Adjective
Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernel.
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As a model example we consider a unilateral semicoercive contact problem with nonmonotone friction and provide numerical results for benchmark tests..
Somewhat coercive; allowing only minimal free action.
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It may either compel agreement by force — the application of coercive or semicoercive techniques — or it may win agreement from them by free consent.
But nearly all the increase was attributable to bonds of state units, which were often placed in a semicoercive manner.
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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.
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?