Sentence examples for A coercion from inspiring English sources

The Land Act did not go far enough to satisfy Parnell, who continued to make speeches couched in violent language, and, after a coercion act was passed by Parliament in the face of Irish obstructionism, he was arrested.

Civilisation needs to be wrested from nature by violence, but the violence lives on in the coercion used to protect civilisation - a coercion known among other things as the political state.

The article argues that this rejection of biofuels is due to a limited perception of power as a coercion and manipulation (power over).

Example 9d represents the non-default employment of a perfective adverb with a state verb29; modified by a perfective adverb a coercion effect is induced, the initial point of the state is focused leading to an inchoative reading (Meisterernst 2016b).

From an ecological resilience point of view, clinical interventions can be considered a "coercion" of the diseased regime [coerced resilience (Rist et al. 2014 ], by targeting the approximation of desired functionality of patients comparable to healthy individuals.

"We call it an adversary system, but a better term would be a coercion system.

Those who take the justification of authority to be the fundamental normative problem reject a coercion-based definition of legitimacy.

This cycle of nagging has been called a "mutual coercion" pattern in an important book, "Reconcilable Differences" by Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson.

As a result, coercion was hard to prove.

They wouldn't agree to it any other way, though a little coercion is sometimes necessary.

And it is a different coercion, only slightly less terrible to be forced to live homeless on the street.