The means of persuasion by using force or money, on the other hand, is called hard power.

At the moment, hard power has the upper hand.

Nature is slow to begin, but once she does, her works have their own hard power.

Its simplest form, hard power, is based on force.

As a concept, it can be difficult to distinguish between soft power from hard power.

Both groups employ tools of hard power in their offensives.

There may be some power there, although twisted, and hard to access.

The compromise does not provide for hard powers of intervention by the Commission on spectrum matters.

Is that hard power with a human face?

"There comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work - where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works."