instrument of coercion

Trade embargoes have often proved feeble instruments of coercion.

Tyco hopes those reasons may soon include a Saturday morning television show, the toy industry's principal instrument of coercion in dealing with children.

"Socialism needs an instrument of coercion - the market," said Mr. Crnobrnja.

The agreement removes the threat of default and lowers the prospect of using the debt limit as an instrument of coercion.

Castor oil was used as an instrument of coercion by the paramilitary Blackshirts under the regime of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

One is the specter that the device could all too easily become an instrument of coercion whose use is forced on poor women, criminals or women with AIDS.

What that means is that they have a pool of money that they can use to monopolize all the instruments of coercion - the army, police and intelligence services.

Language, as powerful as it is, can never be controlled and can just as easily be used as an instrument of coercion as an instrument of resistance.

During the Red Terror campaign of 1977-78, the power of the kebeles was virtually unrestricted, and the defense squads emerged as the regime's chief instruments of coercion within the capital.

In the end, this was a battle of competing legitimacy of the executive and the legislature, won by the side that could muster the support of the ultimate instruments of coercion.

Vladimir Lenin accepted the Marxist conception of the law and the state as instruments of coercion in the hands of the bourgeoisie and postulated the creation of popular, informal tribunals to administer revolutionary justice.

The Cenobites have no reservations about the circumstances of the person who summons them; but they can distinguish whether the one who physically opened the box is the summoner or merely a tool or an instrument of coercion.

The use of shugo lords to attack one of their own colleagues in the 1366 points to the growing authority of the shogun, vis-a-vis the shugo lords, and the emergence of an effective instrument of coercion.

Revaner had used his magic to coerce women who didn't cooperate with him-which was another violation of secular law, twice over; first for using coercion inside the Faire boundaries, and secondly for using magic as the instrument of coercion.

Aid of Lawmakers Cited While the suits charge that Insurance Services became an "instrument of coercion" by making the claims-made form an industry standard, a spokesman said the organization had acted with the full cooperation of lawmakers in all 50 states.