"No person ... shall intimidate, threaten or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote," according to federal law.
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Jones also admitted he attempted to coerce about 30 more.
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China's ability to coerce the Philippines has also been reduced.
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There, he would try to coerce these women into sex.
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Attempting to control and coerce rather than embolden and liberate?
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The list is meant to coerce these countries into improving.
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The civil contempt citation was designed to coerce her testimony.
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The civil contempt citation was designed to coerce her testimony.
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This doesn't mean you have to cheat, lie or coerce.
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Prosecutors believe he tried to coerce the girlfriend into not testifying.
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Every day I confront my impulse to coerce people into care.
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Chinese officials have said their policies do not coerce technology transfers.
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Nauman constructs scenarios that coerce meaningfulness from our participation in them.
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Under the USA Patriot Act, a violation of federal or state criminal law qualifies as "domestic terrorism" if it is intended to coerce or intimidate a civilian population or to coerce the policy of the government.
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The United States has run low on options to coerce change there.
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Or was the aim to coerce the publishers into revealing their sources?
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No one should use their position to coerce another into a relationship.
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"The judge should not do anything to coerce a verdict," she continued.
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It's not about sex or trying to coerce someone into have sex.
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The lead House impeachment manager likened these hardball tactics to the alleged scheme to coerce Ukraine that got him impeached: Trump abused his power to coerce Ukraine into announcing investigations for his personal benefit by freezing military aid.
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Both said that Guevara did not coerce them into identifying the Hernandez brothers.
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That could coerce them to vote in support of its governance policy suggestions.
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It describes the ability to coax and persuade others, rather than coerce them.
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Should state governments coerce mothers caring for their disabled children into joining unions?
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I managed to coerce my coworkers to join me away from the office.
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"However, the federal government cannot coerce anyone to be tested," the spokesperson added.
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It would be unethical to coerce students into volunteering in such stressed circumstances.
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Wynn allegedly tried to coerce sexual encounters with past employees on multiple occasions.
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Rubin allegedly conspired to "coerce and fraudulently induce" his wife to sign the agreement.
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It's been documented that unions use intimidation tactics to coerce workers at these meetings.
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For the past year, Washington has marshaled sanctions to isolate, punish, and coerce Iran.
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This worldview does not recognize that private, economic power has a capacity to coerce.
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The administration could fail to convince or coerce U.S. partners, leaving American influence diminished.
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And it is using its trade and investment as tools to coerce its neighbors.
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She claims they were trying to coerce her into lying about their tax woes.
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Seeks to coerce business by using her office to get public to pressure it.
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"This is clearly trying to coerce the US into playing ball," Narang told CNN.
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The prisoner argued that Mr. Scarcella choked and hit him to coerce a confession.
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"People are learning tactics of how to intimidate and coerce online," Professor Bateson said.
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A dictator meets an opponent he can't co-opt, corrupt, calumniate, cow or coerce.
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He thinks designers are infinitely powerful and can coerce people to do whatever they want.
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Still, the macaque didn't act aggressively or try to coerce the deer, the researchers say.
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His attorney claims he did not coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth — which her family dismisses.
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The incentive for the US is that only Russia can coerce Assad into an agreement.
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Even though it denied the practice, the threat could be enough to coerce the labels.
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But can you use that information to actually coerce them to vote a certain way?
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Neither Congress nor the president could compel or coerce any state to appropriate money. 2.
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He threatens those who oppose him, but he is not in a position to coerce.
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Lying resembles violence, she says, because it can coerce people to act against their will.
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The way it's used is mostly to coerce and co-opt noncompliant parties into registering.
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You can coerce others into only taking their fair share by threatening them with punishment.
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STOCKHOLM — A cultural impresario, accused of using his influence to coerce women into having sex.
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The Constitution gives the House few powers to punish the president or coerce his compliance.
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Tehran's ability to coerce and destabilize its neighbors would grow exponentially with nuclear weapons capability.
