Thesaurus / coercion
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Food in Nigeria has long been weaponized, withheld, and used as a means of corruption and coercion by those in power.
FEEDING A NEW NIGERIANELSON C.J.JANUARY 22, 2021EATERThe complaint alleges that law enforcement deprived Alamance County voters “of their fundamental right to vote free from intimidation, harassment, threats, or other forms of coercion.”
PISTOLS, A HEARSE AND TRUCKS PLAYING CHICKEN: WHY SOME VOTERS FELT HARASSED AND INTIMIDATED AT THE POLLSBY ADRIANA GALLARDO, MARYAM JAMEEL AND RYAN MCCARTHYDECEMBER 4, 2020PROPUBLICAI started hearing about rampant sexual harassment, coercion and abuse of undocumented immigrant women in low-wage, temporary factory jobs.
TEMP WORKERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ALLEGED SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SAY THEY FACE RETALIATION FOR DOING SOBY MELISSA SANCHEZAUGUST 28, 2020PROPUBLICAIn the broadest sense, at home and internationally, the US is moving towards coercion and the exercise of hard power, and away from its previous strategies based on soft power and international leadership.
GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS SHOW HOW THE US HAS RETREATED FROM ITS POSITION AS A WORLD LEADERLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 9, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSIn my work on wrongful conviction cases in Philadelphia, I regularly encounter patterns of police misconduct including witness intimidation, evidence tampering and coercion.
POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE OFTEN HAVE A HISTORY OF COMPLAINTS BY CITIZENSLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 1, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSWhen together the law presumes she acted from his coercion, he therefore must be the sufferer, while she escapes.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESNeither did Virginia believe in the national policy of coercion of a state to return to the Union.
HALLOWED HERITAGE: THE LIFE OF VIRGINIADOROTHY M. TORPEYThe discussions on the coercion act had produced many personal conflicts in debate between Mr. O'Connell and the Irish secretary.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANHe argued that coercion was necessary; that crime could not be put down in Ireland but by the strong arm of the law.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANNext session the government brought in a Coercion Bill, which Mr. Parnell opposed vigorously.
GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN. VOL. 4 OF 8VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO COERCION
- ability
- authority
- bite
- capability
- coercion
- cogency
- competence
- determination
- dominance
- drive
- duress
- effect
- effectiveness
- efficacy
- emphasis
- fierceness
- forcefulness
- gumption
- guts
- impressiveness
- influence
- intensity
- intestinal fortitude
- obligation
- persistence
- persuasiveness
- point
- pressure
- puissance
- punch
- push
- requirement
- sapience
- stress
- validity
- validness
- vehemence
- vigor
- willpower
- abuse
- abusiveness
- autocracy
- brutality
- calamity
- coercion
- compulsion
- conquering
- control
- cruelty
- despotism
- dictatorship
- domination
- fascism
- force
- forcibleness
- hardness
- harshness
- injury
- injustice
- iron hand
- maltreatment
- martial law
- overthrowing
- persecution
- severity
- subduing
- subjection
- suffering
- torment
- tyrrany
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- burden
- choke
- clout
- coercion
- compulsion
- confinement
- constraint
- crunch
- discipline
- distress
- drag
- duress
- exigency
- force
- full court press
- hardship
- hassle
- heat
- hurry
- influence
- inside track
- load
- misfortune
- necessity
- obligation
- persuasion
- power
- press
- pressure cooker
- pull
- requirement
- strain
- stress
- sway
- tension
- trouble
- unnaturalness
- urgency
- weight
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