The phrase "methods of coercion" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to various techniques or means used to force someone to do something against their will. Example: The dictator's regime was known for its brutal methods of coercion, with citizens being intimidated, blackmailed, and even tortured into compliance.
Keeping the accused isolated, denying them the presence of a lawyer during interrogation and then staging a media show trial of members of a minority group are age-old methods of coercion and domination by totalitarian regimes.
As an only exception the Fuehrer has decided that in the actual fighting zone no methods of coercion will be used against the population as long as the latter are helpful to the Wehrmacht.
A report in the newspaper O Globo described how militias had spread to 11 of Brazil's 26 states, often initially winning over slum residents by killing drug traffickers before imposing their own methods of coercion and control.
The Court's response was that, while application of the statute to less obvious methods of coercion might raise doubts about the adequacy of the standard of guilt, in the case before it, it was 'plain as a pikestaff that the present confessions would not be allowed in evidence whatever the school of thought concerning the scope and meaning of the Due Process Clause.' Id., at 101, 71 S.Ct., at 579.
"Pimps and customers use methods of coercion and control like those of other batterers: minimization and denial of physical violence, economic exploitation, social isolation, verbal abuse, threats and intimidation, physical violence, sexual assault, and captivity".
Some people have accused the group of using methods of coercion and empty promises in order to recruit new members and of being used as propaganda for the government of Alexander Lukashenko.
It could easily be used as a method of coercion, not just a romantic gesture.
The choice of the method of coercion is, however, critical because the use of the eminent domain power does not work well when applied to a high frequency of low level transactions that are difficult to price and monitor.
And the best drugs are supplied in return for 5% of an athlete's winnings - a wonderful, post-Glasnost twist on the East German method of coercion and Communist glory.
In some cases, physical torture accompanied the indoctrination, but in general the Chinese used the traditional methods of psychological coercion: repetition and humiliation.
On the other hand, by 1000, with landlords' acquisition of private judicial powers over tenants, there were new methods of rural coercion that did not depend on tenants' servile status, since landlords could also apply these methods to free peasants.
