How To Use Coerce In A Sentence

His client still insists that she was coerced into committing the blackmail offences by her co-defendant.
Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
And the externality of being coerced is a major uncompensated one. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes?
Can we preserve nuance, detail and polychromy in our accounts of ourselves – as complex selves in a complex society – without being coerced into subscription towards one group identity or another by colour-blind demagogues? A true democracy demands constant revitalisation of the spirit of openness, generosity and liberality of opinion

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I know, I know, I can't coerce anyone into liking cats, but all I ask is that you please have an open mind about the species.
All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target.
Have you been coerced into giving this confession by any government agency or official?
Stacy Sullivan, another counterterrorism adviser with Human Rights Watch, said the Military Commissions Act is unclear on what happens if a guilty plea is allegedly coerced from a detainee. Complete Disorder | ATTACKERMAN
Where refugees are forced or coerced to return to their country of origin to fight, this is tantamount to refoulement, which is prohibited in all circumstances. 2. Protection
It is the respondent mother's position that she was coerced into accepting the revised support.
And I've certainly been the target of attempts to "coerce" - as has anyone who has read a blog post pushing a certain position. First Amendment Rights Watch: Criminalizing the Internet
In order to reach their goals for conversion, they actively coerced the children into condemning their traditional religiosity and spiritualism as ungodly rites, rituals, and idolatry.
Yet it unequivocally states that the People "Shall not" (imperative) "coerce" the government, without defining what form such "coercion" takes. Please sign this open letter to Moveon.org et al re. petitions to topple The Thought Crimes Bill
Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves.
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power, claims Mallet.
Is it not possible that just one of those being coerced is not guilty!! Balkinization
The Naval Postgraduate School has defined cyberterrorism as the unlawful destruction or disruption of digital property to intimidate or coerce people.
I would urge anyone who fears they are going to be coerced or forced into marriage to get in touch with us. The Sun
The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
Anyway, after they had found the bug in her flat, he felt himself obligated, almost coerced into frankness. THE LAST RAVEN
The movie is full of wit and stuff that would coerce a chuckle out of anyone, from teenagers to adults.
People were convicted on perjured testimony as witnesses were bribed or coerced into lying.
They were coerced into signing the contract.
Slavery signified, of course, involuntary migration and coerced labor.
People traffickers had coerced the victims into the rubber boats despite the rough seas. Times, Sunday Times
Talis namque materia est ut una dubitatione succisa innumerabiles aliae uelut hydrae capita succrescant, nec ullus fuerit modus, nisi quis eas uiuacissimo mentis igne coerceat. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
This arrangement resulted in the Jamrud darogha often only inscribing in colonial record books the potential transit taxes due from the nomads for their textually coerced commercial traversing of the Khaibar, and the sugar episode indicates the British did not attempt to collect many of these fees from the nomads. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
Free to adhere to or reject what is known, human beings cannot be coerced by attempted external pressure or used as a means by others without prejudice to the inviolable truth in which they share innately through their participation in the light of being and which they attain adventitiously through the direct perception that unfolds determined truths to their intellectual gaze. Antonio Rosmini
In Brown v. Mississippi (1936), Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes denounced the state's use of coerced confessions as a violation of due process.
Candidates are not harassed, hazed, or otherwise coerced into quitting at any time.
You tried to coerce her into marrying Liu Shengli in violation of the Marriage Law.
And I don't think their families would appreciate being referred to as the bribed and the coerced, window dressing. CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2004
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Maybe if you felt the government had no power to "coerce" religion, you would not fear the employee of the government (no more than a human being, like all others, whose paycheck is funded by tax revenues rahter than commerce) having any power to affect religius conversion beyond what any other person you might meet that wishes to express their religious views. Sound Politics: Onward Christian Soldiers
The coercers of the forced girls in this study kept them in control with violence, deception, indebtedness, and affection.
The textual constraints built into this promptuary 'do not coerce anyone' - at least, not by themselves.
