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Coercive

Main Entry:	co·er·cive [koh-ur-siv] /koʊˈɜrsɪv/ Show Spelled
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Example Sentences

Dershowitz has weighed in on the subject of coercive interrogation before.

Depressive symptoms in criminal offenders in early coercive substance abuse treatment.

It is a coercive enterprise of questionable legitimacy.

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Dershowitz has weighed in on the subject of coercive interrogation before.

Depressive symptoms in criminal offenders in early coercive substance abuse treatment.

It is a coercive enterprise of questionable legitimacy.

But there are also more coercive measures reportedly under consideration.

Using the coercive power of the state will not help the medically needy find efficient and effective care.

The drawback of such plans is that they often seem coercive.

It is alleged that they were hounded to their deaths by lenders' coercive recovery practices.

The suit also appears to be claiming that the legislation imposes coercive conditions on the states' receipt of federal funds.

To violate consent in that way is coercive and unethical.

Democracy was restored and coercive population policies were abandoned.

Epstein imagine that the government has a monopoly on coercive power.

Setting standards for that field is neither imperialistic nor coercive.

The evolution of languages around the globe today is spontaneous, cutting against the state's coercive power.

Parents must understand that coercive teaching cannot make learning happen.

Such coercive labelling is a first step towards discrimination or worse.

Examples of applied mathematics are critical, but to gear education toward any outcome is coercive and damaging.

Through numerous country studies, the author concludes that all durable regimes had essential coercive characteristics in common.

Public monies are acquired through the coercive mechanism of taxation of private citizens, and thus, are really private funds.

Two hearings foreshadowed a fight over the definition of coercive interrogation tactics for terror suspects.

On the other hand, strategies of coercive diplomacy and economic isolation are failing.

No other corrective or coercive techniques can be used while a detainee is in cramped confinement.

Military conscription is a coercive act of government.

New recruits, then, learn compliance through the exercise of coercive power and constant surveillance.

Grice are upset at the coercive nature of this transfer.

Cuba, and to ban coercive interrogation methods as changes in course that could make the country more vulnerable.

Not so, for they have one other selling-point that survives the evisceration of their coercive powers:.

To lessen the impact of the coercive measures used against the.

But adherence to the rule of law, with its restrictions on coercive power, makes it more difficult to curb extremist elements.

These recordings appear to have been made under less coercive conditions.

In fact, he went out of his way to emphasize that he had nothing coercive in mind.

The footnote meant, the officials said, that coercive techniques were still lawful.

Critics of the new report argue that there can be no such thing as informed consent in the coercive environment of a prison.

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