Recent Examples on the WebAnd that anyone who claims otherwise is only in need of coercion or bullying to succumb. Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022 All of this means that the new group of Ethereum validators could prove more vulnerable to government coercion than the old Ethereum miners were. Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022 The governments knew full well that without the protection of the U.S. they would be exposed to Soviet coercion.CBS News, 29 June 2022 But for the farmers in Madou township, the impact of China’s economic coercion has already been felt. Gladys Tsai, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 China also has turned to forms of economic coercion such as import bans in disagreements with Australia, Canada and others. Charles Hutzler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 As Taiwan stands firm, and Beijing grows more desperate, the level of Chinese coercion could increase—at some point perhaps convincing the Communist leadership that only war can capture Taiwan. Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 Yet China’s opposition to sanctions does not seem to stop it from deploying economic coercion against businesses and countries that anger it. Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022 The American president can no longer pretend that economic coercion alone will do the trick. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English cohercion, borrowed from Anglo-French cohercioun, borrowed from Late Latin coerctiōn-, coerctiō, by-form of Latin coercitiōn-, coercitiō, from coerci-, variant stem of coercēre "to coerce" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action