coercively

Example Sentences

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They arise when coercively monolithic social forms come under new pressures that weaken and subvert them.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

Some of the rules could be used coercively, Christophe Deloire, the Reporters Without Borders secretary general, said in the statement.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2019

It seems uncontested that international law prohibits one country from coercively intervening in the domestic affairs of another country.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2018

And thereupon they were ready to reflect the same things that dissenters had very reasonably objected upon the national churches, that have coercively pressed conformity to their respective creeds and worships. 

From A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers by Penn, William