Coerced abstinence reflects a shift in emphasis from the severity of potential sanctions for continued drug use to a focus on the certainty and celerity of consequences of use as the primary mechanism for changing offender behavior.
They also take direction from consortia of corporate executives who bundle their oh so legal and uncoerced donations which are not matched by compensating additions to their annual bonusses. Matthew Yglesias » School Lunch Or; How to Make Government Work
The girls were coerced into silence by the culprit about what they had experienced.
Since nearly all coercion is morally suspect, and much of it legally punishable, successful coercers will not want to testify.
Even if this particular problem is solved, if I get a piece of paper indicating how I voted, I can sell my vote and prove how I voted or I can be coerced into a particular vote and the coercer can get confirmation of that vote. The Volokh Conspiracy » We Might Know Who You Voted For:
Kirchick "rebuts" the Senate Intelligence report by noting a prior Intelligence Committee report found no evidence that the administration attempted to coerce intelligence analysts to change their judgment, but this merely begs the question since, as Senator Feinstein noted in the report, the "cauldron boiling below the surface" was the question of whether information received from "the intelligence community, whether right or wrong, good or bad, were fairly represented to the Congress and to the American people. Bennet Kelley: Lessons Not Learned: The Media Continues to be MIA on the Truth about Iraq War
Some employees feel coerced into accepting a supervisory position that they are not ready to fill-one reason being the higher compensation that accompanies it.
According to the Afrikaans on Sunday newspaper, one 15-year-old "preyed" on a schoolmate and coerced others into lying to officials investigating the alleged incidents. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
To cap their discomfort, they're intermittently coerced into becoming part of the show.
A society runs much more efficiently if people obey without being constantly coerced. Politics, Planning and the State
At times, it is necessary to coerce an unsigned integer from one type to another, resulting in a change in the number of bits used to represent the number.
The indictment provides little detail regarding how they were recruited or coerced, other than to say that one was "enticed" into having sex with gang members before she was turned over to paying customers. StarTribune.com rss feed
The previous day, the governor granted full pardons to four other death row prisoners, based on overwhelming evidence that Chicago police had coerced false confessions from them through the use of physical torture.
League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the settlement of a cleruchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Constitutionally, the Treasury cannot coerce us into any action.
Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
For so long I was a coercer, an enabler, a bad influence.
But the main distinction is this: Here, the students are being coerced to participate in a patriotic exercise, not a religious exercise. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Upholds “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance,
Secondly, a man is said to be subject to a law as the coerced is subject to the coercer. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
Claims that hundreds of voters were coerced into handing over incomplete postal votes to party activists were made in the days running up to election day.
There is a difference between feeling compelled and being coerced. Times, Sunday Times
They're there for me - they comfort, cajole, coerce, cohort, conspire, and commiserate.
Then there are concerns that, as part of the company's strategy, it coerces you into revealing your personal details.
For one thing, films basically force you to identify with characters; novels can't coerce you in the same way.
No central planner need call, no taskmaster need coerce.
He was coerced and compelled to join the gang. Times, Sunday Times
Adam also didn't mind sharing the horse-breaking chore one bit and openly encouraged, coerced and cajoled his younger brother into attempting to outride him.
But he made it clear that the Government would not be coerced into conceding pay awards which threatened wage inflation as other public sector employees tried to catch up.
The federal government's role should not be coercer but informer and encourager. James K. Glassman: A Fruitful Answer to Obesity
It's almost like the Machiavellian housing policies that coerced them into the outer schemes in the first place have been super successful.
Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices. The Lost Lady of Lone
He has attempted to blackguard the hunger strikers, calling for an investigation into reports that they have coerced their children into joining the fast.
What evidence did he produce that she was coerced or ordered out, "pimped" if you will. NBC wimped out over "pimped out."
There is a difference between feeling compelled and being coerced. Times, Sunday Times
In the cold-war era, "Finlandization" -- a term the Finns loathe -- became synonymous with a mildly coerced neutrality. Deep-Frozen Assets
And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
God, by whose authority this transformation is effected, has implanted in us the invincible conviction that the power to coerce, which He gives, implies an obligation on the part of the coercer to respect voluntarily that which he compels others to observe. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
Officials coerced peasants into voting for the government candidates.
