Sentences with phrase «won by force of arms»

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

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He came into office on the ticket of the People's National Party (PNP) after winning democratic elections organised by the Rawlings - led Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which overthrew the Supreme Military Council (SMC) led by General Akuffo, on June 4, 1979.

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He worked, for example, with Andrew Mackay, the commander of the British armed forces in Afghanistan, in order to «win» areas that had been «flattened by kinetic activity» through persuasive techniques derived from behavioral economics and refined «in theater.»