coercion

Those prosecutions depended on the successful exercise of significant military force and the coercion of involved governments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Some physicians expressed concerns about the need to protect patient trust, avoid coercion and prevent preferential treatment for wealthy donors.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

This sparked a domestic consumption movement to counter what many Taiwanese saw as economic coercion.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

So he began workshopping a twist, landing on a monster that is used by an oppressive community as a tool of coercion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Their alternative—there was an alternative, of course, since Milo detested coercion and was a vocal champion of freedom of choice—was to starve.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Who knows what coercions they deployed back in the day to corral those students into submission; at least that’s the fear evinced by today’s new campus dating policies.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 20, 2015

Between the coercions of the sensible order and those of the ideal order, our mind is thus wedged tightly.

From Pragmatism by William James

It must be, therefore, necessary to supply the defects of education, and to produce, by salutary coercions, those effects which it is vain to expect from other causes.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

But even then his sufferings were aggravated by the harassing coercions of the censor.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Juliet M. Soskice

“Between the coercions of the sensible order and those of the ideal order, our mind is thus wedged tightly”.

From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Delton Loring Geyer