Sentence examples for coercive in from inspiring English sources

Good bad painting has an unquestionable impact, but it has something overt, coercive in its means.

An act needs to be coercive in nature to be considered interventionism.

I find something hand-wringing and coercive in the film's emotionalism; it may well win - though awards for its leading performers would be more just.

The inhabitants in fact largely arrived by government incentive -- coercive, in the Indians' case, and an exaggerated claim of irrigation-born farm riches in that of the whites.

She concluded, "It is likely that the interrogative techniques used by the officers over an extended period of time were coercive in nature for Mr. Goldwire, given his cognitive and developmental disabilities".

It seems to me that, if someone is in detention for six weeks without knowing why, and they therefore have no notion of whether they will be able to get out without being charged, that detention is coercive in itself.

The Jacobson home was well off, liberal in politics and non-coercive in matters of religion.

Bregman distances satisfying (37) are called r-coercive in [35].

They also engage in more frequent same-sex activity (both coercive and non-coercive) in custody than men who did not have sex with men prior to incarceration [ 14– 16].

"I think there probably is a perceived coercive element in this movement in that if you're not part of it you are somehow suspect," Balmer said.

To describe the frequency and nature of coercive measures in admission wards in the German speaking part of Switzerland.