Sentence examples for try and coerce from inspiring English sources
A cynical and nutritionally ambiguous method of forcing the young 'uns to eat fruit it might be (Fay Maschler candidly conceded that bonfire night provided the perfect opportunity to try and coerce her children into eating apples), but what better fruit is there to coat in a sweet gloss at this time of year?
The Liberal National party member for Dawson, George Christensen, said "eco-terrorists" who campaigned against the expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal lied about "toxic sludge" and "deliberately took the Great Barrier Reef hostage and used it as a weapon to try and coerce government".
They have decided they will use their economic clout to try and coerce the network into lightening up its investigation into the severe safety problems that have been discovered in their lethal product and suggestions of a coverup.
So I would never try and coerce someone who is of a different disposition and whose priority is family first I just ask that they read the contract thoroughly before signing on lest they realize too late that their work will not be compensated down the road when we rely on it to keep our insurance payments and when we no longer can get a job.
It's better to try and expand your baby's understanding of a wide variety of words using activities and examples, than to try and coerce them into saying one specific word.
"Because of these constraints," he says, "because of what it takes to cajole, threaten and try to coerce museums and galleries to present my work in the way I want it to be," he declared himself an Anonymous Artist a year and a half ago.
"Iran is trying to intimidate and coerce neighbouring Gulf states", he said.
Business negotiations, they reasoned, were like international relations in that they involved players trying to wheedle and coerce one another.
At one point, David Boies, the Justice Department's lead trial lawyer, said Microsoft's business strategy was based on trying to "bribe and coerce" other companies in the computer industry.
York may threaten to have the collection agency after the owner (as last resort guilt and to try to coerce you into paying, but stay firm!) they will say that it will affect the credit rating of the owner but whether or not the claim goes through depends on the amount that you owe and whether York is competent to actually file a report/claim.
Wright On the "Hot Fuzz" press tour, we discussed: What if this pub-crawl film is about an adult trying to recreate that and coerce his grown-up friends to go back?
