Coercing
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For example, “land-sharking” – the practice of
coercing
landowners to sell their land and then flipping it for huge profits – is no longer as lucrative as it once was, because land prices have been flat for years.
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In "Brave New World," he imagines a society where technologies that we created originally for freedom end up
coercing
us.
Though most are vulgar there are moments when the vigilantes seem to be
coercing
men in order to find them guilty and deserving of death.
They're extremely inept low-level Irish-American gangsters in Hell's Kitchen, and the reach of their benefit from crime is that raised leases are
coercing
them out of their neighborhood.
It is also asserting control over the region’s natural resources, by bullying and
coercing
other claimants seeking to explore for oil and gas in territories that they themselves control, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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