Some American and other officials subscribe to a view held by a number of outside experts, that physical coercion is largely ineffective.

It can also mean the moral power of command, supported (when need be) by physical coercion, which the State exercises over its members.

"Then I guess I'll have to rely on physical coercion."

Sometimes the need for power extends to physical coercion, sometimes not.

We still don't know the extent of the physical coercion.

No physical coercion on the part of the husband is involved in the sale of a wife.

It does this through its monopoly of physical coercion.

Israel, of course, is not alone among its neighbors in using physical coercion to extract information.

They state that these conditions involve no need for physical coercion or violence.

I would prefer that you leave without the use of physical coercion.