The tests are intended to coerce firms into encouraging lower-paid employees to save more.
But he used this bid to coerce Israel into making still more unreciprocated concessions.
In other words, I viewed her confession as an attempt to coerce me into paying her more.
Hard power involves the use of military force and economic sanctions to coerce opponents into accepting American demands.
They're also ready to remove barriers, such as the secret ballot, in order to coerce workers into joining unions.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
McHugh, who claimed he had a PhD, posed as a lawyer and accountant to coerce businesses into taking up loans with Gresham.
Aminuddin Chaudhry also denied in court that the police or military had tried to coerce him into testifying against his former colleagues.
"In an increasingly digital world, there is no way to coerce someone into paying for something if they want to take it for free, " says Doctorow.
Beyond providing aid to Hamas, the declared aim of the "Free Gaza" movement is to coerce Israel into providing Hamas with an outlet to the sea.
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Luckily for Bashar Assad, the IAEA is too busy trying to coerce Israel into agreeing to international inspections of its legal nuclear installations to pay any attention.
Specifically, he may be attacking Israel in a bid to coerce Netanyahu into agreeing to give Obama veto power over any Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear installations.
If Kazaryan had, in fact, managed to get compromising photos of these folks, he then attempted to use those pictures to coerce them into removing their clothes on camera.
Since the Netanyahu government took office three months ago, the Obama administration has placed inordinate pressure on Jerusalem in a bid to coerce it into making massive concessions to the Palestinians.
The industry of adventure gear is built on its ability to coerce you into buying something that, at best, is incrementally better than whatever might be in your closet at that moment.
To be brief, the picture concerns the exploits of three body builders ( Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie) who conspire to abduct a local businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and coerce him into signing over his assets.
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The Argentinean daily Clarin reported Saturday that Claudio Lifschitz, a former investigator of the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, claimed he was kidnapped and tortured by elements trying to coerce him into disclosing documents related to the case.
The aim of the Fayad plan is to coerce Israel into abandoning all the lands it took control over during the Six Day War, by implicitly threatening to deploy international forces throughout "Palestine" that will be charged with "protecting" the new Palestinian state from the IDF.
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As for angering the White House, the fact of the matter is that by pointing out that Abbas is not a credible leader, Israel will make it more difficult for Obama and his advisers to coerce Israel into making further concessions that will only further empower Hamas.
When combined with the administration's ultimatum demanding a moratorium on Jewish construction in Jerusalem and its threat to coerce Israel into accepting an Obama plan for Palestinian statehood that will imperil Israel's security, it becomes abundantly clear that there is no way to make this crisis go away.
In a very real sense, the Bush administration's willingness to be taken in by Erdogan paved the way for its decision in 2005 to pressure Israel to allow Hamas to participate in the Palestinian elections and to coerce Egypt into allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in its parliamentary poll.
Consequently, far from giving the sense that they seek a peace deal that will be acceptable to Israelis and Palestinians alike, they have convinced the Israelis and the Palestinians - as well as much of the Arab world - that the US intends to coerce Israel into accepting a settlement that sacrifices Israeli security and national needs on the altar of maximalist Palestinian ambitions.
Mr Bilici says the government's new tactic is to coerce Kurdish youths into becoming agents.
Moreover she asked a foreign power to coerce her government into setting that right aside.
The Ecuadorean government will use expropriation and extended operating contracts as the stick and carrot to try to coerce foreign firms into signing service contracts.
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Xiong that China should not miscalculate in thinking it could win an arms race with Taiwan, or that it could coerce the island into reunification.
Recall that North Korea's biggest nuclear advances came from 2001 to 2006 after the Bush administration scuttled the 1994 Agreed Framework and attempted to coerce North Korea into surrender or collapse.
But at the same time, it has effectively joined that war by legitimizing the anti-Israel council both by joining it, and by refusing to use its membership as leverage to coerce the council into abandoning its campaign against Israel.
Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech.
This attempt by Putin's predecessors in the Kremlin (he was doing his bit well down the food-chain, working the problem as a KGB agent in East Germany) to intimidate, seduce or coerce the allies into giving up their necessary response to the USSR's deployment of hundreds of deadly SS-20 missiles proved to be the high-water mark for Soviet Union.
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