Example Sentences

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He has ordered federal agents to videotape all interrogations, to reduce the likelihood that police will coerce confessions, especially from the most vulnerable.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 25, 2014

"I think the oil companies will coerce standardization at some point," and that "would be a death knell for the suppliers," he said.

From Reuters • Nov. 13, 2013

If necessary, of course you will coerce them, but as much as possible show them that we come as friends rather than as foes.”

From Hurricane Hurry by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The only check to be alleged is a sentiment, which will coerce none who do not hold that sentiments are the better part of the world's wealth.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

A Circumstance that will coerce one man will have no effect upon a man of a different temperament.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark