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  • My strongest feeling right then was that the feelings that he seemed to think were simple enough were too complicated for me to name, which seemed like a form of lying, felt like a form of coercion.†   (source)
  • No coercion involved.†   (source)
  • The vulnerable Quinceys were being coerced.†   (source)
  • Growing rice is too complicated and intricate for a system that requires farmers to be coerced and bullied into going out into the fields each morning.†   (source)
  • She grabbed a pair of pliers and coerced the wires from one side of its cranium to the other.†   (source)
  • They may have been coerced.†   (source)
  • What if the strangers coerced him into doing this?†   (source)
  • Cajole or coerce a few of these poor devils into a medical exam.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to coerce Francis into talking about them, and knew she shouldn't say anything, that she should allow him to initiate any discussion of them, and if he didn't, soon, she should turn the page.†   (source)
  • Spokesmen for McDonald's admitted that polygraph tests had been administered, but denied that any coercion was involved.†   (source)
  • He remembered her coming in here, withholding the capsules, coercing permission to read the manuscript of Fast Cars.†   (source)
  • He coerced my brother and me to pump them day after day, eating loaves of bread for bulk and tons of eggs for protein.†   (source)
  • You cannot find that through guilt or condemnation or coercion, only through a relationship of love.†   (source)
  • I don't partake, I don't get off on emotional coercion, on forcing Nick to play some happy-hubby role—the shrugging, cheerful, dutiful taking out the trash, honey! role.†   (source)
  • Then—the bribes and coercion, the rallying of the Great Houses: they'd flock to my banner like peasants running for shelter.†   (source)
  • Too persuasive — it was duress, coercion.†   (source)
  • She might then resume with a gentle sigh—a signal that we were going to be forgiven— or just as easily explode out of her silence with: "But I will not be coerced!†   (source)
  • And soldiers, back in those days of military rule, had wielded a special coercive power over every peasant.†   (source)
  • What she had gone through was very different from the first rape in his office; it was no longer a matter of coercion and degradation.†   (source)
  • He had seen for himself how Iranian women were slaves to their husbands, how their religion as well as their government coerced them at every turn, the practice exemplified by their haughty insistence upon an antiquated and even unhealthy dress code.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be very little between his father and his mother, very little, that is, beyond habit and courtesy and coercion; and perhaps each had loved him, but this was never real to him, since they so clearly did not love each other.†   (source)
  • I would raise an army of einherjar, magic elves, and well-dressed dwarves and burn down Jotunheim before I let them coerce my friend.†   (source)
  • Sweetest coercion.†   (source)
  • She slips away, and I grit my teeth as Grandfather coerces me into a stilted discussion with the governor.†   (source)
  • His solution may not always be pretty—it may involve coercion or exorbitant penalties or the violation of civil liberties—but the original problem, rest assured, will be fixed.†   (source)
  • That legalize-and-regulate model simply hasn't worked very well in countries where prostitution is often coerced.†   (source)
  • He had to take coercion out of the equation and let the horse discover the pleasure of speed.†   (source)
  • It would have made him feel better about her dinner invitation, knowing that it hadn't been coerced somehow.†   (source)
  • I never spent the night with anyone who ever tried to coerce me into doing something illegal.†   (source)
  • He was not coerced.†   (source)
  • That was the year Esteban whipped him before his father because he brought the tenants the new ideas that were circulating among the unionists in town—ideas like Sundays off, a minimum wage, retirement and health plans, maternity leave for women, elections without coercion, and, most serious of all, a peasant organization that would confront the owners.†   (source)
  • Their alternative — there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice — was to starve.†   (source)
  • Claim: The party that took Monique did so because they, like Thomas, knew the vaccine could be turned into a deadly weapon and hoped to get what they needed through coercion.†   (source)
  • During a nasty row, they claimed she had convinced or even coerced their mother into making the will.†   (source)
  • A clerk at the front desk was paid or coerced to put her in this room rather than any other.†   (source)
  • Public force is the life and soul of every state: not merely army and police but prisons, judges, tax collectors, every conceivable trick of coercive repression.†   (source)
  • Did too, just before you ran away from my car and roughly ten minutes after you coerced me into cutting physics.†   (source)
