It is not simple to gauge the force of blow required.

Candice didn't move, but her words had the force of blows.

The force of blows and blocks shivered up her arm.

Her arm shook with the force of blows she chose not to strike.

They have natural springiness that increases the force of blows and provide a good grip.

Such was the force of blow, Jack's pumpkin bounced to the floor, rolled through a tapestry-curtained door and disappeared.

Marilynne Robinson is a magnificent stylist whose sentences often carry the force of blows to your heart.

The paladin thought this behavior very uncivil; and by force of blows made his horse carry him into the water in pursuit of the ship.

Some fighters - like De La Hoya and Robinson - complained that the system discounts the real force of blows and ignores aggressiveness and ringmanship.

For the living, sports medicine now has its own version of the Breathalyzer — a helmet equipped with accelerometers that can quantify both the number and the cumulative force of blows sustained.

Measuring the force of blows to the head won't immediately lead to a concussion-prevention application, but Kevin Guskiewicz, a committee member and chairman of the department of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina, said the information-gathering nevertheless should begin as soon as possible.

Not by force of blows does His rule assert its claims.(20) It is established by witnessing to the truth and by hearing the truth, and it extends its dominion by the love whereby Christ, lifted up on the cross, draws all men to Himself.(21)