Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...travel, were by no means as captivated by the doctrine of the would-be reformer as were the savage tribes of the desert. Mecca surrendered, not to the religion or personal influence of the prophet, but to a superior armed force, and that only when by the complete coercion of the roving tribes, their commercial supremacy was no longer in danger...
...Something must be done for Ireland, (b) coercion is a failure; (c) agrarian reform impossible without home rule...
Your correspondent undertook to learn the sentiments of those undergraduates who are making specialties of history and political science, with the following results: Thirty-four circulars were sent out, to which twenty-five answers were returned. Of these twenty-five none could be found friendly to coercion, twenty favored "home rule," and five were opposed...
...Livingston Boyd Stedman, "The Coercion of Ireland." - Sir W. Vernon Harcourt...
...Livingston Boyd Stedman, "The Coercion of Ireland." - Sir W. Vernon Harcourt...