coercion

But the implication of overt coercion is always bubbling beneath the surface.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Dolly Parton's management company has accused her nephew of "threats, intimidation, and coercion", revealing a bitter battle over the late star's legacy and business interests.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

She’s Alive also sued Seaver, alleging that he carried out a deliberate campaign to interfere with the company’s business relationships with threats and coercion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Economist Guillaume Liby said African countries were "tackling the problem from the wrong end: coercion".

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Padva attends, after some coercion by Chandresh, gloriously adorned in golden silks embroidered with red filigree, crimson feathers in her white hair.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Who knows what coercions they deployed back in the day to corral those students into submission; at least that’s the fear evinced by today’s new campus dating policies.

From Newsweek ● Mar. 20, 2015

For now let us observe that the ethical sentiment and idea, properly so-called, are independent of the ideas and sentiments above described as derived from external authorities, and coercions, and approbations—religious, political, or social.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

They are products of the effort of each to live as well as he can, and they are coercions which hold and control each in his efforts to live well.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

This is especially true of the "pro-ethical" consciousnesses of external authorities, coercions, and opinions—religious, political, and social—by which the mass of mankind are governed; and is broadly due to variation in social conditions.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

It must be, therefore, necessary to supply the defects of education, and to produce, by salutary coercions, those effects which it is vain to expect from other causes.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson