Sentence examples for implied coercion from inspiring English sources

The organisation said the people its researchers interviewed reported that "young people are being targeted by adult dealers to deal cannabis on their behalf, usually for money, or to get cannabis to smoke, with explicit or implied coercion involved".

But, on this record, we have nothing to do with any question of actual or implied coercion or duress, such as might overcome the will of the employee by means unlawful without the act.

We need not consider whether it is possible for a wife, in the absence of her husband, thus to waive his constitutional rights, for it is perfectly clear that under the implied coercion here presented, no such waiver was intended or effected.

In a letter last week, officials from 35 leading education colleges and graduate schools — including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan State and Vanderbilt — denounced an "implied coercion" if they do not cooperate with the ratings.

It implies coercion toward a notion of the good.

But he emphasized that he wanted such restructuring to be voluntary, adding that he did not like the word restructure because it seemed to imply coercion.

The word "whip" implies coercion and brings to mind the dark, backroom persuasions of Tom DeLay, known as the Hammer (who, truthfully, was never that much of a knuckle-breaker, though apparently he loved having that reputation).

The Secretary makes a fair point, I think, in emphasizing the difference between persuasion and coercion — although as anyone working in the U.S. State Department well knows, there are gradations between the two, and we might very well obtain a result by "persuading" a result by implying coercion in the alternative.

Power does not necessarily imply coercion or use of force; it may involve any degree of compulsion, from the gentlest suggestion to absolute domination (Beier and Stern 1969).

This is a view found not in Aristotle but in earlier Latin writers, for example Seneca (see §3), and the contradiction with Augustine is merely verbal for Augustine dominium implies coercion, for Thomas its sense is broader.

Unlike 'sexual violence', which implies coercion through physical means, 'forced sex' can include sex that is unwanted but experienced because of psychological or other forms of non-physical coercion.