The ultimate power of the president is the power to persuade, not to coerce.
The tests are intended to coerce firms into encouraging lower-paid employees to save more.
We do not coerce or judge, but we do objectively expose the consequences of choices.
In other words, I viewed her confession as an attempt to coerce me into paying her more.
But to unleash an avalanche of charges to coerce a plea to a lesser-included offense is highly questionable.
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It is a way to dance with problems and coerce advantages out of annoyances as well as seemingly disastrous set-backs.
They also want to coerce people to give up their individual mobility for trains, even if this means longer commutes and less convenience.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
Even so, Dr Williams was accused of a failure to lead, that is a failure to command, cajole and coerce Anglicans.
Five years ago, Apple somehow managed to coerce a world full of Wintel users to give its smartphone platform a chance.
McHugh, who claimed he had a PhD, posed as a lawyer and accountant to coerce businesses into taking up loans with Gresham.
Aminuddin Chaudhry also denied in court that the police or military had tried to coerce him into testifying against his former colleagues.
He lusted after the headlines, and hoped strong-arm tactics would coerce settlements.
Jiau was able to coerce this information from Ng and pass it on to aggressive edge fund managers who traded on the information.
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It concluded that Savile was an "opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce and control" his victims.
Is that prospect now being used to coerce testimony or settlements from midlevel executives who, while believing themselves innocent, don't dare risk a trial?
All of these business leaders wanted elevated behavior from their employees, the type of contribution that we cannot motivate or coerce from our people.
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Obama is clearly betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still more concessions of land and principles.
The Ecuadorean government will use expropriation and extended operating contracts as the stick and carrot to try to coerce foreign firms into signing service contracts.
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"In an increasingly digital world, there is no way to coerce someone into paying for something if they want to take it for free, " says Doctorow.
The government may not use threats of loss to all Medicare Medicaid funds as a means to coerce states to adopt incremental changes under the law.
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These banks are able to privatize any profits from their risky ventures, yet through rent-seeking they have managed to coerce the public to pay for their failures.
Using financial penalties to coerce action is either the equivalent of a mandate or it is not, but the decision seems to take two opposite stances on this question.
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The White House knows it has no legal authority to demand such a corporate ATM card, but it is counting on public anger to coerce BP to go along.
First, the United States should not be party to European (especially French and German) efforts to coerce Japan to abandon its own, principled and conditioned position on providing aid to Russia.
The industry of adventure gear is built on its ability to coerce you into buying something that, at best, is incrementally better than whatever might be in your closet at that moment.
The U.S. says it's going to wait until a formal United Nations deadline expires at the end of this month before seeking any new measures to coerce or punish Iran over its disputed program.
Although Biden is just the latest senior US official to visit Israel to try to coerce the government not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, his visit is novel in one respect.
Rather than coerce them, he reasons with them.
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The company is currently involved in a legal battle with cable TV provider Virgin Media, which claims Sky is trying to "coerce" Virgin customers into switching services by denying them access to its basic channels.
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