Most of the other members of the royal family, whom he largely despised, could be coerced into endorsing the official line. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Chaos and violence continue, Iraqis suffer from exposure to depleted uranium, US troops patrol Iraqi villages attempting to coerce Iraqi civilians (in the name of "psyops"), and more. Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude
But there was no one around to be made uncomfortable, or be coerced into helping her out.
The attorney said the former detective coerced a confession from a co-defendant, who implicated his client, Howard McCowan.
They spoke of witnesses being coerced into changing their testimony to peg Simpson as the culprit.
* Hic est qui operatur ex aquis secundam nativitatem, semen quoddam divini generis, et consecrator caelestis nativitatis; pignus promissae haereditatis et quasi chirographum quoddam aeternae salutis; qui nos Dei faciat templum et nos efficiat domum, qui interpellat divinas aures pro nobis gemitibus ineloquacibus, advocationis officia, et defensionis exhibens munera, inhabitator corporibus nostris ductus, et sanctitatis effector; hic est qui inexplebiles cupiditates coercet: [5522] 1 Pneumatologia
At the heart of the matter are allegations by animal-welfare activists that brutal training methods are used to coerce elephants - which can weigh as much as 8,000 pounds - into performing tricks such as headstands.
Ali Akbar, who'd been forced by his father to practice up to 18 hours a day while growing up in the sleepy central Indian town Maihar, never coerced Alam into playing the sarode. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
The alleged victim told detectives Gore attempted a "big tongue kiss," "caressed" her "back and buttocks and breasts" and "shoved" her hand ... you know. split from wife Tipper after 40 years of marriage, fed her chocolate and attempted to coerce her to the bedroom to listen to a Pink song. The Hollywood Gossip
Tickets are priced at a very modest £6 and parents are not coerced into buying flashing neon light thingies at the interval.
If he had been lured or coerced from his house, all traces of the coercer were now apparently obliterated.
There is a difference between feeling compelled and being coerced. Times, Sunday Times
No one else in any way threatened or coerced Jones, offered Jones a bribe, or even suggested that he shoot Smith.
If they are aware of their rights, they are either coerced or emotionally blackmailed into giving up their share in the interest of maintaining harmonious relations with their families.
Nuclear primacy is supposed to give the United States a trump card in future disputes, allowing it to reassure allies and coerce potential enemies. Superiority Complex
The only time guilty pleas are allowed to be overturned is if there are some circumstances where the defendant didn't understand English properly, was physically coerced, that is, threatened with physical harm if they didn't plead guilty. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2007
These three instances may be only the tip of the iceberg as the government can usually rely on acquiescent federal judges or coerced plea bargains to keep most of its dirty laundry out of view.
Nominal, adjectival, and verbal expressions can, however, be ‘coerced’ into serving a non-prototypical function.
There is the structural violence of coerced theft and dispossession imposed by landlords.
In addtion, it was necessary to reinstate the inspection regime, backed up with highly targeted force if necessary to compel inspections the so-called coerced inspection idea. Hullabaloo
The attorney said the former detective coerced a confession from a co-defendant, who implicated his client, Howard McCowan.
Most of these groups employed threats to coerce people into making transactions or to derive benefit.
There are cases in which someone knowingly performs a corrupt action but is, say, coerced into so doing, and is therefore not blameworthy.
Obama would deploy soft power the power attract rather than coerce.
Ut in civitatibus contumaces qui non cedunt politico imperio vi coercendi sunt; ita Deus nobis indidit alteram imperii formam; si cor non deponit vitiosum affectum, membra foras coercenda sunt, ne ruant in quod affectus impellant: et locomotiva, quae herili imperio obtemperat, alteri resistat. Anatomy of Melancholy
The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
Mischa pressed the dagger enough to coerce him to let go of her.
