Coercion in example sentence

Who Lost the South China Sea?SINGAPORE – US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has spoken out against China’s strategy of “intimidation and coercion” in the South China Sea, including the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, and electronic jammers, and, more recently, the landing of nuclear-capable bomber aircraft at Woody Island.

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Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.

And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.

We've seen a coercion strategy in which sexual structures are used in a forceful way to basically make a female have sex.

Now unfortunately, in the animal kingdom, it's the coercion strategy that we see time and time again.

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