Word: coercion
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Some conservatives of the period sought to prove that the liberal idea of society was unrealistic, he asserted. Their leaders, Hartz said, men such as Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, pointed to the permanent character of social coercion and urged a return to the older conservative concepts. But, he continued, the ideals which the liberals had initiated were irradically set in public opinion...
...Khrushchev line is the one he is stuck with: more consumer goods, less coercion of the peasants, a pledge of tolerance for different varieties of Communism in the satellites. He might intend to deliver on none of these promises, but all of them are an implied recognition of what his Communist subjects want (even if they have no vote), and he might yet be compelled by circumstances to deliver more than he intends...
...takes exception to the Church shepherding the faithful, but to attempt to regulate by economic coercion what the remainder of the population can see and desires to see is a violation of a fundamental freedom. Their stand also seems to imply that the faithful would fail to take the Church's admonitions seriously, and that temptation must be removed from their path...
...more palatable means of recognizing the problem is the suggestion of offering additional aid to those school systems which have integrated, or are in the process. Such a bonus could hardly be considered financial coercion, because it merely accounts for the extra costs in the process of integration...
...peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion to break what is left of the Workers' Councils...