Sentences with 'coerce'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coerce and other words derived from it.
• « On 4 August 1789 the National Assembly voted to end feudal privileges (the rights of landowners to coerce the peasantry to work and pay various kinds of fees), on 14 August it abolished the sale of offices, and on 26 August it issued a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, modelled in part on the US Bill of Rights. »
• « In principle, the problem of tolerance only arises when there are certain convictions that make something intolerant to those convictions, but tolerance and intolerance are only effectively practised when power is exercised over those who disagree with us and is exercised to coerce the contrary. »