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And what dictators are not already able to coerce you or Apple to unlock your phone?
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It is another thing for the federal government to coerce everyone else to embrace it too.
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That would coerce Facebook to treat users better, as leaving would actually be a viable option.
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Some 12,000 women are abducted every year, sometimes by complete strangers who coerce them into wedlock.
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Now, he's using his powers to coerce states to stop investigations into him and his businesses.
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She was devastated to know they would coerce her to get an abortion against her will.
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So can a hotel legally coerce guests into leaving only positive reviews or none at all?
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Authoritarian leaders have begun to weaponize their most vulnerable populations in order to coerce stronger countries.
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So rather than making people coerce us into sharing our memories together, let's give them freely.
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Abusers often use guns to control and coerce victims, even when they never pull the trigger.
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We will not interfere with restrain or coerce you in the exercise of the above rights.
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Andrew Cuomo is trying illegally to coerce financial companies into halting business relations with the group.
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The UFC has used this structure to coerce, bully, and ensure that its brand remains paramount.
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Nothing about that is expected to change because of the Saudi maneuvering to coerce Mr. Hariri.
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"Whenever someone's girlfriend tried to coerce me into a threesome, I got extra annoyed," said Noelle.
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" It accuses Beijing of "leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce neighboring countries.
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The urge to preempt would dominate; whoever gets the first few weapons will coerce or preempt.
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"I don't see how a static cross can coerce anybody into a state religion," said Moore.
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It will continue trying to co-opt and coerce other Islamist factions and tribes, especially in Syria.
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Luckily, Hoffman and Pat's friends were able to coerce him to stay with some friends further inland.
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No country or actor should be able to coerce, blackmail or hold America hostage to its policies.
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Prisoners have not been deprived food in order to coerce a stubborn lone prisoner to obey guards.
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"The suspects tried to coerce the employees of the business to complete a transaction," Ottawa Police Sgt.
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Nor does the USG have any information that anyone has attempted to coerce him into doing so.
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"The only lawful purpose for her confinement is to coerce her to give testimony," the filing reads.
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Blackmon was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, which his lawyers argued was used against him to coerce a confession.
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Yet stripping Afghan refugees of a secure legal status wasn't the only ploy to coerce them out.
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"We believed, and still believe, that it is illegal for him to coerce campaign donations," she said.
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He probably would have lined up the drugs and tried to coerce you into a threesome… Sure.
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That includes the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to manipulate the press, influence academic institutions and coerce companies.
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Those of us who believe in democracy don't think despots should coerce their subjects using military power.
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Jonatan was running from gang members who had repeatedly tried to coerce him into joining their ranks.
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Waiting periods have no basis in medicine; they are an attempt to judge, shame, and coerce patients.
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Powell unsuccessfully accused the prosecutors and investigators of malfeasance by trying to coerce Flynn into pleading guilty.
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The courts have also ruled that funding decisions may not be used to "coerce" states into actions.
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This would make it more difficult to use the threat of prosecutions to coerce settlements from corporations.
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It is also in the interest of al-Shabaab to coerce community members to make untrue claims.
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"Soft power," defined as the ability to "attract and co-op, rather than coerce," was the currency.
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Perhaps it hopes to coerce Iran into accepting a "better deal" by inducements, or more likely, threats.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE's office.
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Dog catchers had to use a stick and bin to coerce the sea lion to waddle back home.
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One solution, as Trump has outlined it, will be to coerce Mexico to do it with economic pressure.
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Vallee spent years trying to coerce teenage girls into producing pornographic videos and photos through threats and harassment.
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The other states that "no person shall coerce or direct any employee" to vote or contribute to campaigns.
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Others said he used a mix of intimidation and the promise of helping their career to coerce them.
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The second option requires showing an intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce the depicted person.
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Just sometimes, an order appears in their logs without needing a smarmy salesperson to coerce anyone in person.
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Did the President know that Cohen was lying to Congress, or did he coerce him to do so?
