Sentence examples for coercive way from inspiring English sources

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"That's a pretty coercive way to get people to vote in your favor".

But Republicans could propose dealing with the same problem in a less coercive way.

Taxes are, in fact, a far cheaper and less coercive way to curtail such behavior than laws or prescriptive regulations.

The danger in Roth's work has always been a slightly sentimental didacticism; an example is the coercive way he has leaned on the word "human" in the past few years — one of those words which always answer their own questions.

Planning is an instrument that in a "coercive" way defines urban order; generally, in its application it has to overcome obstacles of meaning that end up limiting its action, or to contrast the work of power groups that attempt to make it ineffective, or, again, keep account of the behaviour of citizens who evade its rules.

"Depending on what they do once they've achieved illicit access, they may decide to use their access in a coercive way.

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Males usually behave in these sexually coercive ways around fertile females they want to impregnate.

Tea abstention and consumer sacrifice, Breen writes, "created a climate that encouraged other people to adopt more coercive ways to preserve liberty" — a phrase of Orwellian depths.

But despite the males' coercive ways, the females do have some control over who fathers their offspring.

Values can either be imposed in coercive ways through violence and indoctrination or shared in positive ways through respect, tolerance, acceptance, and understanding.

The National Review also offers this creepy description of straight marriage: "It is a non-coercive way to channel (heterosexual) desire into civilised patterns of living".

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