The commission could force no new confessions, and had no coercive measures against anyone who lied.

Internment, like all coercive measures, failed.

Fixing me would require appallingly coercive measures.

This was followed by a number of other coercive measures described in the textbooks as pacific blockades.

This includes the use of coercive measures of suppression, censorship, the imprisonment or re-education through labor of dissidents and activists, and the creation of a vast domestic security apparatus.

But these types of coercive tactics are unacceptable — especially coming from an organisation that must surely have public good at its heart.

Coercive tactics, or coercive psychological systems, are defined on their website as unethical mind control such as brainwashing, thought reform, destructive persuasion and coercive persuasion.

Knight states that coercive tactics are unlikely to permanently lower the human population, citing the fact that humanity has survived catastrophic wars, famines, and viruses.

Furthermore, it used intimidation, boycotts and other coercive tactics to maintain its monopoly.

Those who are high in agreeableness are more likely to use constructive tactics when in conflict with others, whereas people low in agreeableness are more likely to use coercive tactics.