military coercion

In all the border states there was a wide consensus against military coercion of the Confederacy.

Another is economic or military coercion.

His policies with the native Africans, which he called the "Leutwein System", was a mixture of diplomacy and military coercion.

When Abu'l-Aswar reminded him of the chrysobull and refused to surrender his gains, the Emperor resorted to military coercion.

Chinese inclusion in the sphere of British informal empire was unwilling, and was maintained by the use of direct military coercion - the Opium Wars - and through the exertion of great diplomatic pressure.

The same political dynamics continued through the years, with the Soviet Union pressing and maneuvering Hungarian politics through the Hungarian Communist Party, intervening whenever it needed to, through military coercion and covert operations.

These experts cite as evidence of China's hostility its missile tests and war games near Taiwan in 1995 and 1996; in response, American aircraft carriers were dispatched to deliver a pointed message to Beijing that military coercion would not be tolerated.

The British forces under the Duke of Cumberland had been brutal in putting down any hint of Jacobite resistance among Highlanders, and the Act can be seen as Parliament asserting the supremacy of the Civil Courts over unconstitutional military coercion.

They desired to restore Korea's independent political sovereignty after Japan invaded the weakened and partially modernized Korean Empire, which was the result of Japan's political maneuvers to invade Korea by manipulating the international community to legitimize a false annexation treaty signed under military coercion.

The United States Department of Defense reported that in Taiwan, "proponents of strikes against the mainland apparently hope that merely presenting credible threats to China's urban population or high-value targets, such as the Three Gorges Dam, will deter Chinese military coercion."