Sentence examples for coercion up from inspiring English sources

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It involves such things as "lying, or at least concealment and the making of misleading statements; breaking promises; special pleading; temporary coalition with the distasteful; sacrifice of the interests of worthy persons to those of unworthy persons; and (at least if in a sufficiently important position) coercion up to blackmail" (Williams 1978, 59).

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Her extraordinary shape-changing ability, which he must have for his experimental gene pool, allows her to withstand his coercion -- up to a point.

It's also physical: touching up, coercion.' Unfortunately, not all of it is perpetrated by boys.

Perrottet is dancing in a well-worn groove in suggesting that what we need is freedom from an overabundance of freedom, coercion to make up for our lack of self-discipline.

Protesters in South Korea demanded compensation for the war's "comfort girls". Until now, Japan denied involvement in the matter, saying private groups were responsible for what Koreans said was the coercion of up to 200,000 women from Korea, then a Japanese colony, into prostitution.

The economic exploitation of children is also raw abuse, backed up by coercion and often violence.

I lugged a bucket past the forked coercion of a tree, up toward the pious and nictitating preeminence of a school, hunkered there in its gully of learning.

Some 100,000 tribesmen were forced to march westward under U.S. military coercion in the 1830s; up to 25percentt of the Indians, many in manacles, perished en route.

And that hearsay testimony can be introduced as a summary of an interrogation rather than a transcript — another way to cover up possible coercion.

If I just want to save it because I feel good driving past a giant piece of human ingenuity on the way to the surfing beach, the emotion is effectively blocked by the rules-based coercion states have signed up to.

A controversial view such as this one has, for them, no place in making law for the public backed up by coercion.

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