Sentence examples for was being coerced from inspiring English sources

In response, his family said the images suggested he was being coerced into eating, and repeated their demands for his instant release.

Soon afterward, the defense in the case moved for a mistrial, arguing that the jury -- which has been deliberating for nine days -- was being coerced into reaching a verdict.

Last July Mr Lee, feeling that Taiwan was being coerced by America to bargain, restated the island's ambitions in a manner that incensed the mainland leaders: negotiations could occur, he said, only in a context of "special state-to-state" relations.

That was the finding later made by a state justice in Queens who decided — "much to my amazement," Mr. Hyman acknowledged — that a suspect could infer he was being coerced because he was surrounded at the time by a half-dozen police officers.

Some observers were suspicious of the fact that, in 2005, as U.S. Attorney, Christie had declined to indict Norcross, who was under investigation after a South Jersey town councilman told the police that he was being coerced and possibly bribed by Democrats to fire a municipal employee.

Speaking on Sky television late on Tuesday, Morrison said the suggestion that people was being "coerced" to return were "ridiculous" because "these are voluntary returns, there are around half a dozen Syrians on Manus Island and none of them have gone back to Syria".

The vulnerable Quinceys were being coerced.

The N.C.A.A. knew that players were being coerced to lie — and did nothing to stop it.

It's somebody saying, 'I really don't want this, I'm being coerced into it'.

A growing number of Afghan children are being coerced into a life of sexual abuse.

A growing number of Afghan children are being coerced into a life of abuse.