In law, coercion is codified as a duress crime.

From Émile Durkheim, The Rules of the Sociological Method, (Edited by Steven Lukes translated by W.D.

Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.

The government then uses its coercive power to keep a lid on price growth.

Johnson was renowned for his domineering, sometimes abrasive, personality and the Johnson treatment his aggressive coercion of powerful politicians in order to advance legislation.

Their word was law, right, humble and true they teach, and opposed to coercion from whomever it might come.

According to anarcho primitivism, the shift from hunter gatherer to agricultural subsistence gave rise to social stratification, coercion, alienation, and population growth.

You can do it with threats of coercion, sticks, you can do it with payments, carrots, or you can do it by getting others to want what you want.

Coercion is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force.

Nabokov, in all his fiction, writes with incomparable penetration about delusion and coercion, about cruelty and lies, he says.

That is why Japan must not yield to the Chinese government s daily exercises in coercion around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

Social anarchism Social anarchism calls for a system with common ownership of means of production and democratic control of all organisations, without any government authority or coercion.

But Abe and several of his colleagues have gone on the record over the years including during Abe s first term as Prime Minister in 2006 2007 denying that coercion was involved.

And that ability to get others to want what you want, to get the outcomes you want without coercion or payment, is what I call soft power.

And, as a rule, such states then try to safeguard their interests by imposing their predominance (hegemony), which is a recipe for dangerous conflict if based on coercion rather than cooperation.

They further say that to maintain it, coercion, land evictions, forced labor, cultural destruction, assimilation, ecological devastation, and global trade are accepted as necessary, even benign.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

The issue has called RSF's attention, and the ABI has released a note describing IURD's reaction as an 'unprecedented coercive campaign in Brazilian media history'.

Last week in Goiania, search and seizure warrants were already used as a means of curtailing the right to protest and as a tactic of coercion against the people who wish to express their outrage over the FIFA event.

Under the leadership of the Dublin born Sir Edward Carson of the Irish Unionist Party and the northerner Sir James Craig of the Ulster Unionist Party, unionists became strongly militant in order to oppose the Coercion of Ulster .

Sexual violence is any sexual act or attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, unwanted sexual comments or advances, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, regardless of the relationship to the victim.

It is too late now for non military tools of coercion to have much effect, although Security Council threats of International Criminal Court prosecution for atrocity crimes including any use of chemical weapons must remain on the table .

Instead of trying to seek mutual understanding of the past, Abe and his team of nationalist historians have promoted a revisionist view of the Second World War which denies the coercion of the so called comfort women and downplays the conscripted labor of 600,000 Koreans under brutal conditions.

Since the state controls the means of coercion, and given the dependence of many groups in civil society on the state for achieving any goals they may espouse, state personnel can to some extent impose their own preferences on civil society.

Often, but not always, the perpetrator is in a position of power or authority over the victim (due to differences in age, or social, political, educational or employment relationships) or expecting to receive such power or authority in form of promotion.

Proudhon opposed government privilege that protects capitalist, banking and land interests, and the accumulation or acquisition of property (and any form of coercion that led to it) which he believed hampers competition and keeps wealth in the hands of the few.

In this and other matters, Turkey strives to act as a virtuous power, which requires us to align our national interests with values such as justice, democracy, and human dignity, and to achieve our foreign policy goals through mutual cooperation rather than coercion.

Campaigns of unilateral economic encouragement under the Generalized System of Preferences and coercion under Section 301 of the Trade Act played an important role in defeating competing policy positions that were favored by developing countries, most notably Korea and Brazil, but also including Thailand, India and Caribbean Basin states.

For a few hours on October 27, 2011, indigenous peoples from the Xingu region occupied the construction site of the Belo Monte dam following the global movement of taking the streets against financial slavery, corruption and other forms of capitalist coercion which started on October 15. OccupyBeloMonte

It can predict complex negotiations or situations involving coercion that is in essence everything that has to do with politics, much of what has to do with business, but sorry, if you're looking to speculate in the stock market, I don't predict stock markets OK, it's not going up any time really soon.