Their brutal, coercive methods have spread fear through the nation.

Federal investigators, for example, have used coercive methods against a select group of high-level terrorist leaders and operatives.

Thus the interrogators were used to getting the information they needed, pronto, and being able to deny later that any coercive methods had been used.

This objective could be reached through blatantly coercive methods or by those less obviously repressive.

Hidden details would no doubt come to light once more coercive methods of interrogation were initiated.

Depending on the circumstances, he told the intelligence agency, some coercive methods could be legal, but he advised against others, the officials said.

But the administration wants to give military judges the power to admit evidence obtained through coercive methods short of torture.

The novel constantly refers to different authorities that control individuals through subtle and coercive methods.

The coercive methods he outlines will not produce the desired results.

Most women unveiled because they succumbed to the Party's coercive methods.