Sentence examples for a coercive force from inspiring English sources

"The brigade can act as a coercive force in the broader context of a peace process".

General Musharraf said Afghanistan needed a "coercive force" to keep that country's warlords and tribal leaders in line.

But overall, the Taliban are a coercive force and their propaganda, while tactically effective from incident to incident, does not seem to have won over the great numbers of Afghans who don't want to be ruled by the Taliban.

But the constant raids and patrols can also alienate local residents, and reinforce the impression of the Americans as a coercive force with the overweening power to invade the homes of Iraqis, and detain them at will.

Thus, a magnetic material is required that has a high permeability, so that it will magnetize readily in a small field; a high remanent magnetization, so that the stored information can be easily "read"; and not too high (but not too low) a coercive force, so that the stored information can be erased without great difficulty.

A coercive force must be applied to reduce the remanent magnetization to zero and close the loop.

I suspect that the indefinite incarceration of a journalist in and of itself represents a significant coercive force on a source.

A good permanent magnet must have a large spontaneous magnetization in zero field (i.e., a high retentivity) and a high coercive force to prevent its being easily demagnetized by an external field.

This glassy alloy shows a high fracture strength ~ 4000 MPa with a plastic strain of 0.5%, a high saturation magnetization ~ 1.45 T and a low coercive force ~ 1.5 A/m.

A large coercive force has also been noticed in Fe2P nanorod (Hc = 3.9 kOe) [13] and nanoparticle samples (~5 kOe) [5].

The magnetic tests reveal ferromagnetic characteristics below the blocking temperature, and a large coercive force of ~5,000 Oe has been observed.