What industries will step forward next and try to coerce consumerism when they can't win it fairly in the so-called free market?
Others are controlled by threats to themselves and their families back home; and others are coerced through brutal physical and sexual assaults.
With weak secrecy, the buyer or coercer can demand proof. Archive 2006-12-01
The alleged intention was to coerce privatisation of the national oil company into the hands of the foreign investor group.
She said she was coerced by an officer into signing a disclaimer saying she would not take her complaint further. Times, Sunday Times
More broadly, the fundamental point is that once you have decided you are going to "coerce" a person into telling you what you want to hear with any of these means -- waterboarding, sleep deprivation, hypothermia, etc. -- you have committed to torturing them. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary: I Will Oppose Mukasey Confirmation Over Torture Comments
In the cold-war era, "Finlandization" -- a term the Finns loathe -- became synonymous with a mildly coerced neutrality. Deep-Frozen Assets
Again the men were coerced under once more, and made to endure yet another rake along the keel of the ship, where lurked the treacherous gatherings of barnacles.
* Hic est qui operatur ex aquis secundam nativitatem, semen quoddam divini generis, et consecrator caelestis nativitatis; pignus promissae haereditatis et quasi chirographum quoddam aeternae salutis; qui nos Dei faciat templum et nos efficiat domum, qui interpellat divinas aures pro nobis gemitibus ineloquacibus, advocationis officia, et defensionis exhibens munera, inhabitator corporibus nostris ductus, et sanctitatis effector; hic est qui inexplebiles cupiditates coercet: [5522] 1 Pneumatologia
When successfully employed, the threat of force can deter an adversary from embarking upon an unwelcome course of action or coerce an adversary to cease undesirable activities.
He was coerced and compelled to join the gang. Times, Sunday Times
And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
He understands that Dame Nature is a great healer, who is to be assisted rather than coerced; and he dislikes resorting to violent remedies, such as bleedings and strong emetics. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
Most of the mistrials and reversals have been caused by prosecutors' reliance on a confession by Peter Quartararo that appellate courts consistently have ruled inadmissible because they said it was coerced by police.
But more often, the frames are shoddily constructed and prefab: simplistic narratives that coerce the participants in a given story into preassigned roles, regardless of the complexity of what actually happened. Robert Koehler: Cheap Frames
But in the world of multiculturally coerced public opinion, truth = death. More Racial Profiling Pseudo-Science
He was coerced and compelled to join the gang. Times, Sunday Times
Three days later, Ray asked to withdraw his plea, claiming it had been coerced.
Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
In light of that contention, it would seem that a culture that could not gain the uncoerced and undeceived adherence of enough individuals to survive would have no moral claim to its continuation.
Saturday night's boy has been texting me; he must have coerced my number out of my housemate.
As a result he becomes entangled in the collusions and convolutions one would expect from Ripley, and is then coerced into an escalating crime scheme whose spoils he hopes to leave behind for his family.
the confession was uncoerced
A strong family member, for example, might coerce the votes of weaker members of the family.
A society runs much more efficiently if people obey without being constantly coerced. Politics, Planning and the State
Three days later, Ray asked to withdraw his plea, claiming it had been coerced.
The ideal speech situation posits a space in which uncoerced dialogue can take place free of distortion, in what Habermas refers to as action oriented towards mutual understanding.
After the religious police arrested Faliah, she was convicted in April 2006 by a court in the town of Quraiyat on the basis of her coerced confession and statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them. Rights Group Wants Saudis To Commute Death Sentence of Convicted "Witch"
Prosecutors say the family was coerced into making the video.
No one else in any way threatened or coerced Jones, offered Jones a bribe, or even suggested that he shoot Smith.
