Slovak English Dictionary

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sila in English:

1. force


I consider the Jehovah's witnesses who knock on my door all the time to be no different from religious zealots trying to force their beliefs on me.
Don't force me.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
The restraining role that the community once played is losing its force as adults become reluctant to reprimand other people's unruly children.
Among the people of the colonies suffering under Earth's tyranny a force emerges intending to overthrow the status quo through terrorism.
Up till now America has called itself the world's police and continued suppression relying on military force.
Career opportunities, flex-time, satellite offices, and more childcare facilities are required to make women at home join the work force.
Boeing's safety experts have joined others in the industry to form an international task force to try to eliminate one particular kind of air crash known as controlled flight into terrain, CFIT.
This is not about my capabilities. Even if I never had heard the slightest sound of english, I still could kneel down and put my face on the ground to show my submission. But who can force me into that?
The sexes differ, not only in stature and muscular force, but perhaps even more decisively in temperament, and this must early have given rise to a corresponding division of labour.
The police were able to control the crowd by sheer force of numbers. The force of gravity. Fishermen are always at the mercy of the forces of nature. Force of habit.
They are forced to commit further, often more violent crimes, until the situation gets totally out of control.

English word "sila"(force) occurs in sets:

1000 most important Slovak nouns 151 - 200

2. strength


Save your strength.
It drew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy, who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
There is a kind of idealism which says that if you just do your best, you will be able to do anything, regardless of intelligence or physical strength.
The strongest is never strong enough to always be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. From there derives the right of the strongest.
There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.
I think my biggest strength is that my knowledge was built on practice. The majority of technical tasks I did myself.
We have to be ready not only for a straightforward test of strength, but also for a struggle in which every strategy comes into play.
You cannot compare the strength of a man to that of a tiger, but nevertheless, the tiger is still the inferior creature.
We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.
Physical strength is an important attribute as far as search and rescue dogs are concerned.

English word "sila"(strength) occurs in sets:

1000 most important Slovak nouns 501 - 550