The phrase "amount of coercion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level or degree of pressure or force applied to influence someone's actions or decisions.
Example: "The amount of coercion used in the negotiation raised ethical concerns among the participants."
Alternatives: "degree of coercion" or "level of coercion".
State Department officials say that staffing certain posts abroad has long been tricky and has required a certain amount of coercion and finesse.
However, this time, the army is expected to indulge in whatever amount of coercion and vote-fiddling is needed to produce a "yes" vote.General Than Shwe, the army chief, and other junta leaders are said to believe their own propaganda about being the people's protectors and the guardians of the nation.
Under some circumstances, a subpoenant can be released early if he or she can demonstrate that no amount of coercion will result in the desired testimony.
It seems reasonable to assume that the total amount of coercion a person is subjected to is more likely to affect outcome than a single measure of coercion, only.
As in our previous study [ 3], based on the same material, coercion was not related to short-term outcome of psychiatric inpatient treatment, even though a measure more likely to capture the amount of coercion experienced by the patients was used in the present study.
As many students knew well before they launched their anti-fees campaign last summer, the best way to win this kind of fight is to implement a strategy that no amount of state coercion can overcome – a general, inclusive and "unlimited" boycott of classes.
The U.S. military -- after no small amount of legal coercion and serious scowling -- has now officially outpaced the church, the GOP, social conservatives, Mormons, black preachers, Mitt Romney, Fox News and your Republican grandparents in nearly all matters of gender, female empowerment and fundamental sexual freedom.
From this perspective, a transaction such as blood exchange includes the agency of both donor and recipient, and involves a certain amount of productive coercion.
A cynic would probably contend that this demonstration was less authentic than it looked, that it had an orchestration not always apparent to those caught up it, and that the pressure to stand up and clap when the people next to you are standing up and clapping amounts to coercion of a sort.
A federal appeals court ruled in 2000 that the program violated the inmates' constitutional right against compelled self-incrimination because, the court found, the consequences of refusing to participate were sufficiently onerous to amount to coercion.
Mr. Winner said the comments could amount to coercion, bribery and even conspiracy under the law.
