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Rather than pretending that the privileged life has no conscience or consequences, they see the coercion that sustains it.

So was the collusive coercion that made grown men greet the master who inflicted it with hysterical applause.

A few unadorned sentences weave together several ideas: the sense of failed growth, the coercion that upholds the rule of efficiency, the passivity of the onlooker.

The settlements are foolish, and their continued expansion is a shameful act of colonial coercion that will meet the fate of all other colonial enterprises in history.

Mr. Obama has almost never talked about that side of the campaign, the short-of-war coercion that was part of what his aides once called the "light footprint strategy" of avoiding full-scale military action.

But it is not only avarice that motivates a wish for death; there is also the strain that caring for a sick family member brings, and the subtle coercion that can flourish under such pressurised circumstances.

Essentially, it proposed a federal felony charge for involuntary servitude, updating the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery to take into account the forms of debt peonage and psychological coercion that characterize modern slavery.

The Rev Cherrycoke, through whom the narrative is filtered, sees the Black Hole of Calcutta as a retaliatory metaphor of the 'continental Coercion' that is the British practice in India.

And I wouldn't be surprised if they are getting a bit of extra enjoyment because they are doing so by smiling and passing out money, rather than through the bravado and coercion that has often characterized Microsoft.

No one knows how widespread sexual blackmail is, but the case echoes other instances of sexual coercion that have surfaced in recent years, including agents criminally charged in Atlanta, Miami and Santa Ana, Calif.

Chris isn't alone: a recent study into anal sex among young heterosexual couples found a "climate of coercion"  that echoes Chris' experience: young boys wanted to copy what they saw in pornography, and pressured their partners to do so.

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