The task at hand remains to devise an imaginative coercive strategy that moves beyond economic penalties and exploits Khamenei's political vulnerabilities in a manner that compels him to expand his coalition and reach out to more moderate elements.
If negotiations fail to produce the complete report and its underlying evidence, then the Democrats will move to more coercive measures such as subpoenas, Nadler said.
In offering security guarantees to the North, Mr. Bush wisely overruled hawkish administration officials who preferred moving directly toward coercive economic and military steps.
He then admitted that Greece could minimise the coercive nature of its prayers by moving them earlier in the proceedings and asking clergy not to request the "physical participation" of the audience.
With his dated Vandyke, darting eyes, and shit-eating grin; with his wish to be more of a friend and entertainer than a boss, a wish torpedoed by the coercive feebleness of his patter and his horrifying dance moves; and with his unerring gift for joining conversations and killing them with one unpardonable remark, David was a new figure in sitcoms: the unbearable lead.
In Sattouf's memoir, his father's decision to move the family to Syria has the coercive force of a kidnapping.
The critics claim that a resettlement programme to move scattered rural populations to larger settlements was coercive and designed to clear the way for investors.
The passing of legislation, which includes bullying and coercive behaviour under the umbrella of domestic violence, has been a good move, but women really need more support to help them win these cases.
Officials of the Population Fund acknowledge that abuses in China go on despite a Chinese effort to end coercive practices but say they have been successfully helping local and national Chinese authorities move toward voluntary policies.
But all obscure a crucial point: the regional context of world politics and security.Despite its recent move in Georgia, Russia is, and likely to remain, essentially a regional hegemon, with its true coercive power confined to the Caucasus, Baltics and perhaps Central Asia.
