Sentence examples for then coerce from inspiring English sources

Sell the razors and then coerce people to buy the blades.

To preserve their goodwill with GenX, big companies like WalMart have to be green, and then coerce their suppliers to be green as well.

Edgerly attempted to force her to have intercourse and then coerced her into oral sex.

In Mexico, I was given drugs, then coerced into going topless for a shoot.

He then coerced the passenger to have sex with him in a nearby park, the police said.

But once the Palestinian exodus began, Jewish leaders, struck by their good fortune, first encouraged it, then coerced it, then sought to make it stick.

Yuan then coerced parliament into electing him formally to the presidency, and he was inaugurated on October 10, the second anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution.

"There is a suspicion that some of the women, especially those from Eastern and Central Europe, have been brought to Iceland under false pretenses and then coerced to work as striptease dancers or prostitutes," the panel said.

In Quito, on an impromptu visit to an evening meeting of the local Bolívar Society, he finds himself surrounded by "right-wing, sartorially correct fanatics" and welcomed by a bald general who "lacked only a monocle to resemble one of the Ruritanian-style villains in 'Tintin.' " As a "Bolívarian visitor from England," he is then coerced into giving an impromptu speech.

They were given drink and drugs; they were shown attention to make them feel special, all of which was insincere and designed solely to make them feel indebted to their abusers; they were then coerced into sexual acts by emotional pressure, intimidation, threats and violence.

Are individuals then coerced to recognize their subjection to state power against their will?