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This data throttling occurred seemingly to coerce the fire department to upgrade to a more expensive data package.
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It's also flummoxed the US government, which has been divided over how best to coerce China into compliance.
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Plus, Michael did not use his power as Holly's boss to coerce her or make her feel small.
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The federal government can't use grants to coerce state and local governments into doing whatever the president wants.
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In one prominent decision, Gorsuch argued that the government should rarely, if ever, coerce the consciences of believers.
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Venezuela: President Nicolás Maduro used Cuban doctors, who were in the country on medical missions, to coerce voters.
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That leaves only a strategy of negotiations, backed by sanctions, to coerce the North to curb its behavior.
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For decades, Washington has tried to persuade, induce or coerce Israel into altering its policies toward the Palestinians.
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It can do so much, and convince and coerce and manipulate, and it's doing a really good job.
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It also alleges that he withheld military aid and other favors to coerce Ukraine to do his bidding.
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He acknowledged the relationship but told the Associated Press that he did not try to coerce the woman.
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The United States considers Taiwan's political status to be undetermined, while opposing attempts by China to coerce unification.
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As Sechser and Fuhrmann demonstrate, nuclear powers have not generally been able to coerce other nuclear powers: in the sixties, the Soviets' nuclear superiority didn't help solve territorial disputes with China; and, more recently, the United States hasn't been able to coerce North Korea into abandoning its nuclear-weapons development.
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Russian intelligence has historically conducted blackmail – known as kompromat or "compromising material" in Russian – to coerce targets into submission.
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Parents are beating their toddler's stuffed animals to coerce their kids to eat, but one dad has had enough.
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Whether Trump can coerce those regimes without the help of international institutions and multilateral agreements remains to be seen.
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Rule 3-120 barred lawyers from using their position of power to coerce their clients into sleeping with them.
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A violent assault is not the same as a boss who persistently tries to coerce sex from an employee.
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Legal precedent makes clear the federal government cannot broadly use federal funds to coerce local jurisdictions into certain actions.
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Or it's about a ghost who wants to coerce Christina Hendricks into starring in a Zayn Malik music video?
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"The United States will never use energy to coerce your nations, and we cannot allow others to do so."
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It sounds profoundly sad, having to coerce viewers into making you visible because you weren't seen, heard or felt.
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Anxiety over China's influence operations has grown over Beijing's willingness to coerce, blackmail and bribe people in other countries.
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Is it credible that Hamas could coerce thousands of people to gallop to their death and incur crippling injuries?
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Legally, she can only be imprisoned as part of an effort by the court to coerce her into testifying.
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In other international news: Our reporting revealed that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela used Cuban doctors to coerce voters.
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Under the law, superior officers who coerce subordinates into sexual relationships can be jailed for up to six months.
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Nor is she going to coerce or bribe or threaten people into changing, or pretending to change, their religion.
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To coerce Mr. Kurti into removing the tariffs, the United States froze millions of dollars in aid to Kosovo.
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Mr. Coello said that his Venezuelan interrogators tried to coerce him into implicating Mr. López but that he refused.
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Prosecutors have described how Mr. Weinstein, 67, used his power and imposing physicality to coerce women into sexual encounters.
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Time after time, these leaders must coerce, coax, or circumvent the thousands of people under them to take action.
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By edging up to the line of such a war, North Korea can also coerce its adversaries in peacetime.
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Philbin took to the podium, arguing that it was the House's role, not the Senate's, to coerce Bolton's testimony.
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Abusers often use guns to intimidate women into submission, threaten them, and coerce them into remaining in abusive relationships.
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Using your power, star or otherwise, to coerce a woman into not resisting your advances is also sexual assault.
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Though the driving decision had its detractors, hidebound husbands and fathers can still coerce their charges into staying at home.
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"We will definitely not try to coerce or talk somebody into anything," the Interfax news agency cited Kosachyov as saying.
