(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.
Enforce
Definition:
(v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
(v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
(v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
(v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(v. i.) To attempt by force.
(v. i.) To prove; to evince.
(v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.
(n.) Force; strength; power.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(3) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(4) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(5) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
(6) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(7) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(8) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
(9) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
(10) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
(11) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(12) What is needed is decisive action, and a clear and unequivocal policy on maintaining and fully enforcing UN sanctions against the Eritrean regime.
(13) Its investigations have also resulted in 107 officials in the law enforcement agencies being convicted.
(14) Once again, there was no evidence of any law enforcement presence on or near the refuge.
(15) It has to come from a variety of different enforcement actions, and then the company needs to do the right thing,” she said.
(16) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(17) "Some have problems in enforcing their transfer pricing regimes due to gaps in the law, weak or no regulations and guidelines for companies, and limited technical capacity to carry out transfer pricing risk assessment and transfer pricing audits, and to negotiate transfer pricing adjustments with multinational companies."
(18) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
(19) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(20) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.