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.