coercively

Example Sentences

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To coercively surveil a people is not just an unconstitutional attack on their privacy, but an assault on their human dignity.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024

Some of the rules could be used coercively, Christophe Deloire, the Reporters Without Borders secretary general, said in the statement.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2021

It is all assisted by the coercively sinister score by Mica Levi.

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2019

It seems uncontested that international law prohibits one country from coercively intervening in the domestic affairs of another country.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2018

The difference between the two measures, regarded coercively, was that embargo inflicted upon his own people all the loss that war could, yet spared the opponent that which war might do to him.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)