coercions
- plural of coercion.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Falckenberg, Richard
Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Sumner, William Graham
