Sentence examples for coercive act from inspiring English sources

The fourth Coercive Act included new arrangements for housing British troops in occupied American dwellings, thus reviving the indignation that surrounded the earlier Quartering Act, which had been allowed to expire in 1770.

Only the coercive act, functioning as a sanction, ought to be" (Kelsen 1967, 119).

In March 1774 the British Parliament enacted the Coercive Act, with the aim of punishing the Bostonians for what they did and reestablishing order in Massachusetts.

Ayesha Khan, legal director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the court "disregarded the interests of religious minorities and nonbelievers" as if people "having to" listen to a 20-second prayer by a neighbor (the decision is about local town councils where people tend to know each other) is some terribly disrespectful, excluding, coercive act.

… and that the alternative is not better.' It becomes difficult when one does not feel confident that the coercive act is good for the patient.

You could make a case that New England was thoroughly committed to rebellion after the passage of the Coercive Acts in 1774.

Neutrals or opponents are not apt to be much affected even by an intensive barrage of propaganda unless it is reinforced by nonpropagandistic inducements (economic or coercive acts) or by favourable social pressures.

Article 7 of the statute of the international criminal court describes the "deportation or forcible transfer of population... by expulsion or other coercive acts" as a crime against humanity.

Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, (1774), in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War (1754 63).

In the wake of Parliament's passage of the Coercive Acts (which included a measure closing Boston Harbor to trade), Adams is tireless but unable to persuade delegates from the other colonies to support a struggle that, so far, looks to be Boston's fight.

He was again a leading figure in the opposition of Massachusetts to the execution of the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts passed by the British Parliament in retaliation for the dumping of tea in Boston Harbor, and, as a member of the First Continental Congress, which spoke for the 13 colonies, he insisted that the delegates take a vigorous stand against Britain.