The ultimate power of the president is the power to persuade, not to coerce.
The tests are intended to coerce firms into encouraging lower-paid employees to save more.
In other words, I viewed her confession as an attempt to coerce me into paying her more.
But to unleash an avalanche of charges to coerce a plea to a lesser-included offense is highly questionable.
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They also want to coerce people to give up their individual mobility for trains, even if this means longer commutes and less convenience.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
Five years ago, Apple somehow managed to coerce a world full of Wintel users to give its smartphone platform a chance.
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.
Jiau was able to coerce this information from Ng and pass it on to aggressive edge fund managers who traded on the information.
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It concluded that Savile was an "opportunistic individual who used his celebrity status as a powerful tool to coerce and control" his victims.
Is that prospect now being used to coerce testimony or settlements from midlevel executives who, while believing themselves innocent, don't dare risk a trial?
Obama is clearly betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still more concessions of land and principles.
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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"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.
The government may not use threats of loss to all Medicare Medicaid funds as a means to coerce states to adopt incremental changes under the law.
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These banks are able to privatize any profits from their risky ventures, yet through rent-seeking they have managed to coerce the public to pay for their failures.
Using financial penalties to coerce action is either the equivalent of a mandate or it is not, but the decision seems to take two opposite stances on this question.
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The White House knows it has no legal authority to demand such a corporate ATM card, but it is counting on public anger to coerce BP to go along.
First, the United States should not be party to European (especially French and German) efforts to coerce Japan to abandon its own, principled and conditioned position on providing aid to Russia.
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.
The U.S. says it's going to wait until a formal United Nations deadline expires at the end of this month before seeking any new measures to coerce or punish Iran over its disputed program.
Although Biden is just the latest senior US official to visit Israel to try to coerce the government not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, his visit is novel in one respect.
Pamela Mills claims that Darden and Dana Thompson, an investigator for the District Attorneys office, attempted to coerce her "to adopt and embrace certain fabrications as testimony" to be introduced as evidence in the Simpson case.
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.
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 surest sign trouble lies ahead for pensions is the recent effort by some of the largest actuarial and pension consulting firms, including Milliman, Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt, to coerce their pension clients to agree to limitation of liability (LOL) provisions in their contracts.
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Even though the penalty is in the Internal Revenue Code it is not tax, because Congress did not call it a tax and also the IRS does not have most of the means it uses to collect taxes available to coerce people who choose not to pay the penalty.
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Will the Sandinistas try to coerce the victorious President-elect Chamorro into accepting what would amount to a coalition government, with Sandinista officials in key positions such as those controlling (and staffing) the military, the secret police, the banks, educational institutions, and the media, communications and transportation sectors of the economy?
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.
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