One army tried to coerce the other army to give up before a shot could be fired. From LearnThat.org.
Its implicit definition of "coerce" is ... strange. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: Of Coase and Coercion] Reference
Should you or someone you know and can coerce is interested is this contact me. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-31] Reference
And I've certainly been the target of attempts to "coerce" - as has anyone who has read a blog post pushing a certain position. From Wordnik.com. [First Amendment Rights Watch: Criminalizing the Internet] Reference
As you can see, my choice of the word "coerce" was spot on. From Wordnik.com. [Critics in the Post Wedge World] Reference
In what sense does Dawkins want to "coerce" people into his belief?. From Wordnik.com. [Critics in the Post Wedge World] Reference
It was made an offence to 'coerce' servants into joining a 'club or association', but the ordinance conceded. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1] Reference
Under Zimbabwe's law, anyone convicted of attempting to "coerce" President Robert Mugabe's government risks a 20-year jail term. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The doctors 'strike was illegal under new security legislation that makes attempts to "coerce" the government punishable by up to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Under the draconian new Public Order and Security Act, anyone attempting to "coerce" the government faces up to 2 years imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
To these efforts Germany answered in effect that she could not "coerce" her ally Austria. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting For Peace] Reference
Yes, business lobbies claim that unions want the option so they can "coerce" voters to sign pro-union cards. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
Will the FDIC, I don't want to use the word 'coerce', but use this to nudge the bank along to sell the assets?. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
"coerce" Catholic hospitals on the issue of abortion. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"coerce" smaller countries to take sides in the dispute. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
'coerce' a State, and tends to the same result -- nullification and secession. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Government of the United States had no right to coerce them. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Was it an idle threat to coerce her or a very tangible menace?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Electric influences guide and coerce fish in a wonderful manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Teesdale Angler] Reference
To him James replied, pleasantly, that he did not wish to coerce any one. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
And yet it was being used to coerce one useless old woman into taking a job!. From Wordnik.com. [Hex] Reference
Others argue that only punitive measures will coerce the NCP to change its actions. From Wordnik.com. [Fracture Lines] Reference
Depending upon the situation, persuasive leaders can both coerce calmly or insist firmly. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering 'The Wizard of Westwood'] Reference
At one point Williams tried to coerce a trash-talker into trying his own hand on the microphone. From Wordnik.com. [Chase Hoffberger: Wavves Come Out On The Right Side Of Convincing At Bowery Ballroom] Reference
In one case he threatened a 15-year-old boy to coerce him into divulging the name of the boy's girlfriend. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Evans: The Apple of Big Brother's Eye (Or, They Now Have a Camera in My Bedroom)] Reference
The crucial task now is for Americans to muster sufficient force to coax or coerce Washington to quit Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Soldiers Write Home] Reference
He says anticommunist inmates waged a "reign of terror" to coerce their fellow POWs into rejecting Beijing. From Wordnik.com. [Scars No One Sees] Reference
The astronomical numbers have always been a lever to coerce Chevron into settling, but the company has so far fought back. From Wordnik.com. [Shakedown in the Rain Forest] Reference
The issues here stretch well beyond poverty to the power of the state to regulate-or coerce-the reproductive choices of women. From Wordnik.com. [The Norplant Debate] Reference
But on balance, America is still able to gently seduce, not coerce, millions of immigrants into a passionate love for this place. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Our Pastime] Reference
The judges noted that "the police, prosecutors and the judge did everything they could to coerce a guilty plea and avoid a trial.". From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Friedman Innocent? 'Capturing The Friedmans' Molestation Case To Be Reopened] Reference
But ... he has managed to coerce a tentative, provisional sort of authority from a very skeptical nation, and that is no mean feat. From Wordnik.com. [Looking At The Big 'But'] Reference
He takes expressions such as "market power" and "purchasing power" literally, believing that those who exercise them coerce people. From Wordnik.com. [The Busybody Society] Reference
And it will coerce some 2,000 Muslim women to adopt a behavior and lifestyle that conflicts with their deepest religious convictions. From Wordnik.com. [Todd Green, Ph.D.: What Not to Wear: Dictating Islamic Fashion in France] Reference
With that very cane he had sought to coerce me into the straight and narrow road, as he conceived it, how many times during all my childhood!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
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