Coercive

Shanghaiing is a practice from the mid-19th Northwest United States that consisted of conscripting men as sailors by coercive techniques.

The police used coercive techniques when questioning suspects.

Perspecticide is often part of a strategy of coercive control that may include manipulation, stalking, and physical abuse. Abusers make their partners narrow their worlds.

Congress and committees of Congress of course impeded the executive when there was no coercive public sentiment to check and rule them.

Capitalism is coercive.

Consent can't exist in coercive situations.

The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.