Smart power is the ability to combine the hard power of coercion or payment with the soft power of attraction into a successful strategy.
It has been proven that drugs will not be stopped though coercion.
It's not empowerment and freedom -- it's coercion and conformity and despair.
Such coercion can be routine in some mines.
It protects employees from union violence and coercion.
Achieving the minimal benefits that could result from such crowding would require extreme government coercion, which would not be tolerated in a free society.
That's why it's safer to cover their coercion under a layer of deniability -- we're just having a cup of tea.
Once the deal has gone through, we'll be out of peaceful coercion options that could allow us to enforce a deal.
There is no evidence of coercion or further distribution of the images anywhere beyond the two teenagers' phones.
That's a formula for misery and, yes, coercion.
The problem is that the bill's definition of "coercion" is troublingly vague and of course, utterly one-sided.
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