  • And since there is no such thing as 'non-practical knowledge' or any sort of 'disinterested' action, since they scorn the use of their science for the purpose and profit of life, they deliver their science to the service of death, to the only practical purpose it can ever have for looters: to inventing weapons of coercion and destruction.†   (source)
  • I believe that within every soul lies the capacity to reach for its own good, that within every physical body there endures an unalienable right to be free from coercion.†   (source)
  • They weren't forcing her, or even goading her, or doing anything to coerce.†   (source)
  • A penalty can be only inflicted in two ways: by the courts or by military force—by COERCION of the judiciary or by COERCION of arms.†   (source)
  • At first a bottleneck was that our farm had just one phone for twenty-five people, many of them youngsters who would tie up a phone for hours unless coerced.†   (source)
  • We placed you in the situation and we will stand by you — even if it means bending the laws, coercing the courts.'†   (source)
  • In Natalie's case, there was no coercion, only persuasion.†   (source)
  • She grappled briefly with Bloomberg, trying to coerce him into a docile lap-cat's repose.†   (source)
  • And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.†   (source)
  • For was there not an element of coercion here?†   (source)
  • The midday rest was longer than usual; and once again the white children had to coerce the bush boy into making a start.†   (source)
  • And what is most remarkable is that it's been done without coercion, and entirely with the consent of the people.†   (source)
  • You were blackmailed by British Intelligence; they accused you of stealing money and then coerced you into preparing a revanchist trap against myself.†   (source)
  • Not a single one of them escaped the unholy combination of threats, bribes and coercive tactics by which their fellow Republicans attempted to intimidate their votes; and not a single one of them escaped the terrible torture of vicious criticism engendered by their vote to acquit.†   (source)
  • I had no idea what it meant to self-coerce.   (source)
    coerce = force someone to do something
  • I thought of positive liberty, and of what it might mean to self-coerce, until my head thrummed with a dull ache.   (source)
  • ..what distinguishes the government from the private sector is the power of coercion. In some ways the most insignificant government bureaucrat -- the parking attendant, the IRS examiner, the guy at the Department of Motor Vehicles, the immigration official -- has more power over me than the CEO of General Motors or General Electric.   (source)
  • The legislative bodies debated about what techniques could be used by the CIA to coerce a suspect into talking.
  • That at least has the dignity of coercion.†   (source)
  • Remember, they also put Myers on death row to coerce some of those statements.†   (source)
  • I assume you know a few ways to coerce her into doing what you want.†   (source)
  • The assault of memories, the persuasion and coercion, had tired her.†   (source)
  • Hard to coerce a man who faints if he gets overexcited.†   (source)
  • "I didn't coerce you into cutting class.†   (source)
  • He's a good man who genuinely cared about Chinese women and was horrified by coerced abortions.†   (source)
  • Once he was no longer being coerced, his instincts bubbled back to the surface.†   (source)
  • For example, they could use coercion against disobedient cities.†   (source)
  • Moody was devious enough to coerce any number of his relatives to spy upon me.†   (source)
  • If the people made the appointments, they could not be coerced by cabals and intrigue.†   (source)
  • You are not required to—the days of coercion are gone—but you are urged to.†   (source)
  • I said angrily, "Prof, you carry this 'no coercion' idea too far!†   (source)
  • The fear of coercion is the main objection to giving the power to a smaller group of men.†   (source)
  • Or coerced him in some way.†   (source)
  • The irony was that the woman had coerced him into writing what was easily the best of the 'Misery' novels.†   (source)
  • He had thought of all this in the second or two before he shot the pilot but had not been able to think of a way to coerce or trust the man.†   (source)
  • He is much more accomplished at Occlumency than poor Morfin Gaunt, and I would be astonished if he has not carried an antidote to Veritaserum with him ever since I coerced him into giving me this travesty of a recollection.†   (source)
  • Intellect and body fused, I now yearned to contribute fully, embodied with conscious energy, to live a deliberate existence dedicated to a future humanity which might in complete freedom achieve the realization of its creative impulses, the totality of its potential faculties, without injustice, coercion, hunger and exploitation.†   (source)
  • In 1997 a jury in Washington State found that Taco Bell had systematically coerced its crew members into working off the clock in order to avoid paying them overtime.†   (source)
  • But to coerce a confession from him, police officers had beaten Joshua so brutally that even in 1965 the Louisiana Supreme Court felt the need to overturn his conviction.†   (source)
