coercively

Example Sentences

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To coercively surveil a people is not just an unconstitutional attack on their privacy, but an assault on their human dignity.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

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

We cheerfully agree, with Kant, that a spiritual world cannot be proved coercively and in such knock-down fashion that belief cannot be avoided.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur