Word: coercion
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Sometimes the expansiveness of the business ethic raises cries of monopoly, illegal practices, or coercion; and the HSA, placed in the context of a sensitive and critical student body, has suffered from the awareness of a non-business community that a stranger is in its midst...
...business operation close to the College has a coercive effect. The HSA may make contracts with other business enterprises for exclusive rights, such as that of supplying linen to undergraduates, thus depriving the student of the right to choose a service for himself. This also implies the coercion of outside firms, since the HSA can sign, for all undergraduate middlemen, a large contract which would have considerable influence over individual firms...
...repugnance, the March 10 account of the Italian couple who were declared "public sinners" and, in effect, were deprived of their economic livelihood by their Catholic bishop because they contracted a civil marriage. I do not believe the founder of Christianity established any church for this purpose (slander and coercion...
...younger DeKoning was also charged with extortion (extracting kickbacks from builders), but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of coercion, drew a one-year suspended sentence...
...anger and revulsion to accounts of seduction. But, they insist-and this is where they differ most markedly from many other psychiatrists-that sexual deviation is invariably the result of seduction as they broadly define it, ranging from lascivious permissiveness when a child engages in sexual stimulation to outright coercion...