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Well, I’m not going to coerce you, or to control your actions in any way, but I wish you to have nothing to do with that man, or with his son.
Such may, or may not, be true of this particular rising; but happily for English liberty there has never existed in this country any police force at the disposal of the central government, powerful enough to coerce the nation at large.
But the saying is not true if any suggestion of an offensive alliance between constabulary and soldiery is intended; nor is it true if it is meant to give the impression that there is a potentiality of physical force behind the policeman, which, under any circumstances whatever, could be exerted to coerce the nation at large.
It is called "The Busiest Shopping Day of the Year" and is the one where they send lifestyle reporters to the local malls to coerce unsuspecting randomly selected shoppers into speaking the exact same seasonal cliches that the people came up with the last time they did the report.
Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and right: B ribing poor women and girls to implant Norplant would coerce them into not having children, thus violating their rights to reproductive choice, like the one-child-per-family policy and coerced abortions in China.
They had to coerce and intimidate many of their fellow Hutu to go along with them--thousands of Hutu were also slaughtered in the genocide for failing to join in.
The government cannot coerce religious observance without, as John Locke argued in his first Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), corrupting the act of faith into an empty gesture of external compliance.
Every intelligent man and woman knows, however, that this is a myth maintained to frighten and coerce the foolish.
So threatening had become the general aspect of affairs, that the king thought it prudent to send his son, Ra-men-khepr or Men-khepr-ra, the existing high-priest of the Temple of Ammon at Thebes, from Tanis to the southern capital, in order that he should make himself acquainted with the secret strength, and with the designs of the disaffected, and see whether he could not either persuade or coerce them.
Since the publication of our article on the Brazilian Treaty, we have received several letters from individuals who, agreeing with us entirely in the free-trade view of the question, nevertheless are at variance with us as to the commercial policy which we should pursue towards that country, in order to coerce them into our views regarding slavery.
As far as it can be collected, the argument relied upon by this party appears to be, that having once abolished slavery in our own dominions we ought to interdict the importation of articles produced by slave labour in other countries, in order to coerce them, for the sake of their trade with us, to follow our example.
If we would coerce the Brazilians by not buying from them, it necessarily involves the duty of not selling to them; for if we sell, we supply them with all the means of conducting their slave labour; we supply the implements of labour, or the materials from which they are made; we supply clothing for themselves and their slaves; we supply part of their foods and most of their luxuries; the wines and the spirits in which the slave-owner indulges; and we even supply the very materials of which the implements of slave punishment or coercion are made;-and thus participate much more directly in the profits of slavery than by admitting their produce into this country.
But now were it otherwise:-have the professors of these opinions ever considered the huge responsibility which they arrogate to themselves by such a course? Let these men remember that, by seeking to coerce the slave-labour producer in distant countries, they inflict a severe punishment on the millions of hard-working, ill-fed consumers among their fellow countrymen; but they seem always to overlook the fact, that there is a consumer to consider as well as a producer;-and that this consumer is their own countryman, their own neighbour, whose condition it is their first duty to consult and watch;-duty as well as charity ought to be first exercised at home.
"Maybe I do love a poor girl," said Nicholas to himself.
"Am I to sacrifice my feelings and my honor for money? I wonder how Mamma could speak so to me.
Because Sonya is poor I must not love her," he thought, "must not respond to her faithful, devoted love? Yet I should certainly be happier with her than with some doll-like Julie.
I can always sacrifice my feelings for my family's welfare," he said to himself, "but I can't coerce my feelings.
If I love Sonya, that feeling is for me stronger and higher than all else.
" We can no longer coerce a break, but must lead and inspire if we would avoid arrest.
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