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    1. Alexander’s to say goodbye, he informed me that he had been working with the UN in trying to coerce


    2. ‘Maybe not, but the last thing I wanted was to coerce you


    3. Colossians, may coerce the believer to conform


    4. The threat alone might be enough to coerce Hollowcrest and Forge into dealing


    5. “Terah!” one of the guests had begun the dialogue, “Is there no way that we can convince you to stay? You are our ‘rock’ against which they have dashed all of their efforts to coerce our families


    6. Truth serum would be preferable, of course, but it would take days to coerce Jack Kang into handing some over, as it is jealously guarded by the Candor, and I’d rather not waste a few days


    7. Senator Kennedy revealed later that numerous and repetitious phone calls had to be made to persuade (coerce) those who knew better to testify against Judge Bork


    8. As a consequence of this survival challenge, the State must compel and coerce its workers to work so that it, and all its dependents, can live


    9. To coerce God


    10. Of course it’s illegal to force or coerce anyone to experience either of those

    11. Yet the government is free to attack and to coerce people to fit a behavior dictated by its ‘liberal’ interpretations or the portrayals of some vociferous, peripheral interest groups


    12. Hence, meditators focus lightly on a point to coerce the brain to go into a ‘convergent right brain mode


    13. In those reports where light is reported by the subject, the hypnotist usually uses a certain command to coerce or instruct ‘to move into the light’ or something similar


    14. Most mystics, however, choose to remain where they are and try to coerce and educate 1d’ers to a higher dimensional awareness through mental training


    15. If prosecutors have to rely on false snitches, withhold evidence, coerce and threaten witnesses isn't this a clear indication that something is wrong with the case and the ―accused‖ may be innocent?


    16. - Sexual abuse occurs when the abuser coerces or attempts to coerce the victim into having sexual contact or sexual behavior without the victims consent


    17. Yet, he tried to coerce her into submission but seeing her unrelenting, he lost his cool and threatened to drag guruji to court for abetment


    18. This is a time for ‘allowing’ good to happen, rather than trying to coerce it by personal effort


    19. Overpowering arguments and mental superiority are not to be employed to coerce men and women into the kingdom


    20. unwilling women, whom the men coerce or rape

    21. I can coerce them into doing anything–even kill their own children


    22. I did not attempt to coerce them, the memory of my lessons in the collar too clear and painful


    23. It did Skeets no good to coerce or lie to young Duff; he simply didn‘t believe anything anybody told him unless he had first hand knowledge of it and this included Skeets


    24. had writing on it from when he used to coerce Tina to roll the


    25. Bob had told me about his capture by Colonel Wapple and how Wapple had tried to coerce him into cooperating with Operation NewVision


    26. Did she check into the room to get away for a few days and someone broke in and killed her? Or did the killer coerce her to rent the room then keep her there for three days before killing her? More questions without answers


    27. "Why do you not coerce one of the


    28. “First, I have arranged for GCHQ to mount a key-word intercept operation on Barclay’s phones, in his laboratory, at home and on his mobile, so we should get an early warning of any new attempt to coerce him away from his work at Culham


    29. The transparent plastic ball can be flipped, twisted and tilted to coerce the


    30. It is now a popular cautionary story that overprotective parents use to coerce their children into staying at home, as if to say:

    31. Is there such a thing as tough luv, or is it really just a contrived term to coerce someone to behave the way we want them to, or to relieve ourselves of the guilt of acting towards them the way that we need, want, or desire to?


    32. There are those who seem to think that by force of will they can coerce this law; that they can sow seed of one kind and by “Will Power” make it bear fruit of another, but the fundamental principle of creative power is in the Universal, and therefore the idea of forcing a compliance with our wishes by the power of the individual will is an inverted conception, which may appear to succeed for a while but is eventually doomed to failure, because it antagonizes the very power which it is seeking to use


    33. How can a true competent leader emerge under this type of war-like manipulation and coerce?” she queried to no one in particular


    34. The Supreme Being has never told anyone, white or black, the best way or medium to worship or serve Him, but the acceptance of any religion is dependent on the ability of the originator to convince or coerce masses to embrace a particular religion, principles and ways of life as a means to their quest for spiritual paradise


    35. Especially when they were trying to coerce information from her


    36. “He said he’d been sentenced to death and Lord Limu used that to coerce him into being a double agent


    37. considered, it might be wiser to coerce Duke into entering the house,


    38. Now he could hear the other children teasing him, trying to coerce him into a game


    39. That would simply be trying to coerce God, and would be foolish and useless,


    40. has no plans to coerce the South into any kind of

    41. � The individuating woman/man needs no force to coerce appropriate actions


    42. ‘God’ is Superior and ‘God’ is Greater than having to rely on and resort to “scare tactics” to enforce and coerce a specific line of human behaviour from the threat, and subsequent fear, of Self’s personal eternal damnation authorised by the Creator


    43. And thirdly, there is enough scriptural evidence in biblical verses to prove that the Creator does not have any desire, will, or intention, what so ever, to coerce or force people to behave in any particular way by threatening them with condemnation and damnation of Hell


    44. This intimate and mysterious relationship between the Creator and the created, is expressed and identified by and through thoughts, emotions, behaviours and contents of speech, that do not control, coerce or suffocate the one, or the other


    45. They can break our bodies, shatter our wills, manipulate us and coerce us, but they can’t change what’s inside us


    46. The wrongness of it got to me and I got out of that life style and I tried to bury it and put it behind me, but my boss dug it up and held it over my head in order to coerce me into doing illegal things


    47. heku trying to coerce me into a coven and for what? Am I just a plaything? A toy that can kill enemies?


