Sentence examples for outright coercion from inspiring English sources

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And then there was the harassment, intimidation and outright coercion of women by Wallkill cops, both on and off duty.

Indeed, on national security issues, the government has basically done this, with frequently creepy results.The power to shape behaviour is the power to shape behaviour, whether through choice structure or outright coercion.

Narayan defines autonomy quite liberally, as the view that a person is autonomous as long as she is a "normal adult" with no serious cognitive or emotional impairments and is not subject to literal or outright coercion from others (p. 429).

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Al-Qaida and its affiliates have deliberately shunned the savagery of Isis, seeking to build support across the Islamic world through outreach to tribal leaders, power brokers and sometimes the broader community, rather than outright fear and coercion.

Refugees may be signing up to be shipped back to the countries they were originally trying to escape from due to a combination of coercion, outright pressure and, according to Rozen, telling them that "their only way out of prison is to go back to their homeland".

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that the United States was resolved "to stop this appalling assault on the dignity of men, women and children," that victimizes an estimated 700,000 to 4 million people a year worldwide through coercion and outright kidnapping -- most of them women and children -- including some 50,000 in the United States.

However, there have been allegations that "voluntarily", in this case, translates to something more akin to "eventually agreeing after coercion and outright pressure".

In the Winter of 1955, while Yidam was studying at Taklung Monastery, his whole life and the lives of everyone he knew changed forever when the methods of the Chinese reformists went from persuasion and coercion to outright force.

Most expert historians accept that a mixture of coercion, deception and outright force was used against many of the women.

Think about the United States at the turn of the twentieth century: urban machines, often ethnically motivated, coercion, ballot stuffing, outright criminal activities.

This echoes research on asymmetrical power relationships (patients versus clinicians) in the medical system, where 'acted upon' patients either reject medicines and treatments outright or accept them after coercion (Embuldeniya et al. 2013; Gibson et al. 2012).

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