  • Truth serum would be preferable, of course, but it would take days to coerce Jack Kang into handing some over, as it is jealously guarded by the Candor, and I'd rather not waste a few days.†   (source)
  • Banks was coerced into pleading guilty to killing a child who had never existed along with her sister, Ms.†   (source)
  • When I made him repeat the parts of his testimony about being coerced to testify falsely, Ralph remained calm and conveyed absolute sincerity.†   (source)
  • Michael and I decided to spend more time looking into the Pittman murder; we thought it might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers.†   (source)
  • Dr. Norman Poythress from Taylor Hardin explained that Myers had told him that "his prior 'confessions' are bogus and were coerced out of him by the police through keeping him physically and psychologically isolated."†   (source)
  • But to make up for it, she was nice enough to coerce me into having dinner at a friend's house tonight."†   (source)
  • Two: To accomplish his mission, Kahlid must coerce an American soldier into the position of making such a plea by presenting him with precisely the kind of threat he'd chosen.†   (source)
  • Still, she remained determined to resist Galbatorix's attempts at coercion, no matter how much time seemed to go by.†   (source)
  • Its task, as set out in the government's instructions, was to uncover and prevent threats to the internal security of the nation, that is, "unlawful activity that uses violence, threat, or coercion for the purpose of altering our form of government, inducing decision-making political entities or authorities to take decisions in a certain direction, or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties."†   (source)
  • Great histrionics and blatant coercion.†   (source)
  • The French defenses weren't accustomed to engaging enemy aircraft over their soil-the sudden shift in power was only two weeks old, and the military was being coerced.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they spied for money, sometimes for sex or respect, and sometimes they spied because they were coerced, owing to some blemish in their personal life.†   (source)
  • His eyes were a little too bright, and the way he had suddenly come out with the idea that Kemp might have coerced the woman by using the kid … well, such ideas, if they were going to come, ought to come from Andy Masen.†   (source)
  • Part of me wants to take her by the shoulders and beg her for help, but I can't coerce her into doing this.†   (source)
  • One 2008 study of Indian brothels found that of Indian and Nepali prostitutes who started as teenagers, about half said they had been coerced into the brothels; women who began working in their twenties were more likely to have made the choice themselves, often to feed their children.†   (source)
  • In it, laws must be enforced by the destructive coercion of the sword instead of the mild and solitary coercion of the magistracy.†   (source)
  • Military Coercion Never Works†   (source)
  • The community corporation had tried to coerce them into covering it up and had offered to replace it with a simulacrum window such as the underground apartments used, with a relayed view of the canyon.†   (source)
  • He turned to us, "Repeat after me — " "I, being of legal age, of my own free will — " " 'I,' " we each echoed, " 'being of legal age, of my own free will — ' " " — without coercion, promise, or inducement of any sort, after having been duly advised and warned of the meaning and consequences of this oath — " " — do now enroll in the Federal Service of the Terran Federation for a term of not less than two years and as much longer as may be required by the needs of the Service — " (I…†   (source)
  • …his annihilation of the three flying cities of the Titans, and Krishna the Dark moved through the Wrestler's Dance in commemoration of his breaking of the black demon Bana, while Lakshmi danced the Dance of the Statue, and even Lord Vishnu was coerced into celebrating again the steps of the Dance of the Amphora, as Murugan, in his new body, laughed at the world clad in all her oceans, and did his dance of triumph upon those waters as upon a stage, the dance that he had danced after the…†   (source)
  • By the simple expedient of recruiting intelligent and educated men, paying them adequately, and setting them beyond political coercion, many states have succeeded in creating elite corps of men, secure in their dignity and proud of their service.†   (source)
  • You can't buy an M. I., you can't conscript him, you can't coerce him — you can't even keep him if he wants to leave.†   (source)
  • His tone immediately sharp and coercive.†   (source)
  • Communal sing-alongs had a faintly coercive quality—that way strangers had of catching each other's eye as their voices rose—which she was determined to resist.†   (source)
  • This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked.†   (source)
  • Although the organization does not perform abortions or fund them, critics noted that it advises China on population issues and that China has a coercive family planning program.†   (source)
  • A State Department fact-finding mission sent to investigate by the George W. Bush administration reported back: "We find no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the People's Republic of China.†   (source)
  • In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.†   (source)
  • I would think of the sin as garments which we would remove in order to shape and coerce the terrible blood to the forlorn echo of the dead word high in the air.†   (source)
  • Tolstoy renounced wealth, fame and privilege; he abjured violence in all its forms and was ready to suffer for doing so; but it is not easy to believe that he abjured the principle of coercion, or at least the DESIRE to coerce others.†   (source)
  • Confronted with a picture of a revolutionary and changing world, there spilled out of our hearts our reaction to that world, our hope, our anger at oppression, our dreams of a new life; it spilled without coercion, without the pleading of anyone.†   (source)
  • Or whether they figured that the Lord had delivered the enemy into their hands, that they could get him dead to rights on the business of attempting to corrupt, coerce, and blackmail the Legislature, in addition to the other little charges of malfeasance and nonfeasance.†   (source)
  • And it struck her, this was tragedy—not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.†   (source)
  • So while Ellen was using her tears not only to coerce her father but to persuade Sutpen to put his weight into the balance on her side, he had but one enemy—Mr Coldfield.†   (source)
  • I should be transient as the shadow on the meadow, soon fading, soon darkening and dying there where it meets the wood, were it not that I coerce my brain to form in my forehead; I force myself to state, if only in one line of unwritten poetry, this moment; to mark this inch in the long, long history that began in Egypt, in the time of the Pharaohs, when women carried red pitchers to the Nile.†   (source)
  • And he had the money because he knew that she knew that the money was the only thing she could coerce and smooth him into the barrier with when Derby Day came so she didn't dare pinch him there and she knew he knew it so that maybe he even blackmailed her, bought her off that way: 'You give me the jack as I want it and I wont ask why or what for yet.'†   (source)
  • Tolstoy renounced wealth, fame and privilege; he abjured violence in all its forms and was ready to suffer for doing so; but it is not easy to believe that he abjured the principle of coercion, or at least the DESIRE to coerce others.†   (source)
  • It's coercion.†   (source)
  • And he (Grandfather) didn't know what had happened: whether Sutpen had found out in some way that Henry had at last coerced his conscience into agreeing with him as his (Henry's) father had done thirty years ago, whether Judith perhaps had written her father that she had heard from Bon at last and what she and Bon intended to do, or if the four of them had just reached as one person that point where something had to be done, had to happen, he (Grandfather) didn't know.†   (source)
  • Yes, fatality and curse on the South and on our family as though because some ancestor of ours had elected to establish his descent in a land primed for fatality and already cursed with it, even if it had not rather been our family, our father's progenitors, who had incurred the curse long years before and had been coerced by Heaven into establishing itself in the land and the time already cursed.†   (source)
  • …dragged her out of whatever two dimensional backwater (the very name of which, town or village, she either had never known or the shock of her exodus from it had driven the name forever from her mind and memory) her mentality had been capable of coercing food and shelter from, and married her, held her very hand doubtless while she made the laborious cross on the register before she even knew his name or knew that he was not a white man (and this last none knew even now if she knew for…†   (source)
  • …had been: so that Grandfather did not even say 'I don't know which you should choose' not because that was all he could have said and so to say that would be less than no answer at all, but that anything he might have said would have been less than no answer at all since Sutpen was not listening, did not expect an answer, who had not come for pity and there was no advice that he could have taken, and justification he had already coerced from his conscience thirty years ago.†   (source)
  • It is all very well to preach about self-control, and the wickedness of coercing a woman.†   (source)
  • The forehead, free from mainstay or coercion, Bends here, there, everywhere.†   (source)
  • Yes—some are like that, instead of uniting with the man against the common enemy, coercion.†   (source)
  • The Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her grave.†   (source)
  • But by sheer self-coercion he refrained.†   (source)
  • The doubtful legitimacy of such rough coercion did not disturb the mind of Venn.†   (source)
  • And now dear lady, let me remove this unpleasant coercion, which has been placed before your pretty mouth.†   (source)
