Coercion in example sentence

The term “soft power” – the ability to affect others by attraction and persuasion rather than the hard power of coercion and payment – is sometimes used to describe any exercise of power that does not involve the use of force.

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

And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.

We've seen a coercion strategy in which sexual structures are used in a forceful way to basically make a female have sex.

Now unfortunately, in the animal kingdom, it's the coercion strategy that we see time and time again.

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