It is deliberate long-term use of coercion to control every part of the partner's life.
Under federal law, slavery is defined, in part, by the use of coercion, torture, starvation, imprisonment, threats, and psychological abuse.
Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantánamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military.
The majority Berlin verdict aimed to reform mainstream psychiatry, and denounced the profession's serious abuse of human rights, unaccountability and use of coercion.
But, the officials say, these are the long-delayed fruits of the administration's selective use of coercion in a part of the world where that is understood.
The continued use of coercion made the colonists more, not less recalcitrant.
Is, then, the use of coercion a 'global and indiscriminate invasion of autonomy?
The paradigmatic public use of coercion is judicially imposed punishment, capital or otherwise.
Given that political power is coercive power, we can understand Rawls as endorsing a presumption against the use of coercion.
Only where such a common good is present will a society hold together without the use of coercion (PE 202).
Historically, the use of coercion by powerful actors has been of great concern to philosophers and legal theorists.
