coerce

Example Sentences

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“He had no reason to think that any woman was coerced into a forced marriage.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

In each case, the court relied on coerced confessions without lawyers present, according to rights groups.

From New York Times

At least 800 Ukrainian officials were co-opted into working for the FSB, some willingly, some coerced.

From BBC

Under the ACI, the EU would determine whether a third country's economic measure was designed to coerce the EU or one of its members to change policy.

From Reuters