adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
power
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A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.
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Once dissociated from coercive power , it will witness a renewal of spirituality.
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The husband had coercive powers to govern most aspects of a woman's life, particularly through his control of money.
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These forms of power are commonly known as reward and coercive power respectively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The police may have used coercive tactics to get confessions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.
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Direct Actions 6.1 Ecological expropriation comes down to the coercive transfer of nonpublic land to public owners in the name of conservation.
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Non-cooperation and civil disobedience, as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in this sense.
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Petitioner contends that the coercive nature of this program is evident from the degree of success it has achieved.
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The elite and class approaches are based on a coercive view of society.
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This exercise of economic power could be coercive , in the sense that A might prevent B from enjoying certain economic benefits.