  • Authority, coercion are what is needed.†   (source)
  • When he was not affectionately coercing people into buying things they did not need, he stood at the back of the store, glowing, abstracted, feeling masculine as he recalled the tempestuous surprises of love revealed by Vida.†   (source)
  • But by ruses and coercion, his family had taken him away from her—and the lad had probably been repulsed by her illness, too, which by then had begun to evidence itself in various violent eruptions.†   (source)
  • All institutions dedicated to genuine education have always known that there can be only one central truth in any pedagogy, and that is: absolute authority and an ironclad bond—discipline and sacrifice, renunciation of the ego and coercion of the personality.†   (source)
  • Coercion!†   (source)
  • Except that chastity only apparently triumphed, its victory was a Pyrrhic victory, because the demands of love could not be fettered, or coerced; suppressed love was not dead, it continued to live on in the dark, secret depths, straining for fulfillment—and broke the bands of chastity and reappeared, though in transmuted, unrecognizable form.†   (source)
  • And quoting the biblical verse "Vengeance is mine," he pointed out that the state, if its purpose was ennoblement and not coercion, should not repay evil with evil, and went on to repudiate the concept of "punishment," after first having refuted that of "guilt," basing his argument on scientific determinism.†   (source)
  • While you looked so, I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.†   (source)
  • Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?†   (source)
  • It is hardly too much to say that she felt coerced by a force stronger than her own will, not only into the act of promising upon this singularly remote and vague matter, but into the emotion of fancying that she ought to promise.†   (source)
  • I can always sacrifice my feelings for my family's welfare," he said to himself, "but I can't coerce my feelings.†   (source)
  • But the main element of their success was this, that wherever the working people were not coerced, they worked, not for the reactionists, but for 'the rebels.'†   (source)
  • The place was last painted or whitewashed beyond the memory of man, and the two chimneys smoke, and there is a loose outer surface of soot everywhere, and the dull cracked windows in their heavy frames have but one piece of character in them, which is a determination to be always dirty and always shut unless coerced.†   (source)
  • I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me.†   (source)
  • There is a terrible coercion in our deeds, which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver and then reconcile him to the change, for this reason—that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable right.†   (source)
  • In the present age the human mind must be coerced into theoretical studies; it runs of its own accord to practical applications; and, instead of perpetually referring it to the minute examination of secondary effects, it is well to divert it from them sometimes, in order to raise it up to the contemplation of primary causes.†   (source)
  • No! the only way in which Mr. Brooke could be coerced into thinking of the right arguments at the right time was to be well plied with them till they took up all the room in his brain.†   (source)
  • Wherefore when Kim, aching in every bone, opened his eyes, and would go to the cook-house to get his master's food, he found strong coercion about him, and a veiled old figure at the door, flanked by the grizzled manservant, who told him very precisely the things that he was on no account to do.†   (source)
  • To aid this good resolution, too, there was the certainty that June would reveal nothing, but take refuge in a stubborn silence, if any attempt were made to coerce her.†   (source)
  • …only fellow-men who enjoy a period of high appreciation and full-blown eulogy; in many respectable families throughout this realm, relatives becoming creditable meet with a similar cordiality of recognition, which in its fine freedom from the coercion of any antecedents, suggests the hopeful possibility that we may some day without any notice find ourselves in full millennium, with cockatrices who have ceased to bite, and wolves that no longer show their teeth with any but the blandest…†   (source)
  • In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.†   (source)
  • It does not directly coerce the subject, but it renders the majority more absolute over those in power; it does not confer an unbounded authority on the legislator which can be exerted at some momentous crisis, but it establishes a temperate and regular influence, which is at all times available.†   (source)
  • Starbuck's body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbuck's brain; still he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred his captain's quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself from it, or even frustrate it.†   (source)
  • The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature struggling in the bands of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither, the outcome was sure to strike others as at once exaggeration and inconsistency.†   (source)
