coercion

“The law is clear: competition, not coercion, should decide what news channels Americans can watch. By leveraging its must-have status, Fox has blocked new voices, suppressed consumer choice, and extracted excess profits.”

"There was never any coercion, violence, or protest between us," he said, referring to Arnould.

Soft power is the ability to “obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion and payment” — through means, that is, other than bullets, bullying and bribery.

At the February protest, Ms Docherty held up a sign that said "coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want".

The implied threat that can accompany soft coercion is bad enough.