    48. “You will not coerce intimacy where none is granted,” she says sharply


    49. He might look for ways to coerce her, but she was not easily bullied


    50. She pretended that this was the first time he had tried to coerce her, and she said he had simply threatened to kill her if she refused






















    1. Their tenant was that each individual could not be coerced to participate in society beyond what each individual voluntarily agreed to


    2. There were other scenarios that would keep him from fighting his mother besides the letter being coerced from her while she was still alive


    3. If a child is bribed, coerced, tricked, threatened, or forced into any


    4. Try to consider, however, the need for a proportionate response to such an act of aggression – unless of course the Eastern Alliance has also been coerced


    5. This article fails to inform readers that the former place an intrinsic value on human life as being fashioned in the image of God and precious to him, while the latter treat the individual as something to be coerced, beaten, discarded, and murdered, with absolutely no value to be attached to human life


    6. Well, here’s an addendum to my plan: it will not involve killing the men we’ve coerced into helping us, nor will engravers be found in bed with their throats cut


    7. Still, humans rarely screamed on dark trails for good reasons, and a moment passed before she coerced her legs into moving forward again


    8. Or coerced him in some way


    9. member within 45 days of receiving this book! And, because I was coerced into releasing this info, I reserve


    10. had an affair with her superiors or was coerced into ‘sexual submission’, which led to

    11. “She and the rest of these silly does have had their little libidos piqued by the thought of being, shall we say, romantically coerced, by such a huge and handsome fellow as yourself! They not only wish to be of service to you, they hope to be serviced by you! And if you command it by their vow, why, they cannot be blamed for getting what they want, can they, though it would be considered more than mildly scandalous for girls of such tender years to initiate such a liaison with a big human like you!”


    12. But he saw through Summers enough to know she was a hardened duty zealot, which meant she had too much integrity to be bought off or coerced


    13. 'False pretences' means that you are coerced into handing over one, or more, of these values to the Controlling Artist (the Con Artist) by allowing yourself to be manipulated by one of the eight weapons (later)


    14. Deuce was scared, but Albert couldn’t tell if he was being coerced or if he was just nervous


    15. Bill: Lest we have forgotten- Kim and Meeks were the two State liars whose coerced, fabricated and perjured testimony was used to wrongfully convict Michael of capital murder


    16. They coerced, manipulated and threatened so many people that things became so convoluted that they resorted to threats of murder


    17. “No, she was coerced into agreeing to leave with him to keep


    18. How did these three come forth prepared to ask from me what few receive? How did they know to seek it here, to call my name that none would tell—unless coerced to break a trust—that I may steep an herb or more, may know a way to quiet pain as learned from flowers in the fields?


    19. Interviews with friends of Anna’s boyfriend would reveal a crime of passion that had been coerced by the victim herself


    20. Crimes that involved illegal or coerced sexual conduct against another person are considered sex crimes

    21. They answered: You have not robbed nor us coerced


    22. Until the time she moved Óut lour years later to be married and to live in a home with her husband, she was coerced into having sex with her ancle in exchange


    23. Stone and our team leader, Vaughn Monroe, the only one of us not coerced into being on the team as far as we could tell, were watching this exercise from a room near the rafters


    24. forces after being coerced by the Vikings to do so


    25. a friend of mine was coerced by his family into marrying his


    26. is still a form of rape because the inmate is coerced into


    27. Zoe, those women are paid, often times they’re also coerced


    28. Or she could’ve been coerced into her


    29. verify that I have not been coerced in any way, shape or form,


    30. THAT I WAS BAMBOOZLED AND COERCED INTO THINKING THAT VERIFYING

    31. stipulated that I was not coerced, tricked, or otherwise


    32. was coerced into knocking on my door


    33. be suicidal, have been coerced or tricked into making the


    34. what Lovelace was coerced into doing


    35. He coerced her to perform in porn movies, including Deep


    36. was Pam, not Marie, who bullied and coerced the group


    37. “Richard, I have not coerced either of them in any way


    38. By a process of elimination and information he’d coerced from Mildred, one-by-one, Liu had discounted them


    39. Li Hongzhi coerced and threatened me into this; I just couldn't get


    40. But, I've been coerced down that path before, and I've been burned

    41. He was not used to being coerced and was thinking how he could turn the tables on this man Marsh


    42. If politicians eager to implement democratic reform can’t be elected, then those in office should be coerced into establishing a practical process for public referendum


    43. Wearing the penis stretcher coerced him to wear exceptionally baggy


    44. just an hour before it was time to clock in, but writhing in pain coerced you


