Sentence examples for coerce- from inspiring English sources

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"It is assessed that as detainees continue to realise their pathway proposition, there will almost certainly be a continued shift in demeanour where detainees may individually, or collectively, attempt to coerce or test policy outcomes through a range of adverse behaviours," the report states.

"And in that way the police prevent their family and lawyers from seeing them until they could coerce, through torture or other means, confessions from them".

Human Rights Watch (HRW) this week called on Pakistan to stop trying to coerce refugees to return.

The evidence against him included an attempt to coerce Bosch into leaving the country and pressuring him to sign an a sworn statement "attesting that Bosch never supplied Rodri­guez with PES [performance-enhancing substances] and had no personal knowledge that Rodriguez had ever used them, state­ments that Rodriguez also knew to be false".

If it takes the direction of vengeance, Mr Johnson, whose own mind has been embittered against the planters by family injuries, may break loose from his Cabinet; but if, as is much more probable, it takes the direction of over reverence for the policy of the dead, he must coerce his own tendencies until time and the sobering effect of great power have extinguished them.

The Federalist papers of 1787-88 argue that trying to coerce a group of sovereign states to follow common rules is ultimately doomed.

Judge Gershon seems to have decided to ignore this advice in the light of "the universal condemnation of organised and systematic suicide-bombings and other murderous acts intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population".More than 4,500 victims and families, from 12 countries including Israel, claim the bank "knowingly" provided financial and other assistance to the bombers' sponsors.

But some argue that it does, in practice, coerce.

This approach, dubbed "coerce and attack", has parallels in professional playbooks.Other research groups are getting equally sophisticated, and teams from Australia, China, Iran and Thailand, among other countries, are regularly placed high in several leagues of the competition—in contrast to their national reputations on real pitches.

But the showing has not been made here, where the prayers neither chastised dissenters nor attempted lengthy disquisition on religious dogma.So if a prayer practice is meant "to be a means to coerce or intimidate," it is potentially problematic.

Nothing in the constitution prohibits it.Which is not to say that all public prayer is acceptable, Justice Kennedy is quick to add If circumstances arise in which the pattern and practice of ceremonial, legislative prayer is alleged to be a means to coerce or intimidate others, the objection can be addressed in the regular course.

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