Words similar to coercive
Example sentences for: coercive
How can you use “coercive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Klein will have a hard time persuading the public that Microsoft is coercive, because the company exerts its market-share leverage subtly: It distributes IE free, negotiates with computer manufacturers to make IE the default browser on their machines, and links Windows to software and services it wants to promote.
But there is a catch: The democratic process, the only decent way we know for deciding how that coercive power should be used, is itself subject to extremely severe free-rider problems.
The crux of the strategic controversy is whether an imperfect homeland defense could eliminate the deterrent and coercive impact of small rogue missile forces.
The likelihood is the opposite--that bad (misleading, coercive) information will be disseminated to entice people to sell their organs and ignore the very real risks that people incur when they give up their organs.
"The reason that denial of participation in a tax exemption or other subsidy scheme does not necessarily 'infringe' a fundamental right is that--unlike direct restriction or prohibition--such a denial does not, as a general rule, have any significant coercive effect ." Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. v.