force the pace

verb

To undertake a decisive, fast-paced approach.

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Meanings

verbforce the pace (third-person singular simple present forces the pace, present participle forcing the pace, simple past and past participle forced the pace)

present singular third person forces the pace · participle present forcing the pace · participle past forced the pace · past forced the pace

  1. To undertake a decisive, fast-paced approach.
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    Meanwhile the larger company was showing no great eagerness to yield to the pressure of South Wales interests to convert its gauge, and with a view to forcing the pace, the Llynvi & Ogmore in 1871 promoted a remarkable railway from an extension of its system already authorised near Blackmill, eastward across country to join the Rhymney Railway at Nantgarw, in the Vale of Taff, above Cardiff.

    1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 447
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Chicago

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