Word Finder - coercion

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(not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

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(not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.

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A specific instance of coercing.

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Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

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The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.

She searched his gaze and responded with irritation, "If coercion is willing, then yes."

The school bully used coercion to force the other kids to give him their lunch money.

He refused to join Napoleon in any proposal for the coercion of Austria or the limitation of her armaments.

Henry, however, seems to have believed as much in the coercion of Scotland as in the conciliation of Ireland.

Coercion is not very ethical because it forces someone to do something they are not typically willing to do.

Disraeli's first strong vote of hostility was on a coercion bill for perishing and rebellious Ireland.

In1634-1635he was a leader in putting the' .colony in a state of defence against possible coercion by the English government.

If the child is under 12 or the offender uses coercion, maximum penalty is 12 years.

Belief in a Supreme Being is vague but universal, but as this Being is good, or at least neutral, he is disregarded, and the native applies himself to the propitiation and coercion, by magical means, of the countless malignant spirits with which he imagines himself to be surrounded, and which are constantly on the watch to catch him tripping.

Austria at last began to see that a policy of coercion was useless and dangerous, and made tentative efforts at conciliation.

As, however, the prince might approve a false type of Church, in spite of what they 2 both assumed to be the clear teaching of Scripture, and should so far be resisted, Browne and Barrow found themselves practically in the same attitude towards the prince's religious coercion.

Lord Eldon was no legislator - his one aim in politics was to keep in office, and maintain things as he found them; and almost the only laws he helped to pass were laws for popular coercion.

The financial bill and the coercion bill were both pressed forward, and each gave opportunities for discussion and, what was then new in parliament, for obstruction.

Her first time with him wasn't going to be the product of coercion; he respected her too much for that.

To secure for itself all those lands it used every imaginable and unimaginable method, including bribery, fraud and coercion.

Outside agencies can and should advise and even cajole, but I don't think coercion works.

Mr Dikes implies that universal causality (or randomness) - ie, materialism - equates with coercion.

The problem with a mandatory celibacy seems to me to be coercion.

This authority is in place to prevent coercion, pressure or payment for organs, which is illegal in the UK.

Further, unexpected experiences may also lead to reluctance to participate raising the question of when perseverance in following up participants becomes coercion?

Useless or counter-productive public spending cannot possibly justify the coercion involved in levying taxes.

Unlike a business firm, the state is an apparatus of direct extra-economic coercion.

Your ability to act as you wish has here been limited by the intentional coercion of others.

An important element of sexual health is freedom from sexual coercion.

The EU is planning voluntary cooperation among its military, not coercion.

Normative influence does not have to involve physical coercion.

Stephen long ago queried why the state coercion of the criminal law should give way to the private coercion that is duress.

Unlike C but like most Lisp dialects, Perl internally and dynamically handles all memory allocation, garbage collection, and type coercion.

These are exactly the two areas that capitalist commerce is never going to address without government coercion.

Its value lies in the absence of coercion or man-made obstacles to the exercise of people's powers and capacities.

Smith had to take coercion out of the equation and let the horse discover the pleasure of speed.

In the winter of1596-1597Francis was at Turin, and at his suggestion the duke decided on a regular plan for the coercion of the refractory Protestants.

The pope talked of coercion by arms; but Spain, to whom he looked for support, refused to be drawn into war, and the quarrel was finally settled by the mediation of France (March 22, 1607).

The acts of the Robber Synod were examined; fraud, violence and coercion were charged against it; its entire proceedings were annulled, and, at the third session, its leader, Dioscurus, was deposed and degraded.

In 1570 Grindal was translated to the archbishopric of York, where Puritans were few and coercion would be required mainly for Roman Catholics.

In spite of this vigorous coercion Cassius came to terms with Alexander, before he returned to the Euphrates to hold it against the Parthians.

Partly from fear of a national Polish rising which Napoleon held in reserve as a last means of coercion, and partly from a subtle resolve to use the French alliance as a means of securing rich domains at the expense of Turkey, Prussia, Sweden and England, Alexander decided to throw over his allies, Prussia and England, and to seize the spoils to which the conqueror pointed as the natural sequel of a Franco-Russian alliance.

The treaty of Tilsit may more reasonably be looked on as an expedient for piling up enormous political resources with a view to the coercion of Great Britain.

He suggested a joint intervention of the powers; but the conference, which met at St Petersburg in April 1824, came to nothing, since Turkey and the Greeks alike refused to be bound by its decisions, and Canning would not hear of coercion being applied to either.

The tsar consented, and proposed that the coercion should take the form of a pacific blockade of the Morea, so as to force Ibrahim, by cutting off his supplies, to evacuate the country.

Austria and Prussia protested against any coercion of the Porte " to serve revolutionary ends " and, failing to carry their views, withdrew from the conference.

In 1896 Lord Salisbury induced the other powers to unite in urging the execution of the reforms, but no agreement could be come to for the use of coercion, and Europe could but look on and protest.

But the Coalition represented, in fact, not the mass of the people, but only a small dominant minority,' and for years past this minority had neglected the social and economic needs of the mass of the people in the eager pursuit of party advantage and the effort to impose, by coercion and corruption failing other means, the Magyar language and Magyar culture on the non-Magyar races.

A Coercion Bill and a Land Bill passed in 1881 proved unsuccessful.

Throughout the struggle Fox was uniformly opposed to the coercion of the colonies and was the untiring critic of Lord North.

Holding firmly to the principle, voi16wv cb'cr c 197Tpoi., he did not allow himself to remain inactive in the presence of disease; he was not a merely " expectant " physician; as Sydenham puts it, his practice was " the support of enfeebled and the coercion of outrageous nature."

Originally a Democrat, and always a believer in states' rights, his strong Union sentiments caused him nevertheless to accept Lincoln's doctrine of coercion, and that, together with his anti-slavery sympathies, led him to act with the Republican party during the period of the Civil War.

Yet the momentous change which finally crushed out Congregationalism, by substitution of legal coercion for moral suasion as the final means of securing unity, came relatively late in the history of the ancient Catholic Church.

The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.

In politics an extreme States'-Rights Democrat, he opposed the coercion of the South, and after the Civil War became senior counsel for Jefferson Davis on his indictment for treason, and was one of his bondsmen; these facts and O'Conor's connexion with the Roman Catholic Church affected unfavourably his political fortunes.