1.   On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.

2.   As a political leader he was something of a spent force.

3.   Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force.

4.   He is a spent force.

5.   They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.

6.   At that time, the IRA was largely a spent force and had few guns.

7.   But in politics, the deal of integration is a spent force.

8.   Compared with those years, anti-pol populism seems like a spent force.

9.   Even many of his followers began regarding him as a spent force.