coercive measure

Example Sentences

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“We will monitor leagues all over the world” to ensure proper stoppage time is played, Infantino said, though adding, “I don’t think there is any coercive measure to be taken.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2023

"Either a request for administrative or legal assistance would be necessary because a U.S. court cannot enforce a coercive measure in Switzerland," he said.

From Reuters • Feb. 18, 2013

Broad-shouldered, fearless Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo, who has led Norse opposition to Quisling and the Nazis, resigned his post last week in protest against their latest coercive measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Towards the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century, affairs assumed so critical an aspect that it became incumbent upon the central government to adopt some coercive measure.

From Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels by Arbuthnot, George

The people say it is a coercive measure to drive them into a state organization.

From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)