(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.
Constrain
Definition:
(v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
(v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
(v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
(v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
(v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(2) The parameters of the multiplet signal are consistent with the presence of a sterically constrained tyrosine phenoxyl radical.
(3) The variations in behavior and physiology across the year were considered in terms of factors constraining the timing of the natural reproductive pattern.
(4) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
(5) The prepro form of ET-1 was inactive, suggesting that mature ET peptides are constrained in an inactive conformation within the preproET species.
(6) A method is presented for testing the equality of some or all (constrained or unconstrained) optima in a response surface analysis.
(7) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(8) Often, a single, constrained peptide analogue can be designed, which will have many of the desired biological and biophysical properties, and will serve as a template.
(9) Because the rigor of the present day "scientific method" demands clearcut and reproducible results and investigations require predictable performance of the parasite in an evenly maintained host that is in a highly constrained environment, we should not wonder why we cannot produce the events of nature.
(10) In the first stage, the constrained random ordering of the stimuli is generated as specified by the user.
(11) Intrauterine influences which retard fetal weight gain may irrecoverably constrain the growth of the airways.
(12) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(13) If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies.
(14) Her ability to estimate time intervals and general time perspective was constrained by her impoverished store of knowledge for personal experiences.
(15) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(16) In a previous study of push-off without plantar flexion it was shown that the transformation of knee angular velocity into translation of the body is constrained by the fact that velocity difference between hip and ankle has to reach its peak value a long time before the knee is extended.
(17) As there is no evidence for a close evolutionary link between kinesin and myosin, these and other similarities may represent convergence to set of common functional properties which are constrained by the requirements of protein structure and the use of ATP hydrolysis as a source of energy.
(18) By lengthening the ventricular effective refractory period, trains of conditioning stimuli could prevent or terminate tachycardias, but this possibility is constrained, at present, by the spatial limitations of the technique.
(19) The data suggest that the biological effects of RA may be constrained or augmented by differential regulation of its own receptor gene expression.
(20) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.