have force
Example Sentences
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The fundamental weakness of courts is that their orders have force only if people, including government officials, obey them.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025
We cannot have force majeure or whatever are the situations, which is not a force majeure, certainly in that case.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2022
The flashes of comic and dramatic inspiration come and go in a story that doesn’t sustain itself and whose revelations about Beth’s past, while they have force on paper, don’t register very strongly onscreen.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
"Your words have force and direction, just like his," his physician whispered after my eulogy at the funeral.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2021
Without this subtlety, a writer may have force, even eloquence, as Johnson and Macaulay had those qualities, but he is not likely to have an enduring charm.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
