coercive

How To Use coercive In A Sentence

• This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
• Following his defiance, KSM was subjected to a number of coercive interrogation techniques besides being waterboarded the 183 times: he was kept up for seven and a half days straight while diapered and shackled, and he was told that his kids, who were now being held in American custody, would be killed. The Longest War
• Direct Actions 6.1 Ecological expropriation comes down to the coercive transfer of nonpublic land to public owners in the name of conservation.
• It is a key contributor to civil society, which is what holds us together without the coercive power of law. Times, Sunday Times
• Government debt can always be repaid, because only governments have the coercive power of taxation. Times, Sunday Times
• The British found that night bombing and incendiaries greatly increased their coercive power.
• I guess some people just need, and demand, masters and are unwilling to tolerate those who do not gladly submit to the collective as represented by the coerciveness of the state and its agents. The Volokh Conspiracy » Deadly Force in Self-Defense Constitutionally Protected, Nondeadly Force Unprotected?
• The issue is that they make exceptions to that principle in the case of certain arbitrary claims of political authority; or that they try to rationalize coercion by saying that some kind of collectivity makes it not really coercive - didn't we agree to that tax increase?, etc. Rad Geek People's Daily
• Of course I abhor exploitative or coercive sex, regardless of the age of those involved.
• Indeed, even the general survey of the results of nuclear blackmail efforts against non-nuclear states by nuclear states provides meagre nourishment to the claim about their value as coercive political instruments.