Sentence examples for his coercion from inspiring English sources

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

The events in Thrace caused two of his Greek allies, the cities of Perinthus (later called Heraclea, present-day Marmaraereğlisi) and Byzantium, to review their position, and his coercion of them led to the two great sieges that showed the development of his artillery and allied arms, of which his son Alexander was to make greater use in Asia.

It has been used to support legal arguments of self-defense, diminished responsibility, or insanity when a woman is accused of murdering or assaulting her batterer, committing a crime under his coercion, or provoking the behaviour the batterer is on trial for.

The book alternates between scenes from childhood and adulthood, all of which cohere around a searing confession: because her father conditioned her to endure his abuse, the author came to crave it, to solicit it without his coercion, and to reënact it with subsequent partners.

Firstly that the offence was committed in the presence of her husband, and secondly that it was committed under his coercion.

In fact, let the record reflect that Eddie Long took fewer than 48 hours to offer a public apology to the Jewish community for an offensive ceremony, yet to this day has said nothing about the foolishness surrounding his behavior leading up to his sexual coercion settlement involving five young males.

Lind found Manning made his plea without coercion and in knowledge of its impact, and accepted it.

He doesn't weigh his fears of coercion (admitting that there is no evidence of this in states that have such laws) against the consequences of not adopting the Massachusetts legislation.

In his 1990 book "Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990" (Blackwell), he argued that the increasingly large costs of gunpowder and large armies required big, powerful nation states with the power to tax.

The Court of Appeals judges, including Judges Ciparick and Smith, sent the case back to the intermediate court with a highly technical decision that the man had not properly placed his claim of coercion on the record.

One might say that Nozick builds a "success condition" into his analysis of coercion.