Sentence examples for coercive leverage from inspiring English sources
"It's always nice to go into these negotiations with some coercive leverage," Mr. Takeyh said, "because the Iranians have their own leverage: They're not stopping enrichment".
Despite our violent acquisition of indigenous land and our coercive leveraging of black slaves as financial instruments, the postcolonial story of America, set against the landholding, white-males only, yet egalitarian image of our Constitution is still an idea worthy of perennial refinement into our laws, practices, and governance.
Under-secretary of defence for policy Michèle Flournoy says a successful counter-insurgency strategy involves: Leveraging the coercive... force to establish a safe and secure environment … establish political, legal, social and … economic institutions; and help transition responsibility to a legitimate civil authority operating under the rule of law... toward long-term developmental activities.
Domestic law enforcement agencies do it to prevent suspects from colluding on alibis and allow investigators the leverage to use non-coercive interrogation techniques like confronting one detainee with the other's statements.
It is now time to sketch out and begin to act on what a more coercive policy would look like, using the leverage we have.
This discrepancy provides analytic leverage to identify the possible presence of coercive mobilization and vote suppression and to pinpoint their geographic location.
And while its advocates do not typically emphasize the point, the DRR permits secular citizens to articulate religious reasons that will persuade religious believers to accept the secular citizens' favored coercive laws (for reservations about this practice, see Audi 1997, 135-37 on "leveraging reasons". See also Schwartzman 2014).
Despite substantial interest in the coercive aspects of ACT, no studies have focused specifically on understanding the phenomenology of the use and experience of leverage in ACT.
