Coercive

He persuaded Parliament to pass a set of acts that they called the Coercive Acts. The Americans called them the Intolerable Acts. Two of them transformed the government of Massachusetts and one of them came very close to abolishing town meetings.

Paul Revere's Ride 1994

The Parliament passed a series of laws called the Coercive Acts, and known in the colonies as the Intolerable Acts.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

The British were responding with repression, including the so-called Coercive Acts, which cost them more money and tied up more troops.

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – February – 24 2007

The British were responding with repression, including the so-called Coercive Acts, which cost them more money and tied up more troops.

Over My Shoulder #32: Mark Kurlansky on the Revolution before the Revolutionary War, from Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea 2007

Also known as the Coercive Acts; a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

Intolerable Acts 2002

The British Government was so mad about the signs of rebellion in the colonies that they passed tough new laws called Coercive Act But the colonists had a different name for it … ….

Recently Uploaded Slideshows ChrisRowland 2009

The Congress declared that the Coercive Acts were “not to be obeyed,” called for the formation of local militia units, and established a boycott of all British imports and an embargo on all exports to Britain.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

In response to the Boston Tea Party, in 1774 Parliament passed a series of Coercive Acts that closed the port of Boston, eliminated most forms of self-rule in Massachusetts, and allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonial buildings.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Coercive breaking of contracts by the government is simply unacceptable as a solution.

Wonk Room » Mortgage Modifications Hitting Roadblocks, As Cram-Down Bill Languishes In Senate 2009

Coercive interaction as the preferred method of social organization (Would you kill your mother to pave I-95?)

The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010