  • The excesses of monarchical power had devised a variety of physical means of oppression: the democratic republics of the present day have rendered it as entirely an affair of the mind as that will which it is intended to coerce.†   (source)
  • IV Rough Coercion Is Employed Those words of Thomasin, which seemed so little, but meant so much, remained in the ears of Diggory Venn: "Help me to keep him home in the evenings."†   (source)
  • How should it add to the variety or dispel the dulness, to coerce certain families or tribes, often heterogeneous and jarring with one another, into certain artificial and mechanical groups, and call them nations, and stimulate their patriotism—_i.e._, their foolish and envious prejudices?†   (source)
  • The multitude requires no laws to coerce those who think not like itself: public disapprobation is enough; a sense of their loneliness and impotence overtakes them and drives them to despair.†   (source)
  • …silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission — the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance.†   (source)
  • Of course that is all ended, since families are held together by no bond of coercion, legal or social, but by mutual liking and affection, and everybody is free to come or go as he or she pleases.†   (source)
  • To make the novel wants and interests, which the growing principle of equality introduced, preponderate in government, our contemporaries had to overturn or to coerce the established powers.†   (source)
  • I assert that there is no country in Europe in which the public administration has not become, not only more centralized, but more inquisitive and more minute it everywhere interferes in private concerns more than it did; it regulates more undertakings, and undertakings of a lesser kind; and it gains a firmer footing every day about, above, and around all private persons, to assist, to advise, and to coerce them.†   (source)
  • "Briefly," said he, "by the absence of artificial coercion, and the freedom for every man to do what he can do best, joined to the knowledge of what productions of labour we really wanted.†   (source)
  • When, on the contrary, a man always chooses a wife for himself, without any external coercion or even guidance, it is generally a conformity of tastes and opinions which brings a man and a woman together, and this same conformity keeps and fixes them in close habits of intimacy.†   (source)
  • By far the greater part of these in past days were the result of the laws of private property, which forbade the satisfaction of their natural desires to all but a privileged few, and of the general visible coercion which came of those laws.†   (source)
  • The North, on the other hand, once compromise and reconciliation had failed, had to wage a successful coercive war in order to restore the Union.†   (source)
  • …emotion (even that of grief); when the heartstrings, which prosperity has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, even a brutal hand, even if it shall break them; when the will, which has with such difficulty brought itself to subdue its impulse, to renounce its right to abandon itself to its own uncontrolled desires, and consequent sufferings, would fain cast its guiding reins into the hands of circumstances, coercive and, it may be, cruel.†   (source)
  • The masses had long since learned that for the education and discipline needed in the battle against the decaying bourgeoisie they should look elsewhere than to coercive schools imposed by the authorities; and by now every idiot knew that the school system developed from the cloisters of the Middle Ages was as anachronistic and absurd as a periwig, that no one owed his real education to schools anymore, and that free, open instruction by public lectures, exhibitions, films, and so…†   (source)
  • In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits.†   (source)
  • It was like a soft presence—like a small hand in her own; on Pansy's part it was more than an affection—it was a kind of ardent coercive faith.†   (source)
  • As he rubs himself upon a large jack-towel, blowing like a military sort of diver just come up, his hair curling tighter and tighter on his sunburnt temples the more he rubs it so that it looks as if it never could be loosened by any less coercive instrument than an iron rake or a curry-comb—as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turning his head from side to side the more conveniently to excoriate his throat, and standing with his body well bent forward to keep the wet from…†   (source)
  • Henchard's visits here grew so frequent and so regular that it soon became whispered, and then openly discussed in Casterbridge that the masterful, coercive Mayor of the town was raptured and enervated by the genteel widow Mrs. Newson.†   (source)
  • Except right here, where Oedipa Maas, with a thousand other people to choose from, had had to walk uncoerced into the presence of madness.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoerced means not and reverses the meaning of coerced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "He didn't send you along just to coerce me into damaging revelations, did he?"†   (source)
