With a strong effort of self-coercion she banished all delightful recollections as she heard Bruce come up in the lift.

He frankly explained that what Vermonters really wanted was 'property not liberty' and added that they would stand no coercion from the American government.

Lord Minto heard the news that Lord Grey had resigned owing to Lord Althorp's refusal to agree to the Irish Coercion Bill.

Lord Bessborough and Lansdowne are too much inclined to coercion, and I fear we shall not agree.

Nothing that I read in the speeches in favour of the Coercion Bill convinced me that it would do the slightest good....

On this plan, it will operate by its own strength, not by the power of coercion, which renders even truth disagreeable and repulsive; the children will adopt it from choice in preference to error, and it will be firmly established in their minds.

It is the combination of amusement with instruction, which, in my opinion, renders the system so successful; and unimportant or improper even as it may appear to some, is of more real service in the management of young children, than all the methods of restraint and coercion, which have been hitherto but too generally pursued.

Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent, lest it might unjustly be regarded as a menace of military coercion, and thus furnish, if not a provocation, at least a pretext for an outbreak on the part of South Carolina.

Secession, Coercion, and Civil War.

I do not think it can be said he sent him back, for no coercion was made use of.

On almost every plantation at the South you may find one or more individuals, whose look and air show that they have preserved their self-respect as men;that with them the power of the tyrant ends with the coercion of the bodythat the soul is free, and the inner man retaining the original uprightness of the image of God.

She liked neither diplomacy nor coercion.

Opposition would soon compel such a manifestly useful change; but, independent of all coercion, I believe those companies that strive the most to meet the reasonable demands of the public will always show the best balance-sheet at the end of the year.

These early proceedings of Kidd effectually dispose of the plea that his intentions were at first honest, and that he only yielded to the coercion of his crew in taking to piracy, after reaching the Indian seas.

Thus did Europe begin the coercion of African assistance in the conquest of the American wilderness.

But in a consolidated nation of diverse and conflicting interests it would be likely on occasion to assert its own will and resist unitedly anything savoring of coercion.

But, young and high-spirited, she struggled against the isolation of soul to which she was condemned; and probably resented with more bitterness the coercion to which she was subjected by the iron rule of her royal mother-in-law than even the coldness of the husband to whom she had been prepared to give up her whole heart.

I demurred, and was anathematized as ungrateful and altogether corrupt, that I would not go back to M'Swat, who was so good as to lend my father money out of pure friendship; but for once in my life I could not be made submit by either coercion or persuasion.

Only by coercion was he finally induced to prosecute.

" A perusal of these laws shows that they are immensely inferior to the Roman law, which not only gave the wife full control of her property, but protected her from coercion and bullying on the part of the husband.

The Government was publicly committed to the fatal doctrine of non-coercion, and was secretly pursuing the equally fatal policy of concession.

On July 6, 1827, a month after Athens surrendered, the three powers concluded a treaty for the pacification of Greece, in which they bound over both belligerent parties to accept an armistice under pain of military coercion.

The reign closed amid turbulence and humiliationsmassacre and bombardment at Jidda, massacre and Franco-British coercion in Syriafrom all of which the sultan took refuge with women and wine, to meet in 1861 a drunkard's end.

She might release her right of dower in lands of her husband, but only when examined separately she acknowledged that the conveyance or release was not secured by his influence or coercion.

The best that could be done was to have Conger frame a counter-declaration that her confession had been signed under a misapprehensionhad been obtained by coercion, over-persuasion, and so forth.