Getty Images/MedicalRF.com There is another similarity between these disparities and the gender disparity that has engaged Ms. Hvistendahl's attention: They are mostly uncoerced. The Moral Outrage of 'Missing' Girls
But who could argue with the natural, totally uncoerced smiles and sparkle on all of those faces? Value Added
He was coerced and compelled to join the gang. Times, Sunday Times
Ali Soufan, left, one of the few Arabic-speaking agents at the FBI before 9/11, was able to solicit a great deal of uncoerced information from al-Qaeda insiders. The Longest War
They may assert, for instance, that crucial evidence was covered up or a confession was coerced.
No ‘consent’ can deprive a parent of his or her natural guardianship rights and obligations, either, especially if they were coerced through threats of forcible removal.
Is it not possible that just one of those being coerced is not guilty!! rln Balkinization
I was coerced into joining the gang.
The court on Friday upheld the decision, saying the policy of reciting the pledge coerces a religious act because of use of certain words.
The local banks at the behest of the big quadrumvirate might be coerced into straining their resources still further. The Titan
It instead violates a prophylactic rule intended to help discipline police and deter coerced confessions.
I do, however, claim to know the heart of my grandfather, who was fired from his teaching job in Karlsruhe, Germany, by a non-coerced boss in 1935, for being a Jew, and who was seized and delivered to Buchenwald in November 1938 by lots of non-coerced people, while other non-coerced neighbors stood and watched. Is That Legal?: A Brief Glimpse Into Why This Debate About the Pope's Auschwitz Speech Matters
I would urge anyone who fears they are going to be coerced or forced into marriage to get in touch with us. The Sun
Article 28 of criminal law is an additional regulation about prime culprit and accessory. According to the theory of function classification, the coerced offender does not exist at all.
As a result of convergent evolution of torture practices, it seems that various figures interested in coerced confessions — Spanish Inquisitors, People’s Liberation Army, Khmer Rouge, etc. — all hit upon the basic idea behind waterboarding. Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
Since budgetary constraints make these unlikely, I instead urge noted film-maker, supreme tyrant and lifelong entitled brat Kim Jong-il to take up his film crew, coerce the population of North Korea into extra-duty, and film his glorious autobiography posthaste. The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal
It could try to coerce conformity or it could become tolerant.
It is a victory for the MP, who has been urging the government to bring in new laws making it a crime to aid and abet or coerce a forced marriage.
Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks.
Ut in civitatibus contumaces qui non cedunt politico imperio vi coercendi sunt; ita Deus nobis indidit alteram imperii formam; si cor non deponit vitiosum affectum, membra foras coercenda sunt, ne ruant in quod affectus impellant: et locomotiva, quae herili imperio obtemperat, alteri resistat. Anatomy of Melancholy
Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same forcemajeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market.
The federal government's role should not be coercer but informer and encourager. James K. Glassman: A Fruitful Answer to Obesity
There is also reason to doubt that what the coercer did in such cases rises to meet the bar at which we should consider it coercive. Coercion
Let the president be seen as the coercer-in-chief. GOP: The Fight Is Not Over
She's being held in civil contempt, because they want to coerce her into talking.
Since God does not coerce, human efforts and prayers invoking divine aid make a difference in the workings of chance and necessity.
Should you or someone you know and can coerce is interested is this contact me. Archive 2008-08-31
The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
The implicit rule seems to be that when chiefs speak, you must make yourself listen to them; they do not need to persuade or coerce you to listen.
But those very wonders are also symbols of oppressive and overbearing states that could coerce hundreds of thousands to spend their lives laboring on projects erected to enhance the ruling class.
You don't need to "coerce" the converted.. the Supreme Court of Canada clearly reflects the interests and ideals of the Government who appointed them.. and they are completely devoid of direct political pressure.. And if you don't like their principles ...: Part 5,921.
Once she is coerced into signing adoption papers, she's bundled out of the way and into the convent to save her parents further humiliation.
I would urge anyone who fears they are going to be coerced or forced into marriage to get in touch with us. The Sun
Thus, it's refreshing to have an opportunity to see an intelligent slice of beefcake use his masculine wiles to seduce and coerce a woman to do his bidding.