    45. coerced her to push the button


    46. fact he hated Wheaties but he was a health nut and coerced


    47. said, and then coerced them inside the room by bribing them


    48. children being coerced to sleep with each in order for the


    49. She still felt coerced, manipulated, but his words also made sense on some level


    50. Tuvok was being coerced into playing










































    1. I explain to her the situation once again, yet Helen makes clear she has no intention of paying for a trip she isn't going on – which means I will have to pay double for my share! Moreover, my good friend coerces me into assuring her I will take the money back no matter what


    2. They laugh at that and after a few minutes banter, Sally stands up and coerces her flock into moving on


    3. For that reason, such pragmatism neither limits me nor coerces me to accept as “truth that which is useful”


    4. - Sexual abuse occurs when the abuser coerces or attempts to coerce the victim into having sexual contact or sexual behavior without the victims consent


    5. entices and seduces; and thirdly, he forces and coerces


    6. It will be clear enough then that in his ordinary dealings which give him a reputation for honesty he coerces his bad passions by an enforced virtue; not making them see that they are wrong, or taming them by reason, but by necessity and fear constraining them, and because he trembles for his possessions


    1. coercing them into saying the sinner’s prayer


    2. In his book Coercing Virtue: the Worldwide View of Judges Judge Bork concludes that what he calls the


    3. But true justice cannot be achieved by lying, cheating, withholding or destroying evidence, manipulating and coercing witnesses, or by using psychological brainwashing techniques to implant pseudo-memories into witnesses‘ minds


    4. If you are coercing your partner into doing stuff that she doesn’t want to do (and that’s both in and out of the bedroom by the way) then stop it! Force the issue at your peril! Instead; try discussing what you’d like to try outside of the bedroom first, and do try and ensure that you explain to her why it is that you are keen to try what it is that you’ve said that you want to try


    5. " He said a little too quickly, as though the idea that he was coercing her in any way was problematic for him


    6. hungry and help the homeless – without coercing them into


    7. While God wills the salvation of men, he does not destroy free agency by coercing the human will, but says: "Whosoever will, let him come


    8. Ryodan’s stance becomes even more aggressive, intimidating, coercing


    9. He could go on coercing her indefinitely


    10. [(…) all these metrical texts make use of the poetic function without, however, assigning to this function the coercing, determining role it carries in poetry

    11. Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?


    12. Can coercing these men to join in the labour make them consider that the sacrifices are enforced for their own good?


    13. But if those who refuse to join in building the road intend to utilize the labour of the others, then in this case also coercing them into making a sacrifice would be only a punishment on a supposition, and their object, which nobody can prove, will be punished before it is made apparent; but in neither case can coercing them to join in a work which they do not desire be good for them


    14. How is it submission, then, to these orders for us to trade to Gottenburg, when neither France nor Britain command, nor prohibit it? Of what consequence is it to us what way the Gottenburg merchant disposes of our products, after he has paid us our price? I am not about to deny that a trade to Gottenburg would defeat the purpose of coercing Great Britain, through the want of our supplies, but I reason on the report upon its avowed principles


    15. drew the inference that this supposed means of coercing the European powers, did not exist


    16. I apprehend the constitution means something extremely different when it empowers the General Government to collect taxes; it relates exclusively to the authority thus given to Congress of employing compulsory process in coercing the payment of taxes; it enables Congress to create, within the jurisdiction of the States, officers of the revenue, and, through them, to exercise over the property of the citizens a concurrent jurisdiction, from which they otherwise would be precluded, and from which they had been precluded before the adoption of the constitution; it enables them to impose penalties and forfeitures, and to inflict punishment for resistance to their authority


    17. Have we made an impression on the Prince Regent and his Ministry? are they now more disposed to succumb and accept your terms than before the war? How stand the people of the British Empire? Instead of their coercing the Government into our terms, which we fondly anticipated, the late election to Parliament shows them disposed to go hand in hand with the Government in resisting our claims and inflicting on us all the evils of war


    18. Sir, we have passed so many laws, we have had so many objects for enticing the belligerents on the one hand and coercing them on the other, and enticing and coercing them together, that I feel some little difficulty, in the present state of my brain, in referring to them by title or date; but it is the law passed on this subject, in consequence of which the celebrated letter of the 1st of August of the Duc de Cadore was written, to which I desire most particularly to refer


    19. "That it is inexpedient to prosecute the war, because we have no means of coercing our enemy or enforcing our claims


    20. Having thus far explained my ideas relative to the justice of the commencement and continuance of the war, I will now proceed to answer the third objection, namely: That it is inexpedient to carry it on, because we have no means of coercing our enemy—of compelling him—to what? barely to a just and honorable peace; for that is all we demand

    21. the security which it gave to our navigation, and the protection it offered our seamen, its effects on France and Great Britain in coercing them to adopt a more just and honorable policy towards us, the effects it has and may produce on ourselves, 8;


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    Synonyms for "coerce"

    coerce force hale pressure squeeze constrain hinder restrict restrain repress tyrannise tyrannize suppress impel drive insist demand

    "coerce" definitions

    to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means