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  • And when we use the term Coercion, nothing is farther from our thoughts than the carrying of blood and fire among those whom we still consider our brethren of South Carolina.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • Coercion is the point – and not in the usual governmental “do this or else” sense of fines, imprisonment, injury, and execution, but in the sense of eliminating your neural capacity to choose “or else”.

    One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009

  • Coercion is either going to be a strictly descriptive term with, at most, indirect moral significance, or a morally loaded one.

    Defining Coercion, Take Two 2007

  • Coercion is defined in a way that exempts anything done before the passage of the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act, and anything else Mr. Bush chooses.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Coercion is restrictive, not inspirational, and so the modern educator has less faith in coercion of all types and especially in the coarsest type of coercion which we call corporal punishment.

    New Developments in Education 1905

  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • The term Constructive Coercion essentially covers a number of different strategies that you and other friends and family members can use that are more forceful than those used to just convince an addict to enter treatment.

    Helping the Addict You Love M.D. Laurence M. Westreich 2007

  • A series of so-called Coercion Acts passed both before and since the Act of Union give undeniable evidence, if evidence were wanted, of the ceaseless, and as it would appear almost irrepressible, resistance in Ireland offered by the people to the enforcement of the law.

    England's Case Against Home Rule Albert Venn Dicey 1878

  • It is most important, however, to note that the valid opposition to so-called Coercion Acts may and ought to be greatly mitigated by careful adherence to two maxims which are obvious, but are often neglected.

    England's Case Against Home Rule Albert Venn Dicey 1878

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