Sentence examples for powerful coercion from inspiring English sources

Speech is powerful; coercion exercised over our means of communication is more so.

9 A lawsuit no doubt may be used by an employer as a powerful instrument of coercion or retaliation.

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.

Historically, the use of coercion by powerful actors has been of great concern to philosophers and legal theorists.

Sexual coercion has a powerful effect on future adult sexuality.

Apache ceremonies were concerned mainly with the magical coercion of these powerful entities for the curing of disease and the acquisition of personal success in hunting and warfare.

SB 10's use of risk assessment tools gives judges a powerful method to continue the coercion, while pretending their decisions are based on science.

At this point, we do need a common powerful institution that can bring some coercion to bear, and that is government.

Therefore, power imbalance in supply chain relationships creates opportunities for more powerful firms to act opportunistically by exercising coercion, which may ultimately undermine the trust within the relationship (Belaya and Hanf 2012).

For Hicks, the assassination connects to his deeper suspicions about coercion and control by a powerful few over the confused masses — or, as he puts it about the official explanation: "We have figured it out.

"The Technology Revolution" manifesto decries any attempt to regulate private Internet service providers as an affront to liberty, yet seems to ignore that powerful telecommunications monopolies can wield as much coercion over the future of the Internet as the government.