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Coercing in sentence

7 examples of Coercing in a sentence

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.
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.
Similarly, coercing companies into matching every use of foreign exchange by producing foreign exchange destroys an essential feature of specialized production.
By increasing inflation, the Fed would turn real interest rates seriously negative, thereby coercing thrifty households into spending instead of saving.