James Allen

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

British Author

Kent Nerburn

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

American Author

Lysander Spooner

One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

American Philosopher

John Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Hungarian Scientist

Nelson Mandela

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

South African Statesman

Jeff Duncan

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

American Politician

Joshua Roman

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

American Musician

Jung Kyung-ho

Running on my will and running because of coercing is different.

Camille Paglia

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Seamus Heaney

Irish Poet

Coerce usually implies something negative and against someone's will.

Negative Connotation

Using 'coerce' suggests the victim felt stressed or threatened.

Emotional Impact

'Coerce' in business often relates to unfair practices or power misuse.

Business Ethics

In business, 'coerce' might mean forcing agreement to unfavorable terms.

Contractual Force

In law, 'coerce' can invalidate agreements or confessions if proven.

Legal Implications

In legal contexts, coercion often involves abuse of power by authorities.

Authority Misuse

 important learning phase for them to watch how the adults move and and learn to hunt these animals so this one for a while and then they took a nap they slept for about seven hours on and off I did my best to get some rest as well and then they're on again and what they are are coercing predators is what wolves

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 is because he doesn't agree with my definition of justice. Fair enough. Maybe he and I don't see eye to eye, politically. But here's the our aim is to encourage students to articulate their own opinions, not to coerce them into agreeing with us, so it actually doesn't matter if he and I agree.

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 you're like most folks you'd probably hesitate and rightly so there's something wrong and well deeply wrong about trying to get other people to go think your way just by manipulating them or coercing we want to convince our political opponents we won't but we want

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 The only people who knew it were police and prosecutors. We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics

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 I get it, I understand why people are confused. So, to be clear, the people that I'm talking about do not choose this life. They're forced, defrauded or coerced. That's actually the legal definition for human trafficking under federal law, for adults.

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 unless they're prepared for their experiments not to work for the next two years. I eventually did figure it out. So, my experiments were exploring how miswiring in the striatum relates to compulsive behaviors. Meaning, behaviors that are coerced

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 Soon we had outgrown the scrap yards, what they could provide, so we coerced a wire manufacturer to help us, and not only to supply the materials on bobbins, but to produce to our color specifications. At the same time, I was thinking, well,

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 put an end to the coerced Egyptian labor, but he still pressed forward with construction. Foreign workers from all over Europe and the Middle East labored alongside dredgers and bucket excavators to remove 74 million cubic meters of dirt.

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 In "Brave New World," he imagines a society where technologies that we created originally for freedom end up coercing us. However, in the book, he also offers us a way out of that society, similar to the path

What will a future...

 require that sex education be taught in schools, including how to prevent coerced sex. And less than half of those states require that the information presented be medically accurate.

Coerce

To make someone do something by using force or threats.

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To obtain something by using threats or force.

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To pressure a person to behave in a certain way by use of threats, intimidation, or force.

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