A "coercer-focused" account seeks to determine what is special about coercive actions, rather than trying to distinguish coerced from non-coerced actions.
While this is certainly a plausible approach for distinguishing coerced from uncoerced acts, it puts the focus on how the coercee perceives her situation; it is only via this reflection that it takes into account how the coercer is able to create this perception.
"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status... .. "This rule shall not be applied to the US naval base at the tip of Cuba, which the US coerced from Cuba in 1903.
Mr. Rodriguez's lawyer, Steven J. Chaikin, maintained during the trial that the later statements had been coerced from Mr. Rodriguez by an aggressive detective.
Those "orphans" might have been bought from impoverished parents, coerced from loving families or simply rented for the night.
German authorities say Cornelius Gurlitt, now 80, kept hundreds of works — mostly graphics — that were confiscated under the Nazis or whose sale was coerced from desperate owners trying to raise cash or obtain exit documents out of the country.
Dance is what remains of the spirit of resistance, and of an essence of individuality beyond the autobiographical spiels that are coerced from Ms. Murphy and Mr. O'Conor's characters.
But the fact that evidence brutally coerced from detainees is inadmissible in our courts is not a weakness of our existing justice system.
"The question is whether the Hemingway house was 'donated' by Mary, or coerced from her, or extracted from her via diplomacy.
According to human rights groups, people taken into custody by such intelligence units were often drugged and then thrown into the sea from airplanes after the last bit of useful information had been coerced from them through torture.