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But it also could coerce more restaurants to play ball with UberEats if their competitors do, eating into their margins.
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When the auction stalled, he even handcuffed Madonna and crawled through her legs to coerce the crowd into bidding higher.
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Twice, she said, he exposed himself and another time he tried to coerce her to get physical with another woman.
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Since 22.55, Virginia has banned spreading nude images or video "with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate" another person.
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Since 2014, Virginia has banned spreading nude images or video "with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate" another person.
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Predatory lenders may try to coerce you into making a commitment by throwing around jargon you may not fully understand.
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"The prospect of trade action on aluminum may be sufficient to coerce improved behavior of bad actors," the department said.
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If gender norms coerce mothers, rather than fathers, into staying at home, then a child-care subsidy would be liberating.
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Zervos said in 2016 that Trump forcibly kissed her and groped her, attempting to coerce her into a sexual act.
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If sanctions fail to cause regime change, Step Two is to coerce or bribe military officers to overthrow the regime.
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Nevertheless, responding to the CCP's tactics requires demonstrating that our democratic system cannot be abused to coerce by the CCP.
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He chipped the keeper and was able to slide in to coerce the ball into the back of the net.
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Typically, an incoming President seeks to charm, co-opt, and, when necessary, coerce the federal workforce into executing his vision.
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The regime has lost its ideological legitimacy and political hegemony, but not its ability to coerce the population into submission.
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Coerce a bunch of unsuspecting machines into sending gobs of data at a target and bam, the target is down.
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In general, the federal government isn't supposed to use grants to coerce cities and states into adopting its preferred policies.
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Coerce scout leaders and karate instructors for badges and belts your children would otherwise have to exert themselves to earn.
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"It's appalling to coerce confessions from civil society activists," Bass said in a tweet, calling for both to be freed.
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Always able to outwit and coerce political opponents, he was re-elected to a seventh term in office in 2013.
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You welcomed Russian help in 2016, tried to coerce Ukraine's help in 2019, and won't protect our elections in 2020.
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You welcomed Russian help in 28503, tried to coerce Ukraine's help in 22020, and won't protect our elections in 2020.
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Moonves denies allegations that he abused his position of influence to coerce female actresses and producers into unwanted sexual activity.
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Using the presidency to coerce a foreign power into undermining a political opponent would be, by any measure, profoundly corrupt.
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The allegations include the use and sale of drugs on campus, the attempt to coerce women into prostitution, and rape.
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The jury acquitted him of sexual abuse — a charge that encompasses the misuse of authority to coerce the women into sex.
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S. subsidiaries of Chinese companies" from "complying with foreign boycotts seeking to coerce U.S. companies to conform with #China's government views.
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The administration, meanwhile, has attempted to coerce states into carrying out a hardline immigration agenda by threatening to deny federal grants.
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Surprisingly no one tries to coerce me into their store — probably because I'm the weird girl sucking on a plastic spoon.
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I've already been to prison, so attempting to coerce me with a grand jury subpoena is just not going to work.
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He remains in custody and has not entered a plea, though his attorney claims he did not coerce or force Elizabeth.
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Acts of terror are generally intended to intimidate or coerce a government or civilians in furtherance of political or social objectives.
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That's allowed North Korea to escape some of the pain Trump hoped would coerce North Korea to end its nuclear program.
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" Later, when posing for a picture with the girls, the aliens coerce Ginger by urging, "Give us a kiss, ginger one!
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Several people have criticized Cruz for trying to coerce voters with this letter, including Iowa's own secretary of state, a Republican.
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"During the lockout, the attackers displayed threatening messaging in an attempt to scare and coerce victims into paying," according to Lookout.
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Still, certification requires the government to determine that the attack was an effort to coerce U.S. civilians or the U.S. government.
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If you don't believe Putin would coerce his own ally, consider that Assad was reportedly notified about Putin's decision just today.
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Trump reportedly threatened to withhold key ObamaCare payments during a Wednesday interview to coerce Democrats to the negotiating table on healthcare.
