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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 coercing

coercing

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

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.
But an aspectual transition is required to combine it with an event, as it requires coercing this event into a state.
States and intergovernmental agencies held power over the displaced - coercing them into moving, incarcerating them and determining their resettlement or repatriation.
The role of text, whether written or spoken, is recognised as equal or dominant to that of drawing in coercing built architecture into existence.
If so, is that because its members share a cooperative identity that includes a norm against any one of them coercing or interfering with another?
All monotypes are polytypes and mono provides a way of coercing a monotype into a polytype.
Some proclaim their devotion to popular support but control mobilisation, even coercing civilian involvement.
We assume the existence of helper functions for looking up identifiers in an environment and for coercing values to constant expressions.
Thus, coercing the free-rider takes his freedom without any compensation in the same coin.
It is therefore important to distinguish how influencing parents' decisionmaking is not the same as coercing them into accepting screening.
But that is a situation where the intended result of coercing third parties is to punish the dissident.
If this happy state of affairs came about, would the law not have succeeded in coercing virtue?
Even with the most coercive incidence of policy transfer, those coercing are dependent on the domestic policy implementers for effective transfer.
Most of the criticisms of the free-rider are not appeals to public order as a justification for coercing him or her but, rather, moral criticisms of free-riding as a practice.
However, it exerts a formidable self-fulfilling power by inducing and coercing rural people to comply with the specific ways of thinking, acting, and relating described or, more precisely, prescribed therein.
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