Sentence examples for coercive leveraging from inspiring English sources
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.
That strategy produces coercive leverage which suicide terrorist leaders, over the last twenty years, have learned pays dividends.
"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".
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.
The Afghan model vastly improves U.S. leverage in coercive diplomacy and war because it requires few U.S. ground troops and facilitates the transition to stability and democracy by empowering indigenous allies.
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.
"These acts by the U.S. apparently came from a medieval-era way of thinking that only threatening, coercive and barbarian tactics could enhance its negotiating leverage," DPRK Today, a state-sponsored website, said Monday, also complaining about recent military exercises with Japan involving nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and bombers.
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.