  • Married to him by coercion and dependent on him from necessity, I had undeniably grown very fond of Jamie.†   (source)
  • We may form some judgment of this scheme of military coercion from a sample given by Thuanus.†   (source)
  • For there was then no government by Coercion, but only by Doctrine, and Perswading.†   (source)
  • I'd die before I'd submit to coercion.†   (source)
  • From The Comparison Of It, With Fishing, Leaven, Seed And is compared by our Saviour, to Fishing; that is, to winning men to obedience, not by Coercion, and Punishing; but by Perswasion: and therefore he said not to his Apostles, hee would make them so many Nimrods, Hunters Of Men; But Fishers Of Men.†   (source)
  • It has rarely been attempted to be employed, but against the weaker members; and in most instances attempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient have been the signals of bloody wars, in which one half of the confederacy has displayed its banners against the other half.†   (source)
  • Even in those confederacies which have been composed of members smaller than many of our counties, the principle of legislation for sovereign States, supported by military coercion, has never been found effectual.†   (source)
  • The Amphictyons had in their hands the superstition of the times, one of the principal engines by which government was then maintained; they had a declared authority to use coercion against refractory cities, and were bound by oath to exert this authority on the necessary occasions.†   (source)
  • This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways: by the agency of the courts and ministers of justice, or by military force; by the COERCION of the magistracy, or by the COERCION of arms.†   (source)
  • There is nothing of this kind declared in the articles that compose it; and to imply a tacit guaranty from considerations of utility, would be a still more flagrant departure from the clause which has been mentioned, than to imply a tacit power of coercion from the like considerations.†   (source)
  • Whoever considers the populousness and strength of several of these States singly at the present juncture, and looks forward to what they will become, even at the distance of half a century, will at once dismiss as idle and visionary any scheme which aims at regulating their movements by laws to operate upon them in their collective capacities, and to be executed by a coercion applicable to them in the same capacities.†   (source)
  • The important truth, which it unequivocally pronounces in the present case, is that a sovereignty over sovereigns, a government over governments, a legislation for communities, as contradistinguished from individuals, as it is a solecism in theory, so in practice it is subversive of the order and ends of civil polity, by substituting VIOLENCE in place of LAW, or the destructive COERCION of the SWORD in place of the mild and salutary COERCION of the MAGISTRACY.†   (source)
  • But from the Power to Teach onely, hee inferreth also a Coercive Power in the Pope, over Kings.†   (source)
  • All which sorts of Power, are Soveraign, and Coercive.†   (source)
  • …Government can possibly happen to the people in generall, is scarce sensible, in respect of the miseries, and horrible calamities, that accompany a Civill Warre; or that dissolute condition of masterlesse men, without subjection to Lawes, and a coercive Power to tye their hands from rapine, and revenge: nor considering that the greatest pressure of Soveraign Governours, proceedeth not from any delight, or profit they can expect in the dammage, or weakening of their subjects, in whose…†   (source)
  • Therefore before the names of Just, and Unjust can have place, there must be some coercive Power, to compell men equally to the performance of their Covenants, by the terrour of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their Covenant; and to make good that Propriety, which by mutuall Contract men acquire, in recompence of the universall Right they abandon: and such power there is none before the erection of a Common-wealth.†   (source)
  • Why Certain Creatures Without Reason, Or Speech, Do Neverthelesse Live In Society, Without Any Coercive Power It is true, that certain living creatures, as Bees, and Ants, live sociably one with another, (which are therefore by Aristotle numbred amongst Politicall creatures;) and yet have no other direction, than their particular judgements and appetites; nor speech, whereby one of them can signifie to another, what he thinks expedient for the common benefit: and therefore some man may…†   (source)
  • If now it should appear, that there is no Coercive Power left them by our Saviour; but onely a Power to proclaim the Kingdom of Christ, and to perswade men to submit themselves thereunto; and by precepts and good counsell, to teach them that have submitted, what they are to do, that they may be received into the Kingdom of God when it comes; and that the Apostles, and other Ministers of the Gospel, are our Schoolemasters, and not our Commanders, and their Precepts not Laws, but…†   (source)
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