Intervention implies a decision to, if necessary, use substantial force.

But as a social and legal movement, the call for reparations has taken on substantial force this year.

For the first time in his life he contemplated the coming of death as a real and substantial force.

The British, who had substantial forces in the region, said that they would be forced to intervene if the violence did not stop.

Nevertheless, substantial forces remained in other areas for several months.

A long siege might have kept a substantial French force from being used in the winter campaign.

Right now they would follow-not all, of course, but enough for a substantial force.

But even if it's taking them a while to get organized, that's still a fairly substantial force.

So you have almost 3 million visitors, which makes it a fairly substantial cultural force.

Some liberals, on the other hand, said the administration's arguments had substantial force.