Sentence examples for instruments of coercion from inspiring English sources
The instruments of coercion had gained the most, and they would expect Yeltsin to reward them in the future.
What that means is that they have a pool of money that they can use to monopolize all the instruments of coercion -- the army, police and intelligence services.
As far back as Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sechser said, American leaders and academics have argued that nuclear weapons can be instruments of coercion as well as deterrence.
Musharraf's regime exploits the judicial system as yet another instrument of coercion and intimidation to consolidate its illegitimate power.
Thus, the Board retains broad power to deal with the ways in which resort to judicial process may be used as a "powerful instrument of coercion or retaliation," ante, at 740.
Language, as powerful as it is, can never be controlled and can just as easily be used as an instrument of coercion as an instrument of resistance.
As I already had a valid, multiple-entry visa they could not use visa denial as an instrument of coercion to influence my writings before my planned visit.
Two Iraqi interim governments over the past 18 months left a trail of political bitterness, rampant corruption and chronic inefficiency, with militias playing a growing role as instruments of political coercion, Iraq experts say.
The darker version argued, for example, by Eli Zaretsky in his valuable cultural history of psychoanalysis, "Secrets of the Soul"—is that psychiatry became one of the instruments of soft coercion which liberal societies use to keep their citizens in line.
