How to Use coercive in a Sentence

coercive

adjective

• Accusing the deal of being coercive and harmful to shareholders, the three investors filed a restraining order to stop the round.
  — Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• U-T: But Russia has used cyber warfare alongside other more coercive types of warfare.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
• Nor may Congress do this by putting strings on grants to state and local government, the Supreme Court has said, if such conditions are unduly coercive.
  — Erwin Chemerinsky, Orange County Register, 27 Apr. 2017
• The development of a truly safe and highly effective nonlethal crowd-control system could raise enormous ethical questions about the state's use of coercive force.
  — David Hambling, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2006
• Beijing’s actions are part of a coercive pattern of tactics designed to enforce its claims to sovereignty over most of the South and East China Seas.
  — Jim Talent and, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2017
• Even if the president could do so, those conditions would have to be clearly related to the funds at issue and not coercive, as the executive order appeared to be, Orrick said.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2017
• At the time, though, Moller said the move felt coercive.
  — Elyssa Cherney, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• And a lot of it has to do with being a coercive threat against the family.
  — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Right now the crown prince acts with the authority of the king and controls the coercive powers of state.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Mala won’t cede her knowledge of her husband or of life to the coercive tidiness of the trauma plot.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The result would be the worst of both worlds: No inspections and no coercive sanctions to get them back.
  — Michael J. Mazarr, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2017
• Sites that fail to comply with the new law will face fines and other coercive measures.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• The challenges of avoiding the coercive power of money was sort of too much to handle.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
• These requests weren’t coercive, the scholars told me, nor were they done in secret.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
• The court also weighed in on whether their invitation for the audience to join them in prayer was a coercive act.
  — Bill Mears, Fox News, 14 July 2017
• That’s because the subtext of those orders, such as those issued by the governors of Iowa and Texas, is coercive.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
• Beijing will try to punish any country that sails with the U.S., but that will underscore the coercive nature of its plans.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 June 2018
• Some Uber drivers filed a lawsuit saying the in-app ads were coercive, but a judge was dubious about their claims.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• But the documents confirm the coercive nature of the crackdown.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• But the administration’s stance has not changed, and the coercive tactics have spread.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• The goal of coercive control is to strip a victim of autonomy.
  — Kellie Lynch, Chron, 23 May 2022
• Then, be aware of coercive and deceptive posts meant to warp your perspective.
  — Molly McKew, Cosmopolitan, 19 Mar. 2018
• In 2018, Boris Barrera, a member of the Chilean congress, launched an inquiry into the coercive adoptions.
  — Jake Lefferman, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The recitation is recommended and not, as of yet, coercive.
  — WSJ, 17 June 2022
• This technique—coercive charm, seduction through sleight of hand—is one of his hallmarks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Defense attorneys have said there is no real choice and have denounced the process as coercive.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 10 July 2018
• The judge thought the whole arrangement seemed coercive; the student still had First Amendment protections.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2021
• Exiles like al-Hail dismiss any sign of public support of the government as the coercive fear of the secret police.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• China’s health tracking system is state-led and far more coercive.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• Policymakers can also use coercive tools that are more deniable or otherwise less visible to the public.
  — Erik Lin-Greenberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024