Word: coercion
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None of the villagers I spoke with had been offered any guidance by a family-planning or social worker. No one had explained to them, for instance, that sterilization does not cause impotence. Officially, there was no coercion, but the elaborate system of "disincentives" amounted to the same thing. Government employees had to produce two or more candidates for sterilization. For such civil servants, or for anybody who was being pressured into submitting to sterilization himself, it was usually possible to hire a stand-in for about 200 rupees ($22). For those not in government service, all sorts of privileges...
...indoctrination and constant chanting" may create "an inability to think, to be reasonable or logical," but that does not make it any less a religion. Both of the supposed victims voluntarily submitted to the tightly regulated life in the local temple, he said. The prosecutors admitted that no physical coercion was involved, and they failed to show any "deception" that, under New York law, might have justified the charges. The judge sympathized with the "hurt, fear and loneliness" of parents when children reject their former life, but, he added, the law sees nothing wrong with "unconventional" belief, proselytizing, chanting...
...fewer such students than there are places to be assigned, and that therefore each year many students are assigned against their will. We argue for greater uniformity (or equality) not for its own sake, but because, increasingly, the price of this kind of institutionalized diversity is something regarded as coercion...
...restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...
Abortion provides a significant contrast between the candidates. Both oppose abortion on demand. But Buckley is a champion of the Right to Life movement and author of a proposed constitutional amendment that would severely restrict abortion. Moynihan is against any such amendment, arguing that it would be "coercion" of one group by another. "We are in a post-Constantinian church," he says. "We really cannot expect our moral code to be translated into the legal code...