coerce 的定义
co·erced, co·erc·ing.
- to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, especially without regard for individual desire or volition: They coerced him into signing the document.
- to bring about through the use of force or other forms of compulsion; exact: to coerce obedience.
- to dominate or control, especially by exploiting fear, anxiety, etc.: The state is based on successfully coercing the individual.
coerce 近义词
compel, press
更多coerce例句
- Two have been charged with counts listed as federal crimes of terrorism, relating to destruction of government property to intimidate or coerce the government.
- Pregnant people have historically been considered a “vulnerable” population—a designation also applied to groups, such as children and the incarcerated, who may be coerced into participating in research.
- Once you find the ghost’s favorite room, you may need to coerce them to come out since some are camera shy.
- Any organization that feels coerced into paying a ransom should, at a minimum, analyze the potential risks of sanctions, especially if Bitcoin payments eventually find their way to a terrorist organization.
- She moved with her three kids to a new state and connected with a nonprofit that supports survivors of coerced debt and domestic violence.
- A fellow justice also accused McCaffery of attempting to coerce him into opposing Castille.
- Once again Russia brandishes the threat of a gas cutoff to squeeze Kiev and coerce Europe.
- Alito opened the door by questioning the “anomalous” Abood precedent, which lets states coerce union members into paying dues.
- In other instances, CIA recruiters used thinly veiled threats to coerce their cooperation.
- Religious liberty, Jefferson argued, denies the majority any right to coerce a dissenting minority, even one hostile to religion.
- This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, States, in their political capacity.
- It guides, it need not coerce or necessitate, though it may.
- To coerce them into a reluctant self-denial could be no possible object to him either of wish or hope.
- Hopeless to search further among empty swamps and forests, to grope at large in this hushed wilderness, to coerce a jungle.
- Hume, though we have found him censuring the conduct of Franklin, was opposed to any attempt to coerce America.