coercive power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcoerciveandpower
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coercive
adjective
uk/kəʊˈɜː.sɪv/us/koʊˈɝː.sɪv/
using force to persuade people to do things that they are unwilling ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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But withoutcoercivepowertheir intervention had little impact.
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While lackingcoercivepower, the ombudsman may emit resolutions on the basis of these citizens' complaints.
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Any exercise ofcoercivepower, domestic or international by the state must be justifiable in the same political terms.
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Thecoercivepowerstruggles that might emerge in dyads with this combination of risk factors are not difficult to imagine.
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The power forcibly to convey is clearly acoercivepower.
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It moved slowly and in varying degrees away from this traditional model, as the rulers' power grew along with the state's resources andcoercivepower.
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Coherence is lost by calling upon thecoercivepowerof the state to protect against verbal oppression, thereby subordinating and marginalizing some members of society.
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The protection of the realm of conscience from thecoercivepowerof the state stemmed in part from the following two ideas.
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Radical reform involved a sharp differentiation between the statecoercivepowerbuilt upon an emergent agrarian bourgeoisie, and an increasingly polarised rural class structure.
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State-sponsored intellectual life could be expected to result in the upholding of the true religion, so long as the salaried scholars were deniedcoercivepower.
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The term has come into use in this way precisely because thecoercivepowerand regulatory authority of the sovereign state is being called into question.
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These representations predicate a desire to intervene that, matched with a capacity to do so, establish ' a discourse of justification ' inducing consent supported bycoercivepower.
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That is a far morecoercivepowerthan stop and search.
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They appear almost identical, apart from the use of coercion—guardianship is not acoercivepower.
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We are dealing with thecoercivepowerof the state over its citizens.
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The state has no greatercoercivepowerthan the deprivation of liberty.
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It would have nocoercivepower, but its moral authority might sway public opinion.
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The first distinction is betweencoercivepowerand persuasive power.
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Punishment is the clearest peacetime example of thecoercivepowerof the state which is exercised in our name.
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Settlement and mortuary archaeology and artefact studies all show traces of concentrations of wealth and of the organisation of labour and resources normally associated with thecoercivepowerof elites.
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If we change the hypothetical to confercoercivepoweron the bystander-he has a stick and might break your windshield if you disobey-the analysis remains the same.
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It might be the answer to the difficulties with which you are faced the moment you propose to usecoercivepowerin any international matter.
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Arrest is acoercivepowerwhich we hope will not be needed, but the power should be available if the cirumstances justify its exercise.
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It is true of the police service, the customs, the immigration service and the agencies, as they use thecoercivepowerof the state.
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The procedure does not exist in ordinary societies, since voluntary associations have nocoercivepower.
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