Sentence examples for means of compulsion from inspiring English sources

Such laws would furnish the readiest means of compulsion.

Experience has taught that mere requests for such information often are unavailing, and also that information which is volunteered is not always accurate or complete; so some means of compulsion are essential to obtain what is needed.

Corruption may have been tolerated as a political tool, but this was largely in lieu of other means of compulsion; Arafat's creed was that it is better to lubricate than to liquidate.

"It's your turn": in that phrase, there's a glimpse of a particularly cruel means of compulsion that seems to have been used on the boys he is accused of sexually abusing or raping.

(It makes for an interesting comparison to recent American programs that, to remain market-neutral, simply forced banks to take "help" they didn't always want. The fund doesn't have such means of compulsion to make countries take its money, and the fashion until recently had been to pay off all IMF loans and loudly declare financial "independence").

First, the rationale for use of the Mental Health Act (and other legal means of compulsion such as the use of parental consent) for most of the respondents appears to be the protection of patient health and welfare, rather than patients' loss of competence to make treatment decisions.

But the dreamlike, supernatural aspect of his work is never gratuitous, and it always evolves out of locatable, concrete settings by means of an emotional compulsion whose authenticity is never in doubt.

Yasir Arafat may not be able to prevent every Palestinian terrorist from attacking Israelis, but he has formidable means of political persuasion and police compulsion at his disposal.

At the same time, they should present their prisoners to the world to back up their claims of "torture, compulsion and revenge". These are the right questions to ask of the means and motive of any regime of imprisonment, no matter how presumptively valid (Hamas might want to look into the mirror of "compulsion and revenge" while they are at it).

So it's this element of compulsion.

But the immense weight of compulsion has been lifted.