking by physical force to stop the intolerable flow of words.

  • Physical force was needed, as the rector discovered on one occasion; physical force, and something more, a dauntlessness that kept Sally Grower in the room after the other women had fled in terror.

  • If arbitration is ever to take the place of war, it must be backed by a corresponding array of physical force.

  • There is no difference in the capacity for the exercise of physical force--or if there is, the difference is in favour of the Turk.

  • The one may, indeed, by physical force, altogether destroy the other.

  • A third party, a general of their own, for example, may, by physical force, subjugate them both.

  • In the community of nations, the first appeal is to physical force.

  • It was the Carson Volunteers that gave him the idea of the possibility of a physical force movement.

  • He thought two methods were possible; either the use of physical force or the use of moral force.

  • He thought Mr. Lloyd George's objection to the use of physical force unanswerable.

  • Still they are not enemies in the sense that they are thinking of resorting to physical force to settle their differences.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conflict between; honest money; light matter; physical body; physical characters; physical chemistry; physical condition; physical defects; physical energy; physical exercise; physical facts; physical features; physical force; physical geography; physical geology; physical object; physical objects; physical pain; physical signs; physical strength; physical violence; soon becomes; spake before; washing soda; wood light; worth living