Safeguarding citizens' lives and wielding coercive authority are unique state responsibilities.

Regardless, to these anarchists the economic preferences are considered to be of "secondary importance" to abolishing all coercive authority, with free experimentation the one rule of a free society.

The term aan s'aatí is now used to refer to an elected city mayor in Tlingit, although the traditional position was not elected and did not imply some coercive authority over the residents.

These men considered themselves anarchists because they were working for the long-term abolition of capitalism, the state, and coercive authority in general.

Justice Brennan said a state may not place its "prestige, coercive authority or resources behind a single religious faith or behind religious belief in general."

There was no coercive federal authority over these matters, or over any matters; the sovereignty of each of the thirteen federated units was complete.

The latter is, of course, a justifiable action, but here again the only coercive authority is that of the secular state.

Even when there is no legal or coercive authority to enforce these community decisions, people tend to adhere to them, due to a desire to be held in esteem by the community.

It's true that we may have some differences of opinion upon the proper use of the coercive authority of your office.

The chief of the Basseri Tribe rules through coercive authority.