The tests are intended to coerce firms into encouraging lower-paid employees to save more.
In other words, I viewed her confession as an attempt to coerce me into paying her more.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
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.
"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 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.
To be brief, the picture concerns the exploits of three body builders ( Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie) who conspire to abduct a local businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and coerce him into signing over his assets.
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The Argentinean daily Clarin reported Saturday that Claudio Lifschitz, a former investigator of the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, claimed he was kidnapped and tortured by elements trying to coerce him into disclosing documents related to the case.
In a very real sense, the Bush administration's willingness to be taken in by Erdogan paved the way for its decision in 2005 to pressure Israel to allow Hamas to participate in the Palestinian elections and to coerce Egypt into allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in its parliamentary poll.
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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Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech.
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.
Will the Sandinistas try to coerce the victorious President-elect Chamorro into accepting what would amount to a coalition government, with Sandinista officials in key positions such as those controlling (and staffing) the military, the secret police, the banks, educational institutions, and the media, communications and transportation sectors of the economy?
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