How To Use Strong-arm In A Sentence
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Industry watchers are harshly criticizing a government order that strong-arms banks into extending loans to traditional industries.
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The money has been recovered without resorting to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.
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Ms. MacKinnon deploys the phrase "digital bonapartism" to describe the policy of strong-arm leaders who use the Internet to seek legitimacy, for instance by crowdsourcing input on new laws or using pro-government bloggers to slur out-of-favor officials.
Handmaidens to Censorship
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They strong-armed me into voting for the plan.
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Bullying tactics and strong-arm conduct will assist no one in the resolution of the delicate issues affecting our education system.
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All of this is contingent on the banks passing these rate cuts on, of course, which might need some strong-arming from the banks new owners: us.
A man with a plan
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Bribery, drugs, gambling, strong-arm tactics, cheating, stealing, and lies make for a full day in the life of a gang or organized crime member.
Tom Gerdy: The Death of the Student Athlete
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Suge's reputation for strong-arm business tactics and how that approach was used to bribe and manipulate are also documented.
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These seemingly tough men, employing strong-arm tactics, expect wives to be their psychic nurses.
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The Senate is on high alert now, despite your sponsor's strong-arm tactics.
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He knew better than to employ strong-arm tactics, or even to show annoyance.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Joining the women who have stepped forward to be ordained as Roman Catholic Women Priests and been summarily castigated and excommunicated, the latest victim of the Church's strong-armed resistance to any effort toward women's equality in the Church is internationally beloved and regarded Father Roy Bourgeois.
Angela Bonavoglia: At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold
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Someone was going around with a map of the farms last year strong-arming people.
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Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said Republicans' fines amounted to "strong-arm" tactics, and predicted a "tremendous backlash" from constituents if the bill is signed into law.
Indiana Right-to-Work Bill Advances
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Both teams have strong-armed quarterbacks and dangerous receivers.
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Today's unions are employing the same strong-arm tactics used to oppress the industrial work force of the 19th century.
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Both teams have strong-armed quarterbacks and dangerous receivers.
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The former president says he also sees an effort afoot to strong-arm undecided superdelegates to make their choice fast.
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After a right-wing site released a heavily-edited (one might say "propagandized") video of a speech Sherrod gave on racial relations and her own personal journey to stand up for what is right in life -- which was edited down to seem as though she was a white-hating black lady -- the Obama administration did the only thing they do with swift and decisive action, it seems: they fired her (or, strong-armed her into resigning, if you will).
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [132] -- The DMV? Really?
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But in their rush to save Christianity, some evangelicals have been guilty of all sorts of strained, idiosyncratic or obscurantist tactics: massaging or distorting the data, manipulating the legal system, scaring their constituencies and strong-arming those of their own camp who raise questions.
Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals
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He has strong-armed the media, intimidated opponents and sanctioned massive extrajudicial killings of supposed drug dealers.
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Most members of the Legislature feel cowed by the governor's strong-arm tactics.
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The fire-laddie, the ward executive, the wardman, the roundsman, the strong-arm squad, the third-degree, and other such objects of American devotion are unknown in England.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage
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As Wolfe's right-hand man, Archie flirts or strong-arms his way to suspects and evidence while avoiding police entanglements.
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Both teams have strong-armed quarterbacks and dangerous receivers.
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Bribery, gambling, and other strong-arm tactics make for a full day in the life of a gang member.
Tom Gerdy: The Death of the Student Athlete
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Here we tackle our first non-automatic locks (with strong-arm tactics) and cruise upstream between banks of willow herb, yellow water lilies and ragwort.
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This is a typical example of a large company trying to use strong-arm tactics to force an asset out of the hands of an individual.
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No big loss, as Sony music appears to have strong-armed Sony electronics into giving up on digital personal stereos (Sony's MusicClip, which exclusively supported ass-tastic formats like OpenAG and Real was a total marketplace failure), ceding the market to formerly no-name Singaporean outfits like Creative and major Vaio competitors like Apple.
Boing Boing: June 2, 2002 - June 8, 2002 Archives
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Despite his reluctance, Nicholson is strong-armed into taking care of Kinnear's pooch while the artist recovers from his injuries.
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Police resorted to strong-arm tactics to break up the protest outside Cape Town's castle.
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In the first months of Whitelaw rule, strong-arm cliques began to assert themselves in Belfast.
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He is someone the camorra ‘must’ silence, but any strong-arm tactics would create a hero.
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It could have been the strong-arm tactics Danny used in his labor consulting firm.
Kill the Irishman
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They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant
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Gilbride has strong-armed Drew Bledsoe to throw downfield.
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We won't be strong-armed by bullies and threats.
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Although the offer is being depicted as voluntary, euro-zone bond markets could still be unsettled if a large proportion of investors reject the offer and Greece is forced to strong-arm them into the deal.
Greece Passes Sweeping Cuts
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It may have even strong-armed a few banks into propping up the market.
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the _Gandiva_ as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from _Kamyaka_) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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The money has been recovered without resorting to verbal abuse or strong-arm tactics.
