coerce
Example Sentences
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"None of our consultants coerced the clients," he adds.
From BBC
Or as Comer put it more directly in a statement: “Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda.”
Whitehead concluded that the subpoena — compounded by Bondi’s news release — was aimed “not to investigate legal violations but to intimidate and coerce providers into abandoning lawful medical care.”
From Los Angeles Times
“He had no reason to think that any woman was coerced into a forced marriage.”
On Friday, they spent the entire four hours allocated for the day discussing a group of 21 amendments on safeguards designed to prevent people being coerced or encouraged into an assisted death.
From BBC
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