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force majeure

/French fawrs ma-zhœr/US // French fɔrs maˈʒœr //

不可抗力,不可抗拒的力量,不可抗拒的因素,不可抗拒因素

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural forces majeures [French fawrs ma-zhœr]. /French fɔrs maˈʒœr/. Law.

    • : an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.

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Examples

  • So I think these were things that we wanted to have happen, but this is kind of like a force majeure and I think we’re going to continue with the virtual dance world.

  • Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.

  • Shortly after dawn, there was another outbreak of deadly force.

  • And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.

  • Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

  • The Pentagon said Faal served in the Air Force for seven years, during which time he became a U.S. citizen.

  • The Goliath wouldn't answer; the Dublin said the force was coming off, and we could not get into touch with the soldiers at all.

  • For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.

  • But you are mistaken in thinking the force west consists of the entire Merrill Horse.

  • She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.

  • In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.