force of circumstance(s)

phrase

: conditions that cannot be controlled

Through/By force of circumstance(s), the company has had to lay off several hundred workers.

Examples of force of circumstance(s) in a Sentence

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Whether by compulsion, force of circumstance or free will, the Mongol Empire drew many people from many lands. — Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023

Marxism has been discarded, although more by force of circumstances than conscious design, and the movement is still influenced by some Marxian reasoning; but, in general, Western Socialism has ceased to be class conscious and become reformist. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011