Then, against its will, using the most coercive means possible, the prisoner was coddled.

This report proposes a strategy that does not exclude the limited use of coercive means.

Terrorism is the use of coercive means aimed at civilian populations in an effort to achieve political, religious, or other aims.

Another reason given was that China, a U.N. fund recipient, sought to control population growth by coercive means.

"There is a possibility that this agent has coercive means to gain the cooperation or obedience of anyone inside, including the Holy Lama."

He urged his colleagues to stop using intelligence gleaned in Uzbekistan from terrorism suspects because it had been elicited through torture and other coercive means.

This elite has established ideologically uniform, repressive states which have imposed a Western model and outlook in Muslim societies by coercive means.

After 10 years or so of a policy based primarily on economic carrots, China has begun to show a willingness to use economic diplomacy for coercive means.

If the prosecution is relying on the defendant's confession, the defendant may assert that a false confession was extracted through coercive means.

Through persuasive and coercive means involving extended dialogue and interaction between executive and legislature, wise counsel prevailed and the University Bill was passed.

They still allow hearsay evidence, meaning that it in addition to making it impossible to cross-examine, one will never be known if such evidence is obtained through coercive means.

This inevitably results in violations of individual freedom, as this class of "law enforcers" seeks more and more power, and turns to more and more coercive means.

Coercive means were often used to obtain labourers, however, and the indentureship contracts were soon extended to 10 years after the planters complained they were losing their labour too early.

These regulations on indentured servant contracts arose from a great controversy in Britain over practice of "spiriting," whereby an agent or merchant would indenture an individual by deceptive and coercive means.

With a track record of being pro-people, pro-Filipino and honest, it calls for a government which relies on the continuing consent and support of the governed rather than coercive means to maintain power.

In addition to diplomatic protection and coercive means, states can establish ad hoc commissions and arbitral tribunals to adjudicate claims involving treatment of foreign nationals and their property by the host state.

Henceforth, he said, assumptions like the right of the state to bring about redistribution through such "coercive means" as progressive taxation "will need to be defended and argued for instead of being taken for granted."

The latter it has tied hand and foot by public laws, and commanded that every western state and army prevent any violation of economic laws with all the power and coercive means at its disposal.

It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

Often today, Rabbis are considered to be just more knowledgeable people, who serve as advisors and analyze how the Halacha applies to different situations, although some rabbinical figures and organizations impose their authority though coercive means.

But there was no ambivalence in other writers: Quinney (1975) insisted that the criminal law must be seen simply as 'a coercive means of enforcing the capitalist social and economic order on an unwilling populace', and added:

According to Althusser, the basic function of the RSA (heads of state, government, police, courts, army, etc.) is to intervene and act in favour of the ruling class by repressing the ruled class through violent and coercive means.

Hereditary systems probably came into being in order to ensure greater stability and continuity, since the election and the period of interregnum associated with it had often been an opportunity for ambitious and powerful candidates to resort to violent or coercive means to achieve the throne.

Because payment of tax is compulsory and enforced by the legal system, some political philosophies view taxation as theft (or as slavery, or as a violation of property rights), or tyranny, accusing the government of levying taxes via force and coercive means.

You link this with China's coercive measures of population management.

This is another reason why we cannot support the lifting of coercive measures.

But sometimes the state is forced to implement coercive measures.

Judicial action was reinforced by the development of coercive measures.

He said, "The key to behavioral change is voluntary, not coercive measures."

- I dislike coercive measures, but the matter is urgent.

Coercive measures are not enough to reduce crime and organised crime.

May I add that preventing crime should not mean more - and only more - coercive measures.

It is not feasible to apply coercive measures to royal scions.

This was followed by a number of other coercive measures described in the textbooks as pacific blockades.

On this issue, the report should have introduced coercive measures to eliminate this state of affairs.

"A victory will signal to politicians all around the country that voters want coercive measures and are unsatisfied with the present course."

The West would blame his hard-line opponents, not him, for introducing coercive measures - as it had done so many times before.

It is impossible to reason such fear away or attempt to eradicate it by coercive measures.

Other more coercive measures are almost bound to be used when participation breaks down - a general issue which will be returned to later.

But exaggerated fears risk fostering discrimination or demand for coercive measures that would drive the disease underground.

