coercion

Economist Guillaume Liby said African countries were "tackling the problem from the wrong end: coercion".

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

At the time, a representative for Ye dismissed the “baseless allegations” and accused Pisciotta of coercion, blackmail and extortion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Are you entering into this of your own free will — without any coercion?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

That’s the story behind his coercion against Canada to open the long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

An infantile captive wields certain coercions to fair treatment peculiar to nonage.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Douglas Duer

"English liberty" is perfectly consistent, as we all admit, with compulsory registration, vaccination, education, taxation, insurance, inspection, and countless other legal coercions.

From Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb) Hearnshaw

It was to be a series of moral coercions, either accomplished or attempted.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

Natural love, or love free from all ceremonial coercions, is not merely not a questionable source of marital happiness: it is the only source.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner