Sentence examples for bit of coercion from inspiring English sources

"It was the first time that I used a bit of coercion, because I knew that if I didn't bring this bill in, all of these spending cuts that I have been talking about would be meaningless," Governor Paterson said in a phone interview on Monday.

But sometimes, they say, a bit of polite coercion is used, and occasionally Tamil gang members are deployed against Tiger critics.

Like all Ikea stores, it is set up to force shoppers through the whole store, instead of letting them head for their department of choice: a bit of gentle social coercion, the strong arm of democratic design.

After a bit of whiskey and coercion, I join him for a duet rendition of Westlife's "You Raise Me Up".

As noted above, there are a number of accounts of coercion that insist that coercion is a violation of right, or otherwise normatively defective, of which Alan Wertheimer's Coercion is the most prominent.

Is this a textbook example of coercion?

That's a form of coercion.

Companies have virtually no powers of coercion.

The rabbis had no means of coercion.

Additionally, claims of coercion are largely exaggerated.

The unspoken threat is of coercion.