Sentence examples for coerced upon from inspiring English sources
In Rothbard's view of parenthood, "the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights".
"The Police Department, without being coerced or having reforms thrust upon them, based on their own internal reviews got to a place where they changed some procedures and reformed some others," said Daniel S. Connolly, a city lawyer involved in the Louima case.
Strauss-Kahn and Herman Cain took voluntary actions obviously influenced, coerced and intimidated by the media attacks upon them.
The resultant impasse coerced the owners, in 1946, to confer upon Bell the sole discretion in developing the league's schedule.
The practice of coerced detoxification from opiate maintenance was commonplace upon reception into prison leading to a class action brought against the Home Office for negligent drug treatment provision whilst in prison [ 4].
Pregnant women are warned – by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) and the media – that childbirth is highly medicalised in the UK; that epidurals will be foisted upon them; and that they may well be coerced into having unnecessary interventions.
After all, Japan came close to invading their country during the war; Australian prisoners-of-war were brutally treated in Japanese camps; and only a couple of weeks ago Mr Abe had brought ignominy upon himself by denying that foreign "comfort women" had been coerced into working in wartime military brothels.
She says she filed a claim alleging that she was coerced into signing a severance agreement, saying that she signed it immediately upon receiving it.
Upon reinvestigation, prosecutors found that Simon's confession had been coerced.
The few arrests made were often of the Tarahumara who had been coerced into cultivating drug crops; moreover, the spraying of herbicide to destroy the illicit crops damaged plants and the water supply that the Indians relied upon for survival.
