0 to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do: --
The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
1 to persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do: --
Therefore, the typing may be proved without using rule (coerce).
The example shows how the semantics of the middle construction can 'coerce' a particular reading of the verb.
While some extrinsic activities are clearly coerced, others are done choicefully and are grounded in self-accepted values and beliefs.
Clearly, one cannot successfully coerce any individual into becoming an active, effective, nurturant parent.
A different view is that one is only "coerced" when, in addition, the pressure involves the actual or threatened violation of one's rights.
There was little a planter could do to coerce the contractor to minimize the risk of shirking.
Of course, proponents of the limited right to do wrong might argue that this sort of (derived) positive obligation can be coerced.
Conversions after this date would be declared void in order to minimize the incentives the bands would have in coercing the population during the census.