The House, subservient though it was, was not to be coerced into supporting a motion which, if carried, would almost certainly be converted into a basis of attack on persons who were favourable to the Administration.
But he had not only sat in judgment in his own cause: he had refused to record the finding of the jury, whom he had misled and coerced into bringing in a verdict contrary to what they really intended.
It is probable that up to this point no decree expressing wholesale condemnation of the bill had been passed, and the senate might therefore be coercedthrough the magistrate, without its authority being utterly disregarded.
Not only human beings but also spirits can be coerced by the use of their names; hence the names of the dead are forbidden, lest the mention of them act as an evocation, unintentional though it be.
Thereupon she arranged with her confederates for a general slaughter of the Huguenots, and almost coerced the half-frantic and irresolute king to acquiesce in the plan.
Not content with forcing money out of the Jews, one of whom he was said to have coerced by pulling out a tooth every day, he treated rich land-owners with hardly less cruelty.
It was the same clerk he had coerced with real cigars to enlighten him concerning Arlee Beecher, and he felt that that clerk was thinking things about him now, mistaken and misguided things, about his predilections for the ladies.
It seems almost impossible that Pascal should have thought that the German bishops would accept this solution: he may have hoped that they could be coerced into it.
He coerced them all to order with verbal whips, like the keeper of some menagerie.
He had coerced many viceroys, and thoroughly understood the business.
Will the gentleman contend that juries are to be coerced to find verdicts at the point of the bayonet?
The immense sums of public money since accumulated would have enabled the bank, if she had retained the possession of it, to have coerced a recharter.
We have seen that the President has gone to the first and highest link in the chain, and coerced a conformity to his will.
Was it not known that Mr. Kennedy himself had been as it were coerced into quiescence by the singular fact that he had been saved from garotters in the street by the opportune interference of Phineas Finn?
She who had never been coerced was now to be coerced in every action, surrounded everywhere by symbols of coercion.
The idea of O'Bannon being coerced or rewarded into letting Lydia off gave her exquisite pain.
Bobby Dorset, who had said immediately just what Lydia had longed to hear Albee say--that parties like that were more trouble than they were worth--had been coerced by Lydia into going.
The order of the Temple was at this period all-powerful in Palestine, and the Grand Master, Gerard de Riderfort, coerced with the heavy hand of authority the nobles of the kingdom, and even the king himself.
The English courts may even change the contract if the sailors have been coerced by their masters.
The unwilling are first persuaded, then coerced by threats, by petty persecutions, by the most cruel of all peaceful weapons, social ostracism, and finally by personal violence.
To talk of the degradation of labor, whether coerced or free, is, therefore, preposterous.
The meanest slave that wears the shackle or feels the whip of civilization, in the reluctant performance of coerced labor, is a far nobler being than the African barbarian in his native wilds.
They saw that their opponents had formerly menaced and coerced in vain, and they determined to proscribe.
Sentimentality which grows maudlin on behalf of the willful prostitute is a curse; to confound her with the entrapped or coerced girl, the real white slave, is both foolish and wicked.
The moral restraints are loosened in the case of a man like Heike by the insulation of himself from the sordid details of crime, through industrially coerced intervening agents.
I shall not be coerced into signing a check and handing it to Mrs. White.
It would be so nice for a boy as good as Bob to be coerced into some wild prank by the wily Tavia.
The American politicians dared not disfranchise the negroes; so they coerced everybody in theory and only the negroes in practice.
But in truth he cannot be so completely coerced into good; and in so far as he is incompletely coerced, he is quite as likely to be coerced into evil.
He did it entirely out of respect for Mr. Mayrant's family, who coerced him into this tardy reparation, and who feel unable to recognize him since his treasonable attitude in the Custom House.
Coerced and magnetized, the girl moved back and sank down again on the lounge.
There is no proof that hecoerced them into Christianity.
To think is natural, and if not intimidated or coerced the man will evolve a philosophy of life that is useful and beneficent.
He coerced my poor mother into acquiescense, and she became his wretched tool instead of an honoured wife and helpmate.
Whether it was his shrewdness in placing obstacles in their way or whether he coercedthe denizens into blocking the sheriff's investigation does not matter.
He probably thinks I could be coerced into marrying him.
He knew how one of Anne's sisters, possibly more than one of them, had been coerced into marriage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coerced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