Our system of government, like trial by jury, puts all coercive measures to the test of hostile, questioning review.

Sanctions can take the form of any of a range of restrictive/coercive measures.

But judging by the woolly proposals in the report, there is no question of adopting coercive measures towards employers.

(Most of these coercive measures were banned Friday by the military command in Iraq.)

We cannot now withdraw those quotas with coercive measures that impinge upon the Member States’ substantive rights.

While the US manuals contained coercive measures, they did not rise to the level of what is generally defined as torture.

Beacon urges on the English government the adoption of strong coercive measures in order to eradicate Irish national feeling.

Failure to collectivize agriculture by voluntary means led briefly to the adoption of coercive measures to increase peasant participation.

There are the coercive measures of the gastro-nasal tubes and the plastering of the arms to which I have referred.

This is another reason why we cannot support the lifting of coercive measures.

But sometimes the state is forced to implement coercive measures.

You link this with China's coercive measures of population management.

Judicial action was reinforced by the development of coercive measures.

He said, "The key to behavioral change is voluntary, not coercive measures."

- I dislike coercive measures, but the matter is urgent.

May I add that preventing crime should not mean more - and only more - coercive measures.

It is not feasible to apply coercive measures to royal scions.

On this issue, the report should have introduced coercive measures to eliminate this state of affairs.

This was followed by a number of other coercive measures described in the textbooks as pacific blockades.

The West would blame his hard-line opponents, not him, for introducing coercive measures - as it had done so many times before.

Coercive measures are not enough to reduce crime and organised crime.

"A victory will signal to politicians all around the country that voters want coercive measures and are unsatisfied with the present course."

Other more coercive measures are almost bound to be used when participation breaks down - a general issue which will be returned to later.

It is impossible to reason such fear away or attempt to eradicate it by coercive measures.

But exaggerated fears risk fostering discrimination or demand for coercive measures that would drive the disease underground.

Our system of government, like trial by jury, puts all coercive measures to the test of hostile, questioning review.

But judging by the woolly proposals in the report, there is no question of adopting coercive measures towards employers.

(Most of these coercive measures were banned Friday by the military command in Iraq.)

We cannot now withdraw those quotas with coercive measures that impinge upon the Member States' substantive rights.

While the US manuals contained coercive measures, they did not rise to the level of what is generally defined as torture.

Beacon urges on the English government the adoption of strong coercive measures in order to eradicate Irish national feeling.

Coercive measures were initially avoided.

Failure to collectivize agriculture by voluntary means led briefly to the adoption of coercive measures to increase peasant participation.

"What I have in mind are attempts to undercut the charter-stipulated powers of the Security Council to use coercive measures," he said.

"The international community has not been able to bring enough coercive power to force him out."

"He is only a human being, for all his coercive power.

His coercive power settled over them like a bright net.

In these regions, the coercive power of the state was felt much more strongly that it had been before.

Coercive Power is the manager's ability to punish an employee.

Some disputes need the coercive power of the state to enforce a resolution.

If that coercive power were entirely taken away, they would probably soon break out into open violence and bloodshed.

Coercive power is associated with physical sanctions and force.

Of course these courts had no sort of real coercive powers.

Gordon strongly believed that the use of coercive power damages relationships.

It has a wide range of coercive powers, including forcing people to answer questions under oath.

When ties are weak, groups prefer a stronger leader with a coercive power base.

The Church was made dependent" on the coercive power of the secular sword.

He nodded gravely, struck a pose, and reached out with all of his coercive power.

I can feel your mighty coercive power even though you've got it leashed back."

The boatman's frenzy began to diminish under the drug and the pressure of the girl's coercive power.

Many Muslim fundamentalists would use the coercive powers of government to force compliance with their religious beliefs.

"What they are trying to do here is use the coercive power of the state to make parents shape up," Ms. Harris said.

"We have the advantage of being able to use the coercive power of the criminal-justice system to get people to stay."

These forms of power are commonly known as reward and coercive power respectively.

The husband had coercive powers to govern most aspects of a woman's life, particularly through his control of money.

Cherokee clans held the only coercive power within Cherokee society.

The procedure does not exist in ordinary societies, since voluntary associations have no coercive power.

For an instant, her coercive power stabbed out.