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
It had been designed as a coercive measure, to be sure, but no one knew precisely to what extent it would affect English trade.
From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen
