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Example sentences for: coercive

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Kinsley seeks to remedy, through the coercive power of government, those circumstances and conditions in society that he finds troubling.
The industry promises to immediately launch a public relations offensive against a "coercive, Big Brother-type Congress."
For inducement to be proved, officers must have used coercive or persuasive tactics.
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.
We have stated that, even in the provision of subsidies, the Government may not "ai[m] at the suppression of dangerous ideas," Regan, supra , 461 U.S., at 550 (internal quotation marks omitted), and if a subsidy were "manipulated" to have a "coercive effect," then relief could be appropriate.