Acknowledgment of the right to equality often must be coerced from the advantaged by the disadvantaged.
They are now arguing that much of this money is "coerced" from members, and is thus an infringement of free speech.
Mr. Rodriguez's lawyer, Steven J. Chaikin, maintained during the trial that the later statements had been coerced from Mr. Rodriguez by an aggressive detective.
According to human rights groups, people taken into custody by such intelligence units were often drugged and then thrown into the sea from airplanes after the last bit of useful information had been coerced from them through torture.
Many are coerced, from an early age, into this potentially dangerous and demeaning work.
For starters, Khadr's supposed confession seems clearly to have been coerced from him.
Testimony is coerced from Palestinian children, pressuring them to give up information about protest leaders and participants.
German authorities say Cornelius Gurlitt, now 80, kept hundreds of works — mostly graphics — that were confiscated under the Nazis or whose sale was coerced from desperate owners trying to raise cash or obtain exit documents out of the country.
The testimony was part of a hearing about whether certain statements made by Khadr, who has been accused of throwing a grenade at an American soldier, were coerced, and should be excluded from his military commission.
Ward killed himself having been targeted by a vindictive state seeking a scapegoat for Profumo's behaviour; was prosecuted for crimes that it is now generally accepted he did not commit, facing evidence from witnesses who were coerced by police into lying; and pilloried by a hysterical tabloid press.