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The national telco is pissed that ISPs are undermining their businesses, which rely on charging farcically high rates for long-distance, and they've gotten their pals in government to strong-arm all the ISPs in the country.
Boing Boing: November 3, 2002 - November 9, 2002 Archives
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Air Canada's strong-arm tactics prompted the Deluces to sue, and the two sides settled out of court after a two-year fight.
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With a skill for what he calls "frying feet," he has sweet-talked, cajoled, harangued, nagged, strong-armed and shamed government officials, international financiers and business leaders into doing more to rebuild Haiti.
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His vigorous defense in fielding the attacks made by regime politicians has shown he does not cower from strong-arm tactics.
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His confession was strong-armed by the police.
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Facing their reprisals, Bouebdelli publicly criticized the regime's strong-arm tactics -- only to have a court seize, on spurious grounds, a private university he had built and operated.
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It seems that he has succeeded in strong-arming the New York City Construction Authority into permitting him to use unsold copies of his new book (The Art of the Ass -) in place of the subcode concrete he has hitherto been employing in his massive West Side project.
Dominick Dunne Slithers Into New York Rat's Nest
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Competitors allege that he used strong-arm tactics to build his empire.
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These patterns demonstrate that the Republicans' strong-arm tactics in Florida made sense.
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The government's strong-arm tactics may squelch protests, but they don't extinguish yearnings for freedom.
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strong-arm tactics
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Already deeply suspicious of just about everything, China is no stranger to using such strong-arm tactics to regulate the Internet.
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And if they want to argue the toss about it, they have 28 days to prove they were strong-armed into switching against their will.
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A similar adjusted and rationalized morality has allowed bribery, drugs, gambling, strong-arm tactics, cheating, stealing, and lies to become a large part of the world of sports.
Tom Gerdy: The Death of the Student Athlete
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These sorts of strong-arm tactics over what are really small-time offenses is really unconscionable.
RIAA punishes Brittany for resisting
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In an attempt to strong-arm the electorate, Chirac made it clear that in the event of a ‘no’ vote, the constitution would not be renegotiable.
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He was strong-armed by the policemen
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There is, however, one class of married man that should be free to mislead and philander as they wish: guys who were strong-armed into buying expensive engagement rings for their wives.
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Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide (TV series)do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying.
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The dW Java team loves Sing, and I'm routinely reminded by them that I should strong-arm him into writing again.
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The resistance of the innocent man caused the "whipper" to call in three other sturdy blacks, and, in a few minutes, the victim was fastened upon the stretcher, face downwards, his clothing removed, and the strong-armed white negro-whipper standing over him with uplifted whip.
My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
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It's true that he sometimes had to be strong-armed into supporting these measures.
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He's now employed mainly for... "Maartens scratched his greasy hair as he struggled to find the word he wanted, ` strong-arm business.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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We oppose the practice of finger-pointing among countries or strong-arm measures to force other countries to appreciate currencies," he told reporters last month.
Geithner delays report, sidesteps China currency policy
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Newspapers are hardly known for opening up the coffers for promotion, even as they strong-arm their ad clients into doing so.
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They have been criticised recently for strong-arm tactics, rolling around in tanks, but not doing enough intelligence.
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Ms. MacKinnon deploys the phrase "digital bonapartism" to describe the policy of strong-arm leaders who use the Internet to seek legitimacy, for instance by crowdsourcing input on new laws or using pro-government bloggers to slur out-of-favor officials.
Handmaidens to Censorship
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The fact that the Prime Minister himself is said to have strong-armed London's museums into mounting the festival does not make it inevitable that it will be lousy.
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Some human right organisations tried to defy the whip on September 21, but they were terrorised by the strong-arm tactics of the upper castes.
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U.S. companies howled and called it a strong-arm tactic, the latest step by Beijing to control markets and force technology transfers from the developed world to China.
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Suppose the casino threatened to close its doors if the government strong-armed it.
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These objections and obstacles might be overcome by cajolery, economic inducements, and strong-arming Jordan and Turkey.
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‘Auntie Tina,’ a huge, jovial lady in a hot pink muumuu, strong-armed me into getting up for some island dancing.
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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He knew better than to employ strong-arm tactics, or even to show annoyance.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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These strong-arm tactics include garnishing a man's paycheck, revoking his driver's license, and sending him to jail.
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The police strong-armed the suspect
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Some might argue that there is nothing wrong with these sort of strong-arm tactics.
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"We resorted to strong-arm tactics which is totally unacceptable."
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How free are we in a world dominated by the great American empire and multinational corporations exerting strong-arm tactics on smaller nations?
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I hope you can strong-arm some of your crackpot political friends on her behalf," Cass said to Theodore.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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It had been, as record retailer Bruce Webb suggested, a business of late payments and strong-arm collections.
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The first of the strong-armed leaders called caudillos, Pedro Santana became president.
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I do think something should be done about MI and FL, but blackmail and strong-arming is exactly what puts off so many of Obama's supporters from supporting Clinton.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
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Vulcan is strong-arming a group of scientists into developing a life-regeneration process known as Necrolyzation.
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The RIAA, on behalf of its members, fights to stop the piracy of digital music files using what some would call strong-arm tactics.
