Word: coercion
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Second, the Ad Board's view of itself as an "educational" rather than a "judicial" body creates an atmosphere more conducive to coercion than to due process...
...king in the Palace Paper--a gossip newspaper that makes scandalous assertions about him. The mysterious author of these starting revelations--about how the king bathes in rum punch and gets showered down by a garden hose--is the king himself, who desperately tries, under Scaphio and Phantis' coercion, to make a statement about his sense of humor...
...real enemy of reform in the Academy isapathy," he said. The activist left is "committednot to freedom but to coercion...activists are notrelativists but dogmatists...
...give a quarter to a homeless person because it seems futile would happily give a lot more than that to live again (as we did barely a decade ago) in a society where the sight of a blanket-wrapped beggar is shocking. In a democracy, "government coercion" is a crude misrepresentation of the process by which citizens make a collective decision to achieve together what they cannot achieve individually...
...Israel halts settlements due to U.S. pressure, its government will lose face for having bowed to coercion. Yet if Bush decides to loan Israel money with no strings attached, he will do it in a way that makes him look like a martyr to Jewish lobbyists. We can hardly expect the Arab nations to respect Israel's right to exist when we implicitly refuse to recognize it ourselves...