pressureUS

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing somebody to act
arm-twisting
bludgeon
bounce someone into something
browbeat someone into something/doing something
bull something through
coercion
dragoon someone into something
drive someone/something to something
duress
force someone's handidiom
forced marriage
push (someone) toward(s) something
push something through
put the heat on someoneidiom
put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom
rallying cry
ransom
slap
squeeze
wring

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Urging & persuading

coerce | American Dictionary

coerce
verb[ T ]
us/koʊˈɜrs/
to persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do:
I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving.

coercion

noun[ U ]us/koʊˈɜr·ʃən/
They used threats and coercion to keep the others in line.

coercive

adjectiveus/koʊˈɜr·sɪv/
coercive threats/governments

Examples of coerce

coerce
It is a rather elegant tool one can use to engage in social activities and share ideas or perhaps coerce others to share their toys.
Nevertheless, he believed that in order to make such an inference ' respectable ', he had to coerce it into the straightjacket of the syllogistic formula.
The point to be emphasized here is that such insight and understanding cannot be coerced or instilled by forcibly imposed punishment.
For others, such voluntary or coerced use of equity will not be such an issue.
The same strong coercion can be used to make this possible, with a module that contains two types, one coerced to each.
The legitimization is a kind of coercion, but some stretches in this speech are strategically designed predominantly to coerce.
Conversions after this date would be declared void in order to minimize the incentives the bands would have in coercing the population during the census.
Of course, proponents of the limited right to do wrong might argue that this sort of (derived) positive obligation can be coerced.
There was little a planter could do to coerce the contractor to minimize the risk of shirking.
A different view is that one is only "coerced" when, in addition, the pressure involves the actual or threatened violation of one's rights.
Clearly, one cannot successfully coerce any individual into becoming an active, effective, nurturant parent.
While some extrinsic activities are clearly coerced, others are done choicefully and are grounded in self-accepted values and beliefs.
The example shows how the semantics of the middle construction can 'coerce' a particular reading of the verb.
Therefore, the typing may be proved without using rule (coerce).
Is there an imperative where society at large is coerced by technology?
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