How to Use coercion in a Sentence

coercion

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  • Japan is hosting the G-7 summit this month, and at the top of its agenda is economic coercion.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
  • Real harm happened when the state used its powers of coercion in pursuit of this aim.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022
  • He was expected to return to court again on Sept. 21 and receive a sentence of 30 days in jail and five years of probation for the coercion charge.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There are times when peer pressure does involve coercion and when kids will need refusal skills.
    — Phyllis Fagell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • So that was an attempt essentially to use subterfuge and trickery and coercion to overthrow the will of the people.
    — NBC News, 19 June 2022
  • The treaty was signed by the Lakota under coercion, which included threats of cannon fire and the withholding of food rations.
    — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Anything less than this is coercion, and coerced consent is no consent at all.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • After some further coercion and bear calls, the mother eventually climbed out of the drain.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Some OpenAI employees have rejected the idea that there was any coercion to sign the letter.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The governments knew full well that without the protection of the U.S. they would be exposed to Soviet coercion.
    — CBS News, 29 June 2022
  • But the thing that concerns me the most is the potential for North Korea to take the lesson that nuclear threats and nuclear coercion will lead to restraint on the part of the U.S. and its allies.
    — CBS News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But for the farmers in Madou township, the impact of China’s economic coercion has already been felt.
    — Gladys Tsai, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
  • All of this means that the new group of Ethereum validators could prove more vulnerable to government coercion than the old Ethereum miners were.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Each was the work of an autocratic regime with a penchant for coercion and violence.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The regime has been forced to rely on blunt coercion, a tactic that alienates the population the more frequently it is deployed.
    — David Faris, The Week, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The same elder appeared on the episode, denying allegations of mind control and coercion and promising that the church helped many people.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Anya and others described a wrenching process of coercion, deception and force as children were shipped to Russia from Ukraine.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The older girl, 15, was charged with coercion and contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.
    — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But a romance this is not, as Eliza’s growing sentience leads to realizations about abuse and coercion.
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • As his longtime friend C. S. Lewis warned, human efforts to transgress nature end up amounting to the coercion of other men.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Uprisings in the recent past that captured global attention were crushed by a state well-versed in the instruments of coercion.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The coercion can take place on gaming and video-streaming platforms, or instant messaging apps.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In the past, the company also refused to enforce vaccine mandates, calling it an act of policing and coercion.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 19 July 2023
  • In a world of coercion and violence, the curators argue, Dave should be seen as a resistance fighter.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
  • And that anyone who claims otherwise is only in need of coercion or bullying to succumb.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Gul sees this kind of coercion and the double standards around women’s sexuality as a struggle faced by women around the world.
    — Seemab Gul, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
  • Justin Washington, a 25-year-old Bronx man, was accused of first-degree rape in February and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of coercion in the second degree on Aug. 18, court records show.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In a statement, the union blamed Apple's campaign for creating an environment of fear and coercion.
    — New York Times, 29 May 2022
  • The story of the young Ratzinger’s coercion into Nazi institutions is hardly unusual for Germans of his age.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023

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