How to Use force majeure in a Sentence

force majeure

noun
  • In times of force majeure, a legitimate legal status can serve as a solid anchor for asset attribution.
    — Henry Fan, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Its national oil company declared force majeure after the country’s sole oil refinery was attacked.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Invoking force majeure can allow developers to suspend those penalties.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 11 June 2026
  • Major suppliers will likely declare force majeure and raise prices, following the playbook of the four previous shortages over the past 20 years.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Reporting from Cairo, Egypt Bahrain’s state oil company has declared force majeure after an attack set its refinery ablaze.
    — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Bahrain’s national oil company declared force majeure for its shipments after an Iranian attack set its refinery complex ablaze.
    — Elaine Kurtenbach, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Bahrain’s national oil company declared force majeure for its shipments after an Iranian attack set its refinery complex ablaze.
    — Alex Veiga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The attorney general alleged the marketers used force majeure clauses, attributed to acts of God, to cancel natural gas contracts and resell gas at higher spot prices.
    — Paul Monies, Oklahoma Watch, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Redlined documents fly back and forth as parties try to shift liability caps, indemnification provisions and what constitutes force majeure.
    — Danny Ertel, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Freeport last month declared force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia, in the western half of New Guinea, following a mud rush at the site that killed two and left five missing.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some petrochemical companies in Asia, which gets more than half its naphtha from the Middle East, have cut output or declared force majeure in recent weeks due to limited raw materials.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • In Saudi Arabia, if your flight is canceled or delayed due to force majeure events such as acts of war, airlines are required to offer alternative flight arrangements but are not required to provide cash compensation.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Nerves of an energy crisis intensified over the weekend as oil producers in the Gulf announced further halts to production, with Bahrain’s national oil company declaring force majeure.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Stock selling accelerated Friday into the close after Reuters reported that Iraq had declared force majeure on all oil fields operated by foreign companies.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2026
  • This has prompted several major producers of oil, helium, and aluminum, among other resources, to declare force majeure and forgo any obligations to fulfill contracts as the Iran war continues to escalate.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • On Wednesday, QatarEnergy declared force majeure, a legal term relieving the company from contractual obligations.
    — Julia Simon, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Key producers like Iraq have already reached maximum crude storage capacity, triggering a massive 70% collapse in production from their main southern oilfields, while Kuwait has been forced to declare force majeure.
    — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
  • If there’s a force majeure clause in the new rights contracts that allows the NBA’s media partners to temporarily halt running sportsbook ads when an unforeseeable event makes such airings impractical, it’s hidden under a tide of black ink.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • QatarEnergy had declared force majeure on its entire output of LNG, after earlier attacks on its Ras Laffan production hub, which came under fire again on Wednesday.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Kuwait Petroleum declared force majeure — a legal clause allowing a company not to fulfill contractual obligations because of circumstances outside its control — on sales of oil and refinery products, according to a notice seen by Bloomberg.
    — Fiona MacDonald, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Bahrain’s national oil company BAPCO said its operations had been affected after video showed a large fire at the facility’sindustrial zone in Riffa, and later declared force majeure on its operations.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • On Monday, after Iran announced its new Supreme Leader, Bahrain’s state oil company declared force majeure, which releases it of its contractual obligations due to extraordinary circumstances.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Oil prices have spiked above $100 per barrel amid Iranian threats to maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and declarations of force majeure by both Kuwait and Bahrain, who argue events beyond their control have impeded their ability to deliver petroleum.
    — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Reuters reported extensive damage when Iranian missiles hit Qatar's Ras Laffan complex on March 18, three weeks into the war, and QatarEnergy declared force majeure on LNG deliveries the next day.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Freeport-McMoRan — The copper and gold miner gained more than 1% after UBS upgraded Freeport to buy from neutral, saying it has been overly punished after declaring force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia following a deadly collapse.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025

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