Compelling by threats

Usage examples of coercing.

Other administration officials would assure the press that we have not yet made a decision to invade and that the buildup of forces is intended to give the president a range of options, from coercing Saddam to comply with a new containment regime up to and including an invasion if that became necessary.

Buchanan, the last President of the old school, would as soon have thought of aiding in the establishment of a monarchy among us as of accepting the doctrine of coercing the States into submission to the will of a majority, in mass, of the people of the United States.

How this effort was received, how the Commissioners were kept waiting, and, while fair promises were held to the ear, how military preparations were pushed forward for the unconstitutional, criminal purpose of coercing States, let the shameful record of that transaction attest.

Both refused to furnish troops to the United States Government for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing the Southern States.

State, which forty years before had been admitted to the Union, against sectional resistance to the right guaranteed by the Constitution, and specifically denominated in the treaty for the acquisition of Louisiana, now, because her Governor refused to furnish troops for the unconstitutional purpose of coercing States, became the subject of special hostility and the object of extraordinary efforts for her subjugation.

A hard worker with a knack for persuading or coercing those who worked under him into being the same, he had been made overseer within a year.

There is Napoleon coercing five hundred thousand young men into wintry Moscow, and Augustus goading three hundred thirty thousand others up and down Europe.

It is interesting in the campo in these early days, before the effect of the government's measures for coercing the opinions of the populace is fully declared.