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    forcible


    1. I understand that Sue ‘was charged but not convicted of forcible confinement when she used GBH, known as the date rape drug, to nobble the competition!’ Apparently the model competition went to you as the number one contestant had fallen


    2. There hasn't been a forcible kidnapping on this planet in thousands of years


    3. Have a forcible


    4. And it was another reason why he was pleased to now have a companion in the city, whom he could use as a wall - a barrier to forcible affa-bility


    5. The means commonly employed, however, the imprisonment of all the refractory members, one would think, were forcible enough


    6. The Cuban will not hear of forcible annexation; it will precipitate insurrection


    7. Indonesia's military carried out all of the killings in East Timor, nearly all civilians, as well as rapes, torture, and forcible relocation that caused mass starvation


    8. Their experiences are a clear warning on the dangers of forcible assimilation


    9. severely nationalistic policies; exercising regimentation of industry, commerce, and finance; and using rigid censorship and forcible suppression of opposition


    10. 15 And having received power to speak he began so to deliver himself: 16 We O Antiochus who are persuaded that we live under a divine law consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law; 17 therefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law

    11. axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of


    12. the more forcible of the two


    13. The most common form of rape is forcible rape, in which an offender uses violence or threats of violence to force a victim into sexual intercourse


    14. Unlike "forcible rape," statutory rape can involve underage participants who willingly engage in sexual relations


    15. · Juveniles accounted for 16% of forcible rape arrestees in 1995 and 17% of those arrested for other sex offenses


    16. Webster defines fascism as “a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and race and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition


    17. Though Britain had assisted the modernization of Japan’s navy, at the outbreak of the war a British merchant ship was in the employ of China, transporting troops, and it was the forcible interception of that ship by the Japanese that almost set off hostilities between Britain and Japan


    18. Despite the end of the fighting, Jeanne insisted that her employees and their families stay inside her residence for another few days, alluding to the forcible searches and police sweeps that would probably follow


    19. Nikolai Andreevich insistently tried to make Sensei change his mind, convincing him with the help of forcible arguments


    20. Forcible intervention with the movements of breath is not our goal, we aim at

    21. It is R-A-P-E, not “molestation,” that too-mild, toothless, easier-to-shrug-off euphemism for daddies’, pastors’, teachers’, neighbors’, strangers’ vicious, forcible, painful sexual piercing of tender young bodies


    22. No one would dare to try calling a woman’s forcible rape “being molested” nor her rapist merely a “molester” these days, would they? Or at least they wouldn’t get away with it, as the women’s groups, advocates and other victims would come down on the down-player of the act like a ton of bricks


    23. It is R-A-P-E, not “molestation,” that way-too-mild, toothless, easier-to-shrug-off euphemism for daddies’, pastors’, teachers’, neighbors’ & strangers’ vicious, forcible, painful sexual penetration of tender young bodies


    24. No one would dare try calling a woman’s forcible rape just “being molested” nor her rapist merely a “molester” these days, would they? At least they wouldn’t get away with it if they did, as women’s groups, advocates and other victims come down on the down-players of those act like a ton of bricks


    25. But what of those with a religious conviction or belief against gays and lesbians and/or the gay or lesbian sex act? This is certainly a cause for tension because here the belief in sex as a private matter comes into conflict with religious beliefs which every American should be free to hold (so long as those beliefs are not advocating the forcible overthrow of the government, murder, terrorism, etc


    26. It is more than two hundred years since Lord Bacon recommended this method of study, to which the civilized nations owe the greater part of their prosperity and the more valuable part of their knowledge; purging the mind from narrow prejudices and denominated theories more effectually than by the keenest irony; calling the attention of men from heaven to earth more successfully by surprising experiments than by the most forcible demonstrations of their ignorance; educating the inventive faculties more powerfully by the near prospect of useful discoveries thrown open to all, than by talk of bringing to light the innate laws of our mind


    27. In most of the dictionaries in the world definition of rape is forcible sexual relations and not necessarily total intercourse


    28. Interpreted by these ideas, the history of typical sacrifices receives a forcible illustration


    29. The attempt to set up a serve of death, which excludes the idea of destruction, is a departure from the analogy supplied throughout nature, and requires for its establishment something much more forcible than the uninspired assertion of our opponents, that life in relation to man’s religious state and prospects, signifies only union with God and that his death eternal signifies only endless misery


    30. No direct answer could have been half so forcible

    31. Spies!" with many compliments too numerous and forcible to repeat


    32. Bound to him as I was by friendship, I strove by the best arguments and the most forcible examples I could think of to restrain and dissuade him from such a course; but perceiving I produced no effect I resolved to make the Duke Ricardo, his father, acquainted with the matter; but Don Fernando, being sharp-witted and shrewd, foresaw and apprehended this, perceiving that by my duty as a good servant I was bound not to keep concealed a thing so much opposed to the honour of my lord the duke; and so, to mislead and deceive me, he told me he could find no better way of effacing from his mind the beauty that so enslaved him than by absenting himself for some months, and that he wished the absence to be effected by our going, both of us, to my father's house under the pretence, which he would make to the duke, of going to see and buy some fine horses that there were in my city, which produces the best in the world


    33. To be brief, they added to these such other forcible arguments that Don Fernando's manly heart, being after all nourished by noble blood, was touched, and yielded to the truth which, even had he wished it, he could not gainsay; and he showed his submission, and acceptance of the good advice that had been offered to him, by stooping down and embracing Dorothea, saying to her, "Rise, dear lady, it is not right that what I hold in my heart should be kneeling at my feet; and if until now I have shown no sign of what I own, it may have been by Heaven's decree in order that, seeing the constancy with which you love me, I may learn to value you as you deserve


    34. He had a forcible manner of speaking,


    35. At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms expressed his detestation of books of chivalry


    36. The forcible vagueness of its promises, its startling inconsistency with the hundred years of ruthlessly denationalising oppression permit one to doubt whether it was ever meant to have any authority


    37. Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired


    38. It was a forcible type of the moral solitude in which the scarlet letter enveloped its fated wearer; partly by her own reserve, and partly by the instinctive, though no longer so unkindly, withdrawal of her fellow-creatures


    39. His forcible "Monsieur l'Administrateur" returning every minute shrilled above the steady hum of conversations


    40. "A Sulaco revolution," Decoud pursued in a forcible undertone

    41. He struck his breast with his open palm; his voice had remained low though he had spoken in a forcible tone


    42. During the passage from the wharf to the Custom House it is to be feared that Captain Mitchell was subjected to certain indignities at the hands of the soldiers—such as jerks, thumps on the neck, forcible application of the butt of a rifle to the small of his back


    43. "What Capataz?" broke in Nostromo, in a forcible but even voice


    44. Aside from these family visits, with their forcible cheer, Regan had by then given up acting


    45. Young Cranch was not exactly the balancing point between the wit and the idiot,—verging slightly towards the latter type, and squinting so as to leave everything in doubt about his sentiments except that they were not of a forcible character


    46. Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistencewhich, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock


    47. None came, and her next words seemed the more forcible to her, falling clear upon the dark silence


    48. A fifth, to achieve his long-cherished aim of dining with the Emperor, would stubbornly insist on the correctness or falsity of some newly emerging opinion and for this object would produce arguments more or less forcible and


    49. ta vieille inconsolable mère, not ton inconsolable vieille mère, which would be the more usual, but less forcible, order


    50. Barrande has made forcible remarks to precisely the same effect

























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    Synonyms for "forcible"

    forcible physical strong-arm cogent potent forceful efficacious strong conclusive powerful

    "forcible" definitions

    impelled by physical force especially against resistance