At some point, the states argue, financial inducement turns into coercion.
Goldsmith concluded that he could immediately tell the Defense Department to stop relying on the March opinion, since he was confident that it was not needed to justify the 24 interrogation techniques the department was actually using, including two called "Fear Up Harsh" and "Pride and Ego Down," which were designed to make subjects nervous without crossing the line into coercion.
In certain circumstances, compromise can obviously turn into coercion, which can lead to omission from the constituency and loss of access.
Larry Gold, associate general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said some of the recent employer letters, by hinting at the possible loss of employees' jobs, appeared to cross the line into improper coercion.
If the threat of some deluded terrorists can drive the liberal system to turn its back on the principles upon which it claims to be founded, and to degenerate into surveillance, coercion and majority tyranny over the minority, I hate to think how it would react if faced with the danger of armies stationed at its borders, mutiny, coup d'etats, invasion, or occupation.
Research into sexual coercion using national samples is rare, and the extent to which adolescents have been forced to have sexual intercourse is still not known.
But I have personally never seen anybody coerced into it, although coercion can, admittedly, take many indirect forms.
There are so many ways in which this leaves vulnerable families exposed to pressure, or coercion into accepting feeble settlements, it doesn't bear thinking about.
Reports have surfaced of spurious medicines, unclean surgical instruments, women not being examined before the operation, and even of coercion into the camp.
In December, at a fund-raising dinner at a hotel in Washington, D.C., twelve hundred people watched a video that told tales of girls' coercion into sexual slavery, followed by accounts of their liberation and redemption.
You face stark choices: ostracism, sham marriages, or worst of all, coercion into leadership – condemned to a lifetime in religious attire that doesn't even cinch at the waist let alone follow seasonal trends.
