That force proved insufficient and soon surrounded by the Byzantine troops.

But if force proved necessary, the Military Government was authorized to use it.

These armed forces proved to be neither battleworthy or organized.

His main force had proven themselves quite capable of crushing any insurrection.

But they offered one example of where, they said, Georgian forces had proved effective.

The forces arrayed against Microsoft, analysts say, may well prove more formidable than ever.

The free forces of the marketplace will prove the planners correct.

There is no telling unless the shooting starts just how zealous any such force would prove.

The forces of nature can prove just as deadly.

But the great German powers and the force of circumstances proved too strong for him.