Sentence examples for coercive essence from inspiring English sources

In some ways the coercive essence of the laogai system has not changed at all: starvation, torture and psychological manipulation continue to be used to break down the prisoner's will, force him to confess to "crimes" he did not commit and beg the state's forgiveness.

It's risk-free crony "capitalism," warped corporatism, the essence of decaying emerging-market nations in crisis, in which the coercive power of the government is harnessed by a corrupt financial elite for its own benefit and at everyone else's expense, to ensure that people like Harold Ford can maintain their chauffeurs and weekly pedicures and helicopter rides he strangely boasted of enjoying.

Sound coercive?

Clearly coercive".

And coercive.

Because law is coercive.

Coercive, shameful or liberating?

And that is coercive control.

Workfare is coercive.

Simultaneously sentimental and coercive.

He didn't do anything coercive.