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force and on
they are fields of force exerting a unique influence on the sensibilities and a unique relatedness to one another.
by the same token, we reject any Soviet attempt to impose its system on us or other peoples by force or subversion.
One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.
`` I never saw men '', Lafayette declared in regard to the riflemen, `` so merry, so spirited, and so desirous to go on to the enemy, whatever force they might have, as that small party in this fight ''.
Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
There is not anywhere on the frontiers of freedom a more highly mobilized force for liberation.
The canons, in a body, had tried to force him on his deathbed to let them give him the last rites of the Church, but he had died still proclaiming salvation by faith.
Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.
With such a force of manned bombers we could bring enormous pressure to bear on an enemy, and this pressure would be selective and extremely discriminating.
The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.
Moreover, the shortage of treatment resources and the chronically persistent shortage of mental health manpower force us to innovate additional refinements of preventive intervention techniques to make services more widely available -- and on a more effective basis to more people.
In order to focus clearly upon the operation of this one force, which we may call the effect of `` public-limit pricing '' on `` key '' wage bargains, we deliberately simplify the model by abstracting from other forces, such as union power, which may be relevant in an actual situation.
The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.
And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.
They are segregated businesses, combining again on one site the factory and the office, drawing their work force from segregated communities.
Therefore, the sixth principle of the plan must be that it concentrate on current measures which will reduce future force requirements.
Af is the normal compressive force acting on the shear plane ; ;
Af is the friction force between chip and knife surfaces, and P is the normal force acting on the face of the knife.
The value of Af can readily be assessed by determining the frictional force exerted on the knife while running over the previously stripped coating track under various external loadings.
Another force flanked the company and took up a position on a hill to the rear.
I have calculated that if I could snap my fingers in one magic gesture to release the power of all the hydrogen in my body, I would explode with the force of a hundred bombs of the kind that fell on Hiroshima.

force and sail
On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.
In the case of boats under sail, stability serves to hold the vessel upright against the sideways force of the wind on the sails.
* when the boat is going in the same direction as the wind, the wind force simply pushes on the sail.
The force on the sail is mostly aerodynamic drag, and sails acting in this way are aerodynamically stalled.
This force manifests itself as pressure differences between the two sides of the sail-there is a region of low pressure on the front side of the sail and a region of high pressure on the back.
The wind flowing over the surface of the sail creates a force approximately perpendicular to the sail ; the component of that force parallel to the boat's keel pulls the boat forward, the component perpendicular to the keel makes the boat heel and causes leeway.
When sailing close to the wind the force generated by the sail acts at 90 ° to the sail.
The total force exerted on a solar sail may be around 1 newton or less, making it a low-thrust spacecraft, along with spacecraft propelled by electric engines.
The force on the sail is out of the page.
When operating away from planetary magnetospheres, a magnetic sail would force the positively charged protons of the solar wind to curve as they passed through the magnetic field.
Because the vertical external field B < sub > ext </ sub > is stronger on one side than the other, the leftward force on the left side of the ring is smaller than the rightward force on the right side of the ring, and the net force on the sail is to the right.
Nicetas, a nephew of Heraclius the Elder, led an overland invasion of Egypt ; the younger Heraclius began to sail eastward with another force via Sicily and Cyprus.
On 22 September, Isabella, Mortimer and their modest force set sail for England.
As Chief of Staff to Admiral Hipper, he was closely involved in Hipper's plans for a German battlecruiser squadron to sail across the Atlantic and sweep through the waters off Canada down to the West Indies and on to South America to sink the British cruisers operating in those waters, and thereby force the British to redeploy a substantial part of the Home Fleet to the New World.
In February 1744, a French fleet of twenty sail of the line entered the English Channel under Jacques Aymar, comte de Roquefeuil, before the British force under Admiral John Norris was ready to oppose him.

force and actual
Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.
The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.
In actual practice, the values most readily amenable to measurement are the cutting force Af and the shear angle Aj.
However, in the actual assessment of the cutting force by instrumental methods for any thickness of coating a number of spurious effects occur which must be taken into account and which make the measured value larger than the true cutting force indicated by eqn. ( 1 ).
However, in some situations, especially when deep behind enemy lines, the actual attack will be carried out by a platoon, a company-sized unit will be deployed to support the attack group, setting up and maintaining a forward patrol harbour from which the attacking force will deploy, and to which they will retire after the attack.
This may involve various methods to persuade a person to take the medication, or actual physical force.
The compression of the spring determines the actual force which the wind is exerting on the plate, and this is either read off on a suitable gauge, or on a recorder.
To illustrate the difference: The sound and the change in the air's drift velocity ( the force of the wind gust ) cross distance at rates equaling the speeds of sound and of mechanical transmission of force ( not higher than rate of drift velocity ); while a change in an EM field and the change in current ( electrons ' drift velocity ) both propagate across distance at rates much higher than the actual drift velocity.
Byman and Waxman ( 2000 ) define coercion as " the use of threatened force, including the limited use of actual force to back up the threat, to induce an adversary to behave differently than it otherwise would.
This actual area of contact, caused by " asperities " ( roughness ) increases with pressure, explaining the proportionality between normal force and frictional force.
By 2006, such was the confusion from these multiple Acts, each amending the others ( and not all of which were ever actually commenced and thus were in the public record but not enforced as actual legislation ); and the amendments of Irish firearms legislation by other Acts ranging from the Wildlife Acts ( mostly relating to hunting law ) to the Road Traffic Acts ( relating to how and where firearms could be transported ) and others ; the large amount of secondary legislation ( Statutory Instruments, which set out regulations, the design of application forms for licences and so forth, as well as the details of when various parts of the Acts came into force ); as well as the introduction of EU firearms law into the canon of Irish legislation ; led the Irish Law Reform Commission to recommend that all the extant legislation be restated a legal process by which all the existing primary and secondary legislation would be read as one and a single document produced as the new Firearms Act ( and all prior Acts would be repealed ).
UNMIK pointed out that the rise in reported incidents might simply correspond to an increased confidence in the police force ( i. e., more reports ) rather than more actual crime.
: E < sub > actual </ sub > = actual effort force applied to the machine
While actual malice standard applies to public officials and public figures, in Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps,, the Court found that, with regard to private individuals, the First Amendment does " not necessarily force any change in at least some features of the common-law landscape.
# threatened or actual physical force,
:< p > Refers to a person held by actual force, threats of force, or threats of legal coercion in a condition of slavery – compulsory service or labor against his or her will.

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