Like any confidence man, the coercer can only exploit a weakness that we refuse to confront directly, ourselves. |
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If he had been lured or coerced from his house, all traces of the coercer were now apparently obliterated. |
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Others identify coercion with the making of threats, but seek to distinguish threats from offers in ways that avoid reference to a baseline, and instead look at the qualities of the coercer and his activities. |
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This last condition is actually part of a larger disjunct for Feinberg, the other half of which allows that the coercer may be bluffing, and thus does not actively do anything to constrain the coercee's options. |
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If the Commission, after having granted conditional immunity ultimately finds that the immunity applicant has acted as a coercer, it will withhold immunity. |
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Thus, the coercer needs superior and diverse military capabilities, such as tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. |
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Compellence is the use of threats to make a target stop an action it has already undertaken, or to take an action that the coercer wants. |
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The principles by which we judge a coercee's responsibility for acquiescing to coercion may affect whether it is rational or productive for a would-be coercer to attempt coercion in the first place. |
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In his time Piggott was a famously vigorous coercer of horses but was also known for his artistry and his super-human judgment of pace, which looked bred into him through a long ancestry of jockeys and trainers. |
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Increasingly government acted not only as coercer and controller of private action but also as provider, instructor, propagator, benefactor, landlord, employer, and funder. |
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