Sentence examples for coercive atmosphere from inspiring English sources
Mr. Bickle denied that there was a coercive atmosphere.
Of course, a coercive atmosphere does not absolve the guilty or invalidate their confessions.
Much as the court wisely concluded 34 years ago, the Miranda warnings are an important safeguard for protecting the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination in the coercive atmosphere of police questioning.
A federal appeals court held that the search was unconstitutional because in the cramped and "coercive" atmosphere of the bus, with two officers positioned front and back and a third looming over the seated passengers, the men would not have felt able to withhold their consent unless instructed that they were free to do so.
"It's a very coercive atmosphere".
While this has increased the rates of HIV testing and counselling, it has also led to missed opportunities for prevention messages and created a coercive atmosphere around testing in some settings [ 44, 46].
The rest of the piece describes the psychological and theological convolutions through which a group of college students isolated themselves in the spiritually coercive and sexually charged atmosphere of Tyler's control.
In such a situation, participants would be able to evaluate each other's assertions solely on the basis of reason and evidence in an atmosphere completely free of any nonrational "coercive" influences, including both physical and psychological coercion.
But this concept of a freely chosen and "knowing waiver" of one's rights contains a paradox: If the court was correct that the atmosphere of the interrogation room is inherently coercive, then how can the choice to waive those rights in that very setting ever really be free?
I think that just coming in to a psychiatric emergency ward creates a number of incentives for coercive measures that would not exist in a calmer and friendlier atmosphere, where the patients know the staff.
