Sentence examples for improperly coerced from inspiring English sources

Though a court eventually ruled that the F.C.C. had improperly coerced the networks, relative caution continued to prevail with early evening programming for a few years.

A National Labor Relations Board official ordered a new unionization election yesterday at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, N.Y., after concluding that the hospital's management had improperly coerced workers to vote against unionizing.

had an absolute right to sell or exchange their shares with a third party at any price". Plaintiff's challenge both to the voting and merger agreement's deal protection mechanisms are more properly analyzed vis-a-vis the board's decision to recommend that the Company's public shareholders approve the merger and whether the shareholders' ensuing vote was improperly coerced.

Some of the judges appeared interested in a defense claim that a provision of the 1995 death penalty law improperly coerces jurors to vote for death.

[C21.] Shares of Coke Continue to Decline Lawyers for eight workers who have sued Coca-Cola for racial discrimination contended the company was improperly coercing black employees to sign away their right to be part of the lawsuit and any eventual judgment.

A day after the Coca-Cola Company said it would dismiss 6,000 employees worldwide, lawyers for eight workers who have sued the company for racial discrimination contended Coke was improperly coercing black employees to sign away their right to be part of the lawsuit and any eventual judgment.

Several contended that confessions used as evidence in their trials had been coerced or improperly obtained.

The state was improperly seeking to "coerce a church entity to finance private conduct that the church teaches is morally wrong," the organizations told the justices.

But Mr. Been said in his deposition that he did not think his vote was coerced, but that he did think Mr. Burnett improperly suggested that he vote against Ms. Stillman.

The judge ruled that he had been improperly interrogated without a parent or lawyer present, leading to a coerced confession.

He has contended that the company's management improperly withheld important information -- damaging to the promerger argument -- from shareholders and that the management bribed or coerced a large institutional investor to switch its vote in favor of the deal.