"semicoercive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, Charles O. Lerche, Foreign Policy of the American People, page 17:",
          "text": "It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.",
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          "ref": "1975, Vinod Dubey, Yugoslavia, Development with Decentralization, →ISBN:",
          "text": "But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.",
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          "ref": "1976, Douglas N. Ross, The Challenge of overpopulation and food shortages:",
          "text": "They have also taken a number of initiatives which are coercive, or semicoercive, measures as far as denying ration books for more than a certain number of children.",
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          "ref": "1978, Juan José Linz, The breakdown of democratic regimes:",
          "text": "The question is, then, what causes a regime to move beyond its functional range to become a disrupted or semicoercive regime that ends in repudiation by large or critical segments of the population?",
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