coercive force
noun
: the opposing magnetic intensity that must be applied to a magnetized material to remove the residual magnetism
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To secure oil in the twentieth century, the United States relied on coercive force, destabilizing oil-producing regions and saddling itself with strategic, economic, and political burdens.
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Morgan D. Bazilian, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2023
These myths do nothing but protect the power of a fast-regrouping Christian civic machine looking to install a certain vision of Christian morality through coercive force.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
But their promise of community masks a whole other layer of control — an organizing, siphoning, coercive force with its own private purposes.
—Carina Chocano, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
More broadly, libertarians fail to grapple with the reality that, for most individuals in an advanced society, the most coercive force in day-to-day life isn’t the state, but the boss.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
But by turning the state’s secret and coercive forces actively outward, the Bolsheviks invented something new under the sun for Russia.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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Morgan D. Bazilian, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2023
These myths do nothing but protect the power of a fast-regrouping Christian civic machine looking to install a certain vision of Christian morality through coercive force.
—TIME, 5 Jan. 2024
But their promise of community masks a whole other layer of control — an organizing, siphoning, coercive force with its own private purposes.
—Carina Chocano, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
More broadly, libertarians fail to grapple with the reality that, for most individuals in an advanced society, the most coercive force in day-to-day life isn’t the state, but the boss.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Feb. 2018
But by turning the state’s secret and coercive forces actively outward, the Bolsheviks invented something new under the sun for Russia.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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