The efforts of one power to force its will on another.

Some Government officials had apparently leaked the news in an effort to force the central bank's hand.

It cost an effort to force the picture and the emotion out of his mind.

A Democratic effort to force a vote was defeated, but by only 10 votes.

It was an effort to force them open, but I could still see.

I asked, in an effort to force Pappy to say something.

At last, exhausted by her efforts to force the door open, she sank down on the floor.

The old man made another effort to force the big dog into the beeches.

"Yes," Lee said, though he needed an effort to force the word past his teeth.

He made no effort to force her into the next step of the fragile relationship.