coercive pressure

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• Coercive Diplomacy — or forceful persuasion is the attempt to get a target, a state, a group (or groups) within a state, or a nonstate actor to change its objectionable behavior through either the threat to use force or the actual use of limited force. [1] This term… …   Wikipedia

• Coercive persuasion — comprises social influences capable of producing substantial behavior, attitude and ideology change through the use of coercive tactics and persuasion, via interpersonal and group based influences.The term was coined by Edgar Scheinref|Schein1 in …   Wikipedia

• coercive — adjective Displaying a tendency or intent to coerce. The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development… …   Wiktionary

• high-pressure — adjective 1) high pressure sales tactics Syn: forceful, insistent, persistent, pushy; intensive, high powered, aggressive, coercive, compelling, not taking no for an answer 2) a high pressure job Syn: demanding …   Thesaurus of popular words

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• secondary boycott — A boycott applied with the purpose of bringing an alleged offender to terms by refusing to have any business relations with persons dealing with such offender, until he has yielded to the demand for terms. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 463; 36 Am J1st… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Lee v. Weisman — SCOTUSCase Litigants=Lee v. Weisman ArgueDate=November 6 ArgueYear=1991 DecideDate=June 24 DecideYear=1992 FullName=Robert E. Lee, Individually and as Principal of Nathan Bishop Middle School, et al., Petitioners v. Daniel Weisman etc. USVol=505… …   Wikipedia

• secondary — In English practice, an officer of the courts of king s bench and common pleas; so called because he was second or next to the chief officer. In the king s bench he was called Master of the King s Bench Office, and was a deputy of the… …   Black's law dictionary

• drive — I. verb (drove; driven; driving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drīfan; akin to Old High German trīban to drive Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to frighten or prod (as game or cattle) into moving in a desired… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• screw — skruː n. metal fastener with a spiral grooved shaft; act of twisting or rotating; propeller; coercive pressure; sexual intercourse (Slang); miser, scrooge; old worn out horse; salary, wages (British Slang); prison guard, warden v. attach with a… …   English contemporary dictionary

• screwed — screw·ed || skruːd adj. attached with a screw; drunk, intoxicated (British Slang); contorted, twisted; cheated, deceived, gypped (Slang) skruː n. metal fastener with a spiral grooved shaft; act of twisting or rotating; propeller; coercive… …   English contemporary dictionary