Sentence examples for tools to coerce from inspiring English sources

But federal officials have only limited resources to monitor compliance with the Medicaid law and few tools to coerce the states short of withholding federal matching funds, which would only make matters worse for the beneficiaries.

This is a trust the city should be proud of, not a tool to coerce tameness on the part of the city's museums.

He was, the report said, "a mainly opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce or control them, preying on the vulnerable or star-struck for his sexual gratification".

"The details provided by the victims of his abuse paint the picture of a mainly opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce or control them, preying on the vulnerable or star-struck for his sexual gratification".

"The specter of expensive litigation shouldn't be a tool used to coerce Internet entrepreneurs and other content creators into succumbing to meritless infringement claims".

He would expand the armed forces, double foreign aid and rule out no tool with which to coerce Iran.

Sanctions have become a tool of choice for Washington to coerce governments short of war.

It knows best and its ability to coerce makes it a tool of righteousness: it can force the greedy, myopic, prejudiced, ignorant and foolish to do what's right - according to progressive doctrine.

DOJ spokesperson Ellen Canale has stated that sentencing enhancements "should not be used to coerce defendants".23 Yet DOJ says nothing while prominent federal prosecutors openly defend using mandatory minimums as tools of coercion.

Often debts are used to coerce traffickers.

The abortion pill mandate coerces religious employers, but those employers aren't asking to coerce anyone.