Sentences with phrase «by force of arms»

If effect, there is no longer a civilian government of any kind: the military are competing amongst themselves for the right to rule Mali, and that right will be won by force of arms.

For my part, I do not see how a law which requires all of us to celebrate with funfare, feasting and dancing the overthrow by force of arms of a democratically elected government can exist side by side with these constitutional provisions...»

«Hezbollah was able in past decades to impose a reality in Lebanon by force of arms directed at the chests of Syrians and Lebanese,» he said.

They would take on the authorities of their day by force of arms and die, gloriously or ingloriously, to be remembered as heroes and patriots.

Though suppressed by force of arms and economic pressure, the memory of this great upsurge lived for a long time.

Much of Israel's political history is written in terms of attempts by force of arms, diplomacy, or tribute money to keep her independence.

The Zealots sought the fulfillment of this hope by trying by force of arms to throw off the Roman yoke.

We may face the tragic necessity of imposing international law by force of arms, but we can do so in the hope that once the principles of Isaiah's vision are enforced, they will be voluntarily accepted.

He who would assist a lord of men in harmony with the Tao will not assert his mastery in the kingdom by force of arms.

Accordingly the book of Joshua, while here and there acknowledging a slow, long - sustained process of occupation - acquisition, understandably emphasizes a total and utterly decisive conquest of the entire land by force of arms.

Even under the inhibitions which now restrict the activity of the United Nations forces and the corresponding military advantages which accrue to Red China, it has been shown its complete inability to accomplish by force of arms the conquest of Korea.

He «brought peace» by using armies to stamp out any dissent («they create a desert, and call it peace,» as the historian Tacitus memorably has it); the Christmas story in the Bible scorns any who try to bring peace by force of arms.

56 Can the only solution be to mandate intervention by a force of armed women?

Or ought it not rather to be alledged as a proof of our sense: Since it wou'd be rather fool - hardiness than courage to withstand brutes, who want the sense to be overcome by reason, and whom we want vigour to repel by force of arms?

Are we witnessing here a remilitarization of Jesus, a move from the Human One who receives the kingdom to a Son of David who wins it and maintains it by force of arms?

Britain did not give America its independence; the American colonists demanded it and won it by force of arms.