Word: coercion
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...among Vietnamese students a 'new left' of some variety that gave a degree of support to the National Liberation Front," they reported. "This expectation was found to have little or no validity. Most students said that the N.L.F. received what support it did have only because of coercion, expediency or frustration...
...leaned forward abruptly. A coalition government in Vietnam, he argued," would create far greater danger for world peace than the present restricted conflict." Historically would resume as it did after the 1962 neutralization of Laos, because "when you bring the Communists in, you have one party using coercion as a means of influencing the people and the other party has to resort to the same." He settled back again and lit a Pall Mall...
...annulment, granted when the marriage contract can be proved in some way defective, and thus invalid from inception. Among grounds for annulment are impotence, refusal to have children, lunacy at time of marriage, coercion of one of the partners into wedlock, or some technical defect of the ceremony itself. French church tribunals, for instance, granted Napoleon an annulment from Josephine because the required two witnesses were not present at the marriage. Last year, the New York Archdiocese got 1,500 annulment petitions, of which it granted nearly half-mostly on the "technical defect" that the marriage was contracted before...
Consent v. Coercion. As Rusk sees it, the great conflict in today's world is between the "forces of consent" and the "forces of coercion"-and to yield to coercion is to invite catastrophe. "Can we build peace," he asks, "by standing aside in the face of aggression...
Voluntary? Not quite, countered Principal Oshinsky. The teachers taught those five-year-olds to say those prayers, which means, he said, official coercion, however benign. When the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it avoided the voluntary question by ruling simply that the First Amendment does not compel a state to let citizens pray in a state-owned facility whenever they wish to do so. Judge Henry J. Friendly told PRAY: "The plaintiffs must content themselves with having their children say these prayers before 9 a.m. and after...