pressureUS

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing somebody to act
arm-twisting
bludgeon
bounce
bounce someone into something
browbeat someone into something/doing something
bull something through
drive someone/something to something
duress
force someone's handidiom
forced marriage
forcible
put the heat on someoneidiom
put/tighten the screws on someoneidiom
railroad
rallying cry
ram something down someone's throatidiom
ram something into someone
ransom
slap
squeeze

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Urging & persuading

Examples of coerced

coerced

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
Given the complexity of political contention, the same set of coercive actions may relate to different coerced parties differently.
First, they were a heritage of the coerced labour systems of the sugar plantations which produced a historical norm of low wages.
The noncoercion condition would fail in this case, for the coercion would be used to enforce coerced commitments.
Of course, proponents of the limited right to do wrong might argue that this sort of (derived) positive obligation can be coerced.
A different view is that one is only "coerced" when, in addition, the pressure involves the actual or threatened violation of one's rights.
While some extrinsic activities are clearly coerced, others are done choicefully and are grounded in self-accepted values and beliefs.
Is there an imperative where society at large is coerced by technology?
The primary purpose of this meeting is to ensure that the donor is not coerced or influenced by monetary considerations.
Like protective actions, there is no negotiation between the person who coerces and the coerced.
There would continue to be ethical questions about whether certain individuals accepting payment for their organs were coerced or otherwise exploited.
In fact, he argued, people often perform intentional actions precisely because they feel pressured or coerced to do so.
Some case records assert that local "crooks" banded together with litigation masters in the provincial capital and coerced the litigants into appeal.
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