Meanings of coercive power in English

But without coercive power, resolutions of Congress were idle as the wind.

The Crown used its superior coercive power to enforce the legal decisions of other courts.

He had been under the coercive power of a demon; a mysterious spell had forced him-

The church court had little coercive power and its punishments were restricted to penance or excommunication.

Mr. Tarblecko's abrupt appearance today, and his possession of a coercive power that no human being on Earth had.

He saw in the use of the rider a dangerous assertion of coercive power on the part of Congress.

If that coercive power were entirely taken away, they would probably soon break out into open violence and bloodshed.

Those who obtained leadership positions gained status, but such leaders governed by persuasion and influence; they had no coercive power.

He was willing to place implicit faith in the coercive power of self-interest operating upon the men lately in rebellion.

Their authority is no more than nominal, being without that coercive power necessary to make themselves feared and implicitly obeyed.

Democracy ultimately depends, not on the coercive power of the State, but on public confidence, according to Ms Cherie Booth QC.

He saw plainly the folly of trying to transform the character of the state solely by the coercive power of law.

But such is the coercive power of gold, albeit in the abstract, that this tenuous vision of wealth had its fascination.

The nobility and the commonalty alike had been disciplined into obedience with a rigour that speaks volumes for Cromwell's coercive power.

Those remarks of Sir William Hunter afford an insight into the coercive power exercised by the caste system on the Indian population.

They used all their coercive power to achieve that objective at the expense of dealing with the most injurious crisis that is devastating nations everywhere.