Coercing definition

Coercing or "coerce" means to force or pressure to act.
Coercing means constraining, compelling or restraining by—
Coercing means inducing a person to act or to refrain from acting, if the inducement is accomplished by any one or more of the following means:

Examples of Coercing in a sentence

  • Coercing a student to consume a drug or alcoholic beverage in an amount that would lead a reasonable person to believe the student is intoxicated.

  • Coercing someone into sexual activity violates this policy in the same way as physically forcing someone into sex.

  • Coercing the complainant to engage in sexual activity for money or anything of value.

  • Coercing an individual into engaging in sexual activity violates this policy in the same way as physically forcing someone into engaging in sexual activity.

  • Coercing another, including the victim, to do any act that creates risk of mental or physical harm.

  • Coercing, intimidating, or threatening borrowers in any way with the intent of forcing them to complete a loan transaction.

  • Coercing or compelling any person to enter into an agree- ment not to unite with or become a member of any labor organiza- tion as a condition of his or her securing employment or continu- ing therein.

  • Coercing, forcing, or attempting to coerce or force a person to touch another person’s intimate parts without that person’s consent.

  • Coercing the medical staff to render medical assistance to persons not entitled for the same or any other disorderly behaviour in the Health Centre.

  • Coercing or encouraging another to consume alcoholic beverages against their will is prohibited.

Related to Coercing

  • Coercion means—(1) Threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; (2) Any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause a person to believe that failure to perform an act would result in serious harm to or physical restraint against any person; or (3) The abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.

  • Coerce means to compel or attempt to compel a person to act in a given manner or to refrain from acting in a given manner by pressure, intimidation, or threat of harm, damage, breach of contract, or other adverse consequences, including, but not limited to, the loss of any benefit available to other new motor vehicle dealers of the same line make in this state. The term does not include any of the following actions by a manufacturer:

  • Intimidate means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property.

  • Intimidation means an unjustified threat or other action that is intended to cause fear or apprehension in a student.

  • coercive practice means harming or threatening to harm, directly or indirectly, persons or their property to influence their participation in the procurement process or affect the execution of a contract;

  • Harasses means a pattern or course of conduct directed toward another individual that includes, but is not limited to, repeated or continuing unconsented contact, that would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress, and that actually causes emotional distress to the victim. Harassment shall include harassing or obscene phone calls as prohibited by Section 1172 of this title and conduct prohibited by Section 850 of this title. Harassment does not include constitutionally protected activity or conduct that serves a legitimate purpose;

  • Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.

  • Intimidating, threatening, abusive, or harming conduct means, but is not limited to, conduct that does the following:

  • coercive practices means harming or threatening to harm, directly or indirectly, persons, or their property to influence their participation in a procurement process, or affect the execution of a contract;

  • Discom(s) means one or more of the following distribution companies:

  • Improper influence means any influence that induces or tends to induce a PHA/IHA employee or officer to give consideration or to act regarding a PHA/IHA contract on any basis other than the merits of the matter.

  • Influencing or attempting to influence means making, with the intent to influence, any communication to or appearance before an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with any covered Federal action.

  • Undue influence means exploiting a position of power in relation to the consumer so as to apply pressure, even without using or threatening to use physical force, in a way which significantly limits the consumer's ability to make an informed decision;

  • Retaliation means any form of intimidation, reprisal or harassment directed against a student who reports bullying, provides information during an investigation, or witnesses or has reliable information about bullying.

  • Retaliate means an act or communication intended:

  • Harass means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person which causes substantial emotional distress to that person and serves no legitimate purpose.

  • Arrest the Ship is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any possessory lien or other claim or otherwise taken from the possession of the Borrower and the Borrower shall fail to procure the release of the Ship within a period of fourteen (14) days thereafter; or

  • Harassment, intimidation, or bullying means any gesture, any written, verbal or physical act, or any electronic communication, as defined in N.J.S.A. 18A:37-14, whether it be a single incident or a series of incidents that:

  • Counterfeit Work means Work that is or contains items misrepresented as having been designed and/or produced under an approved system or other acceptable method. The term also includes approved Work that has reached a design life limit or has been damaged beyond possible repair, but is altered and misrepresented as acceptable.

  • Hacking means unauthorised access to any computer or other equipment or component or system or item which processes, stores, transmits or retrieves data.

  • Violence means the unjustified infliction of physical force by a student with the intent to cause injury to another student or damage to the property of another student.

  • Influencing or attempting to influ- ence means making, with the intent to influence, any communication to or ap- pearance before an officer or employee or any agency, a Member of Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a Member of Congress in connection with any covered Federal action.

  • DISCOM means the “Distribution Licensee” who is authorized to operate and maintain a distribution system for selling electricity to the consumers in his area of supply at tariffs regulated by the State / Central Regulatory Authority, whichever is applicable.

  • Tampering means the unauthorized connecting, disconnecting, or causing to be connected or disconnected, or in any other manner interfering with the operation of the Company’s meters, pipes, conduits, other equipment or attachments, or as otherwise provided by this Tariff (see Sections 6.6, 6.13, and 6.15).

  • Retaliatory action means action which includes, but is not limited to, the refusal to continue an agreement, or a material reduction in the quality of service or quantity of products available to a wholesaler under an agreement, which refusal or reduction is not made in good faith.

  • Decisive Influence means a person having, as a result of an agreement or through the ownership of shares or interests in another person (directly or indirectly):