It is a drama in which two men speak at cross purposes: one asserts his honest intentions and his need to return to London for the birth of his daughter, while the other insists upon a conspiracy theory, and coerces corroboration.
The firm says it coerces no one because all are free to take their chances with the police.
But the court will consider other questions, too: whether the law coerces states to expand Medicaid; whether the rest of the law can stand if the mandate is struck down; and even whether the whole case should be postponed until the mandate takes effect in 2014.
God never coerces, though with reformative intention he may punish.
Worth the price of admission alone, its knowingly humble pleas to speak her mind, within a culture that coerces her into silence, acknowledges what cannot be said even as De la Cruz finds ways to say it.
Like Paine, they regarded government as at best a necessary evil not, however, because it coerces but because it too often interferes with the struggle for survival that nature imposes on human beings as much as on other species (see natural selection).
Pharaoh (Jack Hawkins) coerces an enslaved architect to build an impregnable tomb — a pyramid — to preserve his plundered riches for the afterlife.
(There's a nauseating scene in which Pinochet coerces the priest into praising his writerly gifts: "I've published countless articles in journals…on all sorts of topics, but always of course related to military matters").
It's a father-son story, told in a close third-person tone that flirts with sounding like a police procedural, and it's a conspicuously uneventful story, even as it feels throughout as if something is about to happen; that's its mood; it also sort of coerces the reader into the son's fairly melodramatic take on life, a take which it then undermines.
Rather, it requires that our action, even when it coerces the other (as boycotts, strikes, sit-ins and human blockades often do), does not aim to destroy that other in his or her humanity.
The abortion pill mandate coerces religious employers, but those employers aren't asking to coerce anyone.
