Word: coercion
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...Faculty vote would coerce the minority of the Faculty that disagreed. Anhony G. Octtinger, professor of Ling-uistics and Gordon McKay professor of Applied Mathematics said that "there is a moral issue I must weigh against the moral issue of the war. I can not live with coercion of fellow Faculty members...
...vote expressing the majority opinion of the Faculty would have no binding effect on those who disagreed. After several Faculty members emphasized that the resolutions would have no coercive effect on the dissenting minority, Hoffmann said that a refusal to vote would also be coercion against those who felt the Faculty should state its view...
...letter read in part: "We trust that all members of Winthrop House believe with us that there is no place in a community of free men for intimidation, coercion, or the threat of coercion, or racism and ask that they join with us in extending our sincere apologies to the persons against whom these notes wore directed...
...growing reasonably acclimated when, by and by. I ran into a girl whom I might as well call Betsy, because that's her name. I was growing acclimated and she was on the brink of complete collapse. "You can't build a legitimate movement on coercion and violence. "she said. or words to that effect. Betsy allowed as how she was attending classes regularly for the first time she could remember, now, during the strike, to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as freedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with...
Equally Unkind. The standard treatment for insanity in George Ill's day was coercion and restraint. If he refused to eat because he had difficulty swallowing, or if he was too restless to lie down, his attendants would put him in a straitjacket...