Coerced

Word COERCED
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Definitions and meanings of "Coerced"

What do we mean by coerced?

To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

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The word "coerced" in example sentences

Summary of Livers lawsuit: Alleges false arrest, pointing to what it calls a coerced interrogation of Livers, whose mental disability made him far more likely to give in to the demands of a stressful interrogation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the externality of being coerced is a major uncompensated one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stacy Sullivan, another counterterrorism adviser with Human Rights Watch, said the Military Commissions Act is unclear on what happens if a guilty plea is allegedly coerced from a detainee. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She called the coerced confessions “entirely incredible” and said they “defy belief.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it not possible that just one of those being coerced is not guilty!! rln ❋ Unknown (2007)

Is it not possible that just one of those being coerced is not guilty!! ❋ Unknown (2007)

I explained that I was on firm legal and moral ground by exercising my choice not to engage in coerced patriotism, that as a Quaker I didn't believe in ritualistic idol worship, and if the seniors in my homeroom hadn't already formulated an opinion that the morning pledge is a true affirmation of their patriotism or a mindless recitation of a ritual learned in kindergarten, seeing me participate in my own way wasn't going to irreparably harm them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As a result of convergent evolution of torture practices, it seems that various figures interested in coerced confessions — Spanish Inquisitors, People’s Liberation Army, Khmer Rouge, etc. — all hit upon the basic idea behind waterboarding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only time guilty pleas are allowed to be overturned is if there are some circumstances where the defendant didn't understand English properly, was physically coerced, that is, threatened with physical harm if they didn't plead guilty. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In addtion, it was necessary to reinstate the inspection regime, backed up with highly targeted force if necessary to compel inspections the so-called coerced inspection idea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The second issue has to do with the -- with the use of what's known as coerced testimony, the introduction of that into a trial involving suspected terrorists. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But also, you know, rape can be a psychologically coerced, that is not alleged in this complaint. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"The rack and torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," and an earlier Court (in Fisher v. State - November 1926) called coerced confessions "the chief iniquity, the crowning infamy (and) the curse of all countries." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in the end, it appears that in the rush to convict law enforcement officials used inappropriate interrogation techniques that led to what are called coerced confessions, apparently obtained from each of the accused in the Central Park Jogger case. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile in South Africa, the Woman's Legal Centre (WLC) has collected 12 cases of what they're terming coerced sterilisation, all in public health facilities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reversing that call coerced a Jeff Reed 18-yarder. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But in the view of a federal judge, the fear on the part of his colleagues that they might lose their jobs if they didn't tell investigators what had happened makes their initial confessions "coerced," and since those statements were used by federal prosecutors as a basis for their indictment of the men, the indictment was flawed and had to be tossed out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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