in force
Speech parts
1. in force - Phrase
2. in force - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
exerting force or influence
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Examples
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force.