(v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(2) Xi Jinping ’s tough talk in Hong Kong reflects growing self-confidence in China’s ability to shape world events and browbeat or ignore less powerful countries such as Britain.
(3) Or let it browbeat us out of doing anything at all.
(4) In the runup to the constitutional referendum in January 2014, talkshow hosts browbeat viewers to support the document and accused dissenters of treason.
(5) The president used his favorite bullhorn, Twitter, on Sunday to begin the lengthy process of browbeating wavering Republican senators into line.
(6) As Morgan tried to interject with questions, Jones continued with his browbeating delivery, declaring that Morgan would not deter him with "little factoids".
(7) So they are trying to browbeat the British public into abandoning Ukip and sticking with open-door immigration by using the most disgraceful slurs.
(8) His irrepressible rants against the establishment often blur into the general climate of political disgust, while his periodic browbeating of Five Star MPs reminds voters of Berlusconi.
(9) Insisting that the initiative, which will launch this summer, would not be an attempt to “browbeat” anyone, and that she still respected those who support the union, Sturgeon said: “I also know that many wanted to be persuaded in 2014, but ultimately didn’t find our arguments compelling enough.
(10) Nigeria press conferences usually involve a pack of journalists berating the poor man at the front in the tracksuit; the browbeating carried on, but under Keshi the roles were reversed.
(11) Barack Obama warned Putin he was isolated internationally; David Cameron said he did not trust the Russian leader; Stephen Harper, Canada’s then prime minister, told Putin bluntly: “Get out of Ukraine .” Vladimir Putin leaves G20 after leaders line up to browbeat him over Ukraine Read more Reacting angrily to the imposition of sanctions, Putin said western leaders had switched off their brains and were making matters worse by punishing Moscow.
(12) Mr Gingrich visited Langley three times before the war, and according to accounts, the political veteran sought to browbeat analysts into toughening up their assessments of Saddam's menace.
Coerce
Definition:
(v. t.) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
(v. t.) To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate.
(v. t.) To compel or enforce; as, to coerce obedience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Negative feelings were expressed significantly more often by those who felt coerced into hospital and those admitted compulsorily.
(2) "I am deeply concerned that a private security firm is not only providing policing on the cheap but failing to show a duty of care to its staff and threatening to withdraw an opportunity to work at the Olympics as a means to coerce them to work unpaid."
(3) And as Kelly observed, Walker’s position is massively unpopular, and for good reason: the idea that a woman should be coerced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term even at the risk of her life is the purest barbarism.
(4) In other cases the unauthorised sharing of intimate material, or the threat to do so, is intended to harass the subject or coerce them to engage in conduct against their will.
(5) Mohammadi Ashtiani has appeared on state TV three times, but activists say her apparent confessions had been coerced.
(6) Among the interactions we observed coerced imagination, difficulties in identification, personal relationships based on abandonment with persecutory projection of the female figure and a tendency toward immature defences such as avoidance, denial and acting out.
(7) The guidelines say that prosecutions should not be brought under obscenity laws but on the basis of the menace and humiliation intended, and in the most serious cases, where intimate images are used to coerce victims into further sexual activity, under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
(8) The department relied on this coerced statement almost exclusively.” Patrick Weil, a visiting professor at Yale law school, says the State Department is acting outside its authority.
(9) These creatures are essentially coerced into performing entertaining tricks for the benefit of a public audience, but one whale has been linked to the deaths of three people.
(10) Negative consequences are more likely among those in India, those coerced into having a sterilization, those who did not understand the consequences of the procedure, those with health complications after sterilization, and those couples who have unstable marriages or who disagree about sterilization.
(11) It includes very ambivalent women, those coerced into abortion, and those at the legal time limit.
(12) Employees highly coerced into entering industrial alcoholism programs because of affected job performance reported a higher proportion of work improvement than those in treatment for other reasons.
(13) September 16 2010 Sakineh again appears on state TV, denying that she has been tortured or coerced in any way.
(14) He was set to be extradited to Sweden, where he faces accusations of raping a woman and sexually molesting and coercing another in Stockholm while on a visit to give a lecture in August 2010.
(15) This paper provides an insight into the mechanism of a coerced-internalized type of false confession.
(16) In Nepal over the last decade hundreds of children were coerced from their families with promises of a better education and then sold without their parents' knowledge to American couples.
(17) EH: I'm not in favour of legislation that opens the floodgates for unjustified cases of people who are either vulnerable or coerced, or for a change in the attitude that leads to that happening.
(18) Persons who have received incomplete information, are incompetent, have been coerced, or are psychodynamically overcome cannot give valid consent or refusal.
(19) Dorries tells me that she has spoken to about 200 women who have had abortions (as a side note, she says that every single one "felt that she was coerced by somebody into her abortion, whether it was a partner, a parent, a teacher", which is unlike the experience of anyone I've ever known), and so I am surprised by her reply when I ask how many women she has spoken to who have had late-term abortions.
(20) Detective Chief Inspector Gary Booth, who led the investigation, told a news conference that Wilson had manipulated and coerced his victims.