Sentence examples for it would coerce from inspiring English sources

In one case in 1994, Justice Abraham G. Gerges criticized a Brooklyn prosecutor for subpoenaing a witness to appear on a day there was no testimony "in the hope that it would coerce the witness into consenting to be interviewed prior to testifying".

Opponents said it would coerce sick or older people to consent to die too soon.

Governor Pataki, a fellow Republican, has said for years that he would sign the legislation, and for the last 18 months he has been promising gay-rights advocates that he would coerce the senators from his party to pass it.

He lusted after the headlines, and hoped strong-arm tactics would coerce settlements.

He was among those who believed that the newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, would coerce the South and that the result would be disastrous.

Less observant Jews in Tenafly, N.J., and Westhampton Beach, N.Y., have fought their installation, under the erroneous assumption that an eruv would coerce them in some way.

The Inquisition soon became a distinct institution, directly responsible to the pope, in which sectarian judges would coerce confessions from suspected heretics through the use of torture and lengthy confinement in dark, damp, and filthy dungeons.

Instead, he seems to ally himself with Marxists who would coerce income redistribution.

You can just hear me bossing my sister about or whoever else I'd coerced into playing TV with me.

Speaking to the BBC, Silent Circle co-founder Phil Zimmermann said the service was closed because of Lavabit's action and because it feared it would be coerced into handing over keys that can unscramble messages.

But if it honestly cared about saving lives it wouldn't be coercing Syrians to return to the risk of death".