A Coercion Act was an Act of Parliament that gave a legal basis for increased state powers to suppress popular discontent and disorder. The label was...

Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.[need quotation...

Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, (44 & 45 Vict. c. 4) also called the Coercion Act, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

Chief Secretary of Ireland. Balfour secured a tough Irish Coercion Act or Perpetual Crimes Act (1887), aimed at the prevention of boycotting, intimidation...

would soon be suppressed. Despite close to 1000 interned under the 1881 Coercion Act for suspected membership. With the reduction in the rate of homelessness...

state. Charles Stewart Parnell described William Ewart Gladstone's Irish Coercion Act as terrorism in his "no-Rent manifesto" in 1881, during the Irish Land...

Sexual coercion among animals is the use of violence, threats, harassment, and other tactics to help them forcefully copulate. Such behavior has been compared...

limited duration) or the Jubilee Coercion Act (being passed in the year of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria). The act empowered the Lord Lieutenant of...

War. The government had to pass a Coercion Act as early as 1881 (the Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881) because of the increase in...

the Act and were imprisoned in October 1881 in Kilmainham Jail, together with other prominent members of the League, under the Irish Coercion Act. While...