"moral coercion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about using moral arguments or principles to persuade someone to do something or to discourage them from doing something. For example, "John used moral coercion to get his son to apologize to his sister."
"Now let a thousand voices sing". Dr. Wise said he had publicized his research because of "moral coercion," against discussing the scrolls in normal scholarly channels without the approval of the official editors.
How have the procedures been changed since Sept. 11? Official U.S. military regulations on interrogation expressly forbid the "physical and moral coercion" outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.
This is significant by any standard, but especially so compared to moral coercion, environmental education, and monetary penalties, which have little to no effect.
The purpose is to rectify, from a nosographic perspective, the conclusion that, if an event can be simply characterized as a "threat", such threat may be defined not only as physical threat, but also as moral coercion, psychic intimidation, or symbolic coercion.
This conception of morally justified coercion therefore involves no conception of a moral community among persons.
True liberals, though, believe we can hold one another to moral account without coercion.
To some critics, that smacked of moral equivalence: The coercion and aggression have been overwhelmingly on the part of China against its smaller neighbors.
A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion.
Syrian violence must be met with forceful coercion from moral nations, and America must use its military power toward the ethical goal of eliminating chemical weapons.
There is, in one of the major moral shades of grey, coercion if performers lack recourse to earn adequate income, a culture of unbridled extremism in that one needs stand out in an fully saturated market, and a broad failure to enforce or advocate for sex worker (read: human) rights.
This makes no sense, but these ideas are very convenient for those who aspire to managerial politics; they remove moral barriers to manipulation and coercion.
