coerce
IPA: koʊˈɝs
verb
- (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
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Examples of "coerce" in Sentences
- The opposite of voluntary is coerced.
- They did not want to coerce the people.
- The masters tende to coerce their slaves.
- They coerced the little puppy to sit down.
- The people were coerced to put the books in order.
- It was painful to listen to the coerceful commands.
- Its implicit definition of "coerce" is ... strange.
- The report tells the story of an inmate coerced in this way.
- Any act of coercion is of psychological harm to the one who is coerced.
- The right to coerce where necessary in exchange for the civil right to peace.
- Volatility can coerce the selection of the update policy but does not drive it.
- Should you or someone you know and can coerce is interested is this contact me.
- And I've certainly been the target of attempts to "coerce" - as has anyone who has read a blog post pushing a certain position.
- Yet it unequivocally states that the People "Shall not" (imperative) "coerce" the government, without defining what form such "coercion" takes.
- 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..
- 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.
- 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.