coerce
Example Sentences
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Industry groups recommend that surrogates not receive public benefits to reduce the perception that they are financially needy and could be coerced into the transaction.
Civilians are "being coerced from all sides", Mr Türk said in a statement on Tuesday, noting that armed rebel groups have issued their own threats asking people to boycott the polls.
From BBC
"None of our consultants coerced the clients," he adds.
From BBC
Or as Comer put it more directly in a statement: “Chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda.”
Whitehead concluded that the subpoena — compounded by Bondi’s news release — was aimed “not to investigate legal violations but to intimidate and coerce providers into abandoning lawful medical care.”
From Los Angeles Times
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