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View definitions for have force

have force

verb as in tell

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We see in some of our own research, Black folks are two to four times more likely to have force used on them than white folks in this country.

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We see the folks with serious mental illness are sometimes up to 12 times more likely to have force used on them than folks without.

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We cannot have force majeure or whatever are the situations, which is not a force majeure, certainly in that case.”

When he finds a wine opener and tries to use it to open the faucet, he thinks about how “Thousands of years from now, his preserved skeleton will be on display in a museum suspended by invisible force fields. They’ll totally have force fields by then. In his bony hand will rest a primitive artifact of unclear purpose.”

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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