The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
In giving some better traits in Nebuchadnezzar's character, Daniel agrees with Jer 39: 11; 42: 12. changed the king's word -- have made the king's attempt to coerce into obedience vain. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
She linked it back to the government's ability to coerce statements out of key intelligence officials for their own political ends.
She wrote, Coerced invisibility is a principal form of anti-gay discrimination. Hayley Gorenberg: Gay Rights as Human Rights
Lawyers expressed concern that women could be coerced and forced to accept apparently voluntary agreements to their disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it must be by sane means that he trick and coerce the crew into following him.
He was coerced into signing the contract.
In postcolonial India and China, where billions are now being coerced into a transition from agrarian to urban industrial economies(Sentencedict), this cycle had barely begun before it began to splutter.
The lawsuit claims that as the prosecution's case began to "evaporate" in 1995 — with three witnesses either recanting, refusing to cooperate or fleeing the area in violation of probation — Mr. Vecchione employed illegal tactics to coerce the witnesses into giving false statements and testimony. Freed Prisoner Alleges Prosecutorial Misconduct
Ray withdrew his confession, saying that he had been coerced by the police.
I would urge anyone who fears they are going to be coerced or forced into marriage to get in touch with us. The Sun
Despite repeated warnings from the police and the relatives about not letting strangers in she was just coerced into it.
He was coerced into making a confession.
Ancestral women would have suffered higher costs if they were raped or sexually coerced during the fertile phase of their reproductive cycle.
She called the coerced confessions “entirely incredible” and said they “defy belief.” Kollar-Kotelly Orders al-Rabiah Released | ATTACKERMAN
Its implicit definition of "coerce" is ... strange. Discourse.net: Of Coase and Coercion
Summary of Livers lawsuit: Alleges false arrest, pointing to what it calls a coerced interrogation of Livers, whose mental disability made him far more likely to give in to the demands of a stressful interrogation. Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
Divide the insurgents from the greater pool of potential insurgents: those who can be persuaded to join the insurgency — or, to go a step further, those who can be either persuaded or coerced into not bandwagoning with the counterinsurgent force. The Last Shall Be The First Tonight | ATTACKERMAN
Torture is often defined as the infliction of intense pain to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
A confession cannot fairly be called 'uncoerced' that results from the sort of calculated manipulation that appears to be present here - even if the police did not actually beat or torture the confessor, or threaten to do so," Judge Robert S. Smith wrote in a concurring opinion. NYT > Home Page
But the candidate state religion may also itself have doctrines that eschew entanglement with worldly power, that warn against ostentatious display of religiosity, or that hold only truly uncoerced religious observance as pleasing to God. Pluralisms
They were coerced into signing the contract.
But when he answered, finally, they knew it would be him -- and uncoerced. THE SCAR
The mortgagor alleges that the solicitors were not a disinterested party and colluded with its client in order to coerce the mortgagee to give a release and give up its right to pursue its claims.
Both involve the use of unendurable physical pain to coerce the victim into talking – that is to say, both are the use of torture to coerce confessions. Matthew Yglesias » If Marc Thiessen Doesn’t Want to be Compared to the Spanish Inquisition, He Should Stop Advocating Torture Techniques Used in the Spanish Inquisition
I support self-ownership, and hence oppose coerced euthanasia or delegated self-murder.
Somehow, magically, these evildoers coerce the young to commit suicide.
Because it is a serious offense in Nigeria to enter without a valid visa, the victim's illegal entry may be used by the scam artists as leverage to coerce the victims into releasing funds.
It explains the kinds of tactics interrogators are likely to use to coerce you into confessing or divulging information.
I was never coerced or forced into doing anything I didn't like.
spend a lot of money honestly" on such a project, because interest in interdisciplinary work could not be coerced. Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography
The temptresses then coerce the hapless chaps into making complete fools of themselves.
If there is any scope for the will, Vernant notes, it is certainly not autonomous will in the Kantian sense, but a will bound by fear of divine powers, if not actually coerced by them.

How To Use Coerce In A Sentence

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