Example sentences for: coercive

How can you use “coercive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Capital controls are not necessarily the answer for every country that experiences a financial crisis; sometimes confidence can be restored without the need for coercive measures, and even when calming words fail, "burden sharing" by banks and other lenders will often be enough.

  • Most of all, the program should stress that a man's evolved sexual desires offer him no excuse whatsoever for raping a woman, and that if he understands and resists those desires, he may be able to prevent their manifestation in sexually coercive behavior.

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • The industry promises to immediately launch a public relations offensive against a "coercive, Big Brother-type Congress."


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