In 2010, the government began a coerced sale of shares in the Roghun enterprise to its population, ultimately raising over $180 million before stopping under intense criticism from international donors, but the dam is likely to cost billions of dollars.
Lawyers with the government restitution unit in Carmen de Bolívar, where Ms. Martelo and her husband now live, said they were investigating several claims involving Mr. Vélez and other buyers to see if they represented coerced land sales.
According to a 2000 article in the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of International Economic Law, the U.S. government has estimated that the Nazis seized or coerced the sale of an astounding one-fifth of all Western art then in existence over 250,000 art works.
The General Court of Plymouth began using military force to coerce the sale of Wampanoag land to the settlers of the town.
He also insisted Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool's owner, would not be coerced into a sale, as was the case with Luis Suárez in 2013.
Liverpool have Sterling under contract until 2017 and showed they will not be coerced into a sale during the stand-off with Luis Suárez in 2013, although there is a marked contrast in the players' importance to the team and future transfer value.
As UC San Diego professor and North Korea observer Stephen Haggard told Businessweek, "Everyone in the North Korea watchers community is scratching their heads about this," especially since Cohen last year hosted North Korean defectors at a conference in LA where they "gave harrowing accounts of privation and coerced criminal activity including drug sales".
It cited the use of Indian law to favour the domestic drugs industry over American patent-holders, and policies in IT, clean technology and other industries that block sales of American products and coerce the transfer of technology.Beyond these grouses is a second, broader concern: that Indian economic reform, and, with it, rapid growth, have run into the sand (see article).
On this view, A does not coerce B in the cases involving organ sales or commercial surrogacy, because A does not propose to worsen B's situation if B rejects A's proposal.
In 1990 the ACLU defended Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, whose conviction was tainted by coerced testimonya violation of his fifth amendment rightsduring the Iran Contra affair, where Oliver North was involved in illegal weapons sales to Iran in order to illegally fund the Contra guerillas.
