Preposition
by force of
Because of
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. Ellen Glasgow
The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union. James Buchanan
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. J. Michael Straczynski
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity. Immanuel Kant