Sentence examples for coerce us from inspiring English sources

State and local governments have extensive information about hundreds of millions of people that the federal government could use to coerce us in numerous ways.

All of this is done to coerce us into accepting the occupier's terms.

"Every step of the way they have undermined us, opposed us and attempted to coerce us into accepting a pittance for relinquishing our native title".

And our first line of defense is the private, personal Social Security number; we won't let anybody coerce us into giving it out.

Expanding by email, Morran took issue with the Conservative councillor Daniel Moylan's argument that "private landowners have the power to coerce us in what appear to be public streets and squares".

For Fiona, the awful truth is that perhaps Alzheimer's has been a kind of liberation, not merely from memory but from the self: all those decades of habit and precedent which coerce us into accepted ways of behaving and feeling.

The artist coerces us into going with him.

But now our environment coerces us to take the path of least resistance?

Instead, it is the government — which does not accept EWTN's religious choice and can punish that choice by imposing fines — that is coercing us.

But as Arthur Koestler, who bowed to no one in his loathing of "cellophane-wrapped bread, processed towns of cement and glass... the Organization Man and the Readers Digestt," put it in 1951, "Who coerced us into buying all this?

"Diary of a Bad Year" coerces us to harden what Coleridge identified as "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith" into a willed suspension of disbelief, an act that is conscious, purposeful and informed.