forced upon

Example Sentences

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The big PBMs are now trying to pre-empt change before it is forced upon them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

And while the city put together a robust response to the crisis, Adams had no desire to take credit for it, even when it was forced upon him by law.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025

Problematically, the only cruises I had been on in real life were those forced upon me in my youth — the Disney and Carnival variety.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025

Well that is the choice I forced upon my family, and they silently agreed and followed me,” he says.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024

Each nation believed that it was fighting a defensive war forced upon it by someone else.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman