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Presumably, we would coordinate aid with the leaders of the anti-Gadhafi forces.
From the sacbee.com
Security forces battled some of the protesters, who defied a curfew to be there.
From the cnn.com
Security forces arrested five money changers and confiscated more than $800,000.
From the voanews.com
McKiernan has been selected as the next commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
From the foxnews.com
Some powerful economic and demographic forces favored certain sectors this year.
From the businessweek.com
It was the second time within 24 hours that U.S. forces captured Somali pirates.
From the abcnews.go.com
It's to get out and talk to the advisers, the embedded special forces and SEALs.
From the time.com
That's apt when it comes to measuring the progress of the Iraqi security forces.
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They think, even now, the presence of American and coalition forces are trouble.
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More examples
  • A powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
  • Coerce: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
  • (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"
  • Impel: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
  • Physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"
  • Push: move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"
  • In physics, a force is any influence that causes a free body to undergo an acceleration. Force can also be described by intuitive concepts such as a push or pull that can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e. ...
  • 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
  • In baseball, a force is a situation when a baserunner is compelled (or forced) to vacate his time-of-pitch baseu2014and thus try to advance to the next baseu2014because the batter became a runner. A runner at first base is always forced to attempt to advance to second base when the batter becomes a runner...