If health care professionals believe individuals are making autonomous choices, yet external pressures are implicitly shaping these decisions, the task of determining whether an individual is being coerced to change a trait becomes challenging and worthy of attention from an ethics standpoint.
The college is opposed to a change in the law to permit assisted dying because it would be impossible to implement without eliminating the possibility that patients may be in some way coerced into the decision to die".
If a "friend" tries to coerce you to change your mind and you're quite adamant that you still want to leave, this person is not a true friend.
What does it mean to coerce a spouse into sex?
TRYING to coerce a group of sovereign states to follow common rules is ultimately doomed.
At worst, the Soviets might subvert or coerce a disarmed Germany into alignment with Moscow.
The bomb threat was widely condemned by area churches and the Arlington congregation released a statement saying it would not be intimidated, harassed, or coerced to change the way it practiced religion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to prepare retaliatory measures against the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union to coerce Russia to change its policies in Ukraine.
The EU has struggled to find ways to pressure these central European nations to fall in line with the bloc's policymakers in Brussels, as threats of sanctions or even removing of voting rights have failed to coerce them to change their tack.
We are seeing a partial but important shift from directed and even coerced land-use change to drive larger social and political projects, to land-use change now being driven by larger political economic forces.
