unnecessary force

  • 1force — 1 n 1: a cause of motion, activity, or change intervening force: a force that acts after another s negligent act or omission has occurred and that causes injury to another: intervening cause at cause irresistible force: an unforeseeable event esp …

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  • 2unnecessary — I adjective auxiliary, avoidable, dispensable, excess, excessive, expendable, expletive, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, gratuitous, inessential, irrelevant, needless, non necessarius, noncompulsory, optional, overmuch, redundant, spare,… …

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  • 3Unnecessary Fuss — is a film produced by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania s Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia.The footage was shot in 1983 4 by the… …

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  • 4Force 10 from Navarone (film) — Infobox Film name = Force 10 From Navarone caption = film poster by Brian Bysouth imdb id = 0077572 writer = Robin Chapman George MacDonald Fraser (uncredited) starring = Robert Shaw Edward Fox Harrison Ford Barbara Bach director = Guy Hamilton… …

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  • 5Force Bill — The United States Force Bill (enacted March 21833) authorized U.S. President Andrew Jackson s use of whatever force necessary to enforce tariffs. It was intended to suppress South Carolina s nullification of tariffs. Opponents of the bill… …

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  • 6force and arms — A phrase used in common law pleading in declarations of trespass and in indictments, but now unnecessary, to denote that the act complained of was done with violence …

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  • 7force and arms — A phrase used in common law pleading in declarations of trespass and in indictments, but now unnecessary, to denote that the act complained of was done with violence …

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  • 8excessive force — Force which is unnecessary and unreasonable in the performance of an act otherwise lawful, such as the use of force in self defense so far beyond a necessity of the case as to appear vindictive. 6 Am J2d Asslt & B § 162. Force used in making an… …

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  • 9Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War —   …

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  • 10Economy of force — is the principle of employing all available combat power in the most effective way possible, in an attempt to allocate a minimum of essential combat power to any secondary efforts. It is the judicious employment and distribution of forces towards …

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