Sentence examples for coercion and fraud from inspiring English sources

The line into trafficking is crossed when coercion and fraud are used.

Orwell admired Gandhi but was forced to ask himself, "To what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering into politics, which of their nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud?" Nearly every saint who has entered the realm of politics fails — or, at the very least, fails to keep his sainthood under repair.

Orwell admired Gandhi but was forced to ask himself, "To what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering into politics, which of their nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud?" Nearly every saint who has entered the realm of politics fails or, at the very least, fails to keep his sainthood under repair.

By contrast with cases of coercion and fraud, there are at least some cases of alleged exploitation in which B's consent is not defective in either of these ways.

First, on one plausible reading of the Kantian maxim, one treats another as a mere means only when one treats "him in a way to which he could not possibly consent," as in cases of coercion and fraud, where A seeks to undermine B's capacity as an autonomous decision-maker.

But even if we refer to such transactions as nonconsensual, we would still have to contrast the cases that are nonconsensual because of coercion or fraud and those that are allegedly nonconsensual in other ways.

For homo economicus, it makes no difference what forces shape one's desires provided they do not result from coercion or fraud, and one's ties to other people are to be factored into one's calculations and planning along with the rest of one's desires.

We can similarly distinguish between nonconsensual exploitation, where the exploited party does not give voluntary (or valid) consent, say because of coercion or fraud, and consensual exploitation, where it appears that the exploited party has given voluntary and appropriately informed consent to the transaction.

Park's ally Choi Soon-sil and one of the president's former aides were arrested earlier this month on charges of fraud, coercion and abuse of power.

But, so long as people are willing to pay the high prices (and no coercion or fraud is involved), both parties are better off with the transaction than without it.

The government maintains this freedom by making and enforcing rules against coercion, fraud, theft and other crimes.