Sentence examples for coerces us from inspiring English sources

The artist coerces us into going with him.

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

"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.

The same compulsion that kept us searching for food coerces us to open emails from Groupon and Appsumo.

Productive power is at work when individuals internalize norms and police themselves to stay in accordance with them; it co-opts us rather than coerces us.

It coerces us into accepting the myth that there was "nothing here but bush", and what's more, that colonisation defines our nation.

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

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.

"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.

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?