Sentence examples for coerce in from inspiring English sources

His relaxed modesty doesn't flatter or coerce in the way the odd flashes of directing technique that unaccountably spurt out of "Money" try to: he's not trying to woo anybody.

The principle has been clear ever since St Thomas Aquinas said that sins and crimes are different things; and at least since the second Vatican council, the Catholic church has argued that religions should not be privileged by the state, that the state cannot coerce in matters of faith, and that citizenship is not contingent on beliefs or membership of institutions.

All told, throughout Locke's public writings there are just a handful of instances of terms "coercion" and "coerce" in the Essays on the Law of Nature, and "coercive" in "A Third Letter for Toleration".

For the participants, it seems to be ethically challenging to apply coercion, or their 'license to coerce', in good ways.

Let the president be seen as the coercer-in-chief.

He also says, "None of the Church staff involved were coerced in any way to assist Mr. Cruise.

Tells about the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that a juror had been coerced in the McCrimmon and Minnit joint trial.

According to the International Labour Organisation, an estimated 21 million people are trapped or coerced in labour exploitation around the world.

For a modern young woman, suddenly becoming the centre of attention – idolised in public, but coerced in private – can be traumatic, as Diana discovered.

Journalists would be followed, tapped and coerced in court to reveal sources, chilling the flow of information to the taxpaying public.

It was not a relaxed childhood, as Hill and her brother (also adopted) were coerced in the bourgeois gentility of St Albans.