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As such, they are not calling the shooting terrorism -- an attack on civilians to intimidate or coerce society for political purposes.
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Wade preserved can defeat those who want laws that coerce reproduction and that degrade the dignity and safety of pregnant individuals.
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This should be "compulsion by law" to "coerce belief in, observance of, or financial support for religion" by government, they claim.
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Vern BuchananVernon Gale BuchananMORE (R-Fla.) tried to coerce a business partner into signing a false affidavit regarding illegal campaign donations.
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While Clinton abused the power of his office, he did not, by any of Lewinsky's accounts, coerce her into sexual activity.
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Are we going to coerce Martin Keown into wearing a thong for an hour, because he's got his season predictions wrong?
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"We are handing them the ability to coerce our companies," said Derek Scissors, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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"No human being should be detained under conditions so harsh that their only plausible purpose is to coerce a confession," Mrs.
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The numbers keep ticking up as women tell the stories of men who used their power to overwhelm or coerce them.
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Couples spent months listening to tapes — yes tapes — or they booked a talented D.J. to coerce attendees onto the dance floor.
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Sondland became one of "the three amigos" in Trump's campaign to allegedly coerce Ukraine to announce an investigation into Joe Biden.
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"Efforts to coerce nuclear powers to abandon nuclear weapons have intensified significantly recently," the Tass news agency quoted him as saying.
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He's accused of using military aid money to coerce Zolensky into investigating the business ties of potential 2020 rival Joe Biden.
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Trump's campaign has centered on the promise of building a border wall and will coerce Mexico in to paying for it.
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But if they continue down this perilous path, pretty soon there won't be enough doctors and health institutions left to coerce.
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Mr. White has been threatening to file this lawsuit for months in an attempt to coerce MLB into paying his client.
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He has claimed that investigators tried to coerce him into lying about his knowledge of whistleblower site WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.
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"E-mail evidence indicates Wendi's parents, especially her mother, wanted Wendi to coerce Markel into allowing the relocation," according to the affidavit.
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He's charged with violating a law against using interstate commerce to "to entice and coerce" a minor to engage in sexual activity.
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After failing to coerce the location of the weapons out of him, Rick brutally impales the man on a piece of metal.
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It is a violation of free speech and freedom of religion, they argue, to coerce a business owner to contravene his conscience.
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Tilda agreed to sleep with Marquis-Boire, but during the act he tried to coerce her into having anal sex with him.
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But Amazon is using fear and oppression as a way to coerce its employees into working faster, longer, more productive work hours.
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If it chose to do so, Google could use the information it has about you to embarrass, coerce, or even ruin you.
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President Trump has tried using economic leverage over China as a way to coerce them into helping the U.S. with North Korea.
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He&aposs for trying t0 force them to reduce barriers to American exports by using tariffs as a tool to coerce them.
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According to the indictment ... Kelly and others engaged in a scheme to coerce minors to participate in sexually explicit acts on camera.
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Some street-sleepers fear that, if they were to use such shelters, officials might coerce them into returning to their home towns.
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On the contrary, the bill allows employers to coerce employees into taking genetic tests they might not want to take at all.
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That would be key for meeting the statutory definition of domestic terrorism as designed to "intimidate or coerce" civilians or the government.
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Some of Epstein's victims have come forward saying that he used his connection to Victoria's Secret to coerce them into sexual acts.
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Under a carbon tax, whether we are conscious of it or not, higher prices would coerce us away from our preferred choices.
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Epstein reportedly used his ties to Victoria's Secret's parent company's CEO to coerce victims into sexual acts by promising them modeling jobs.
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Prosecutors allege that Kelly ran an elaborate enterprise to exploit women and young girls and coerce them into committing illegal sexual activity.
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More broadly, Washington has long pursued a meddling foreign policy that aims to censure and coerce foreign nations into more desirable behavior.
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The instructor's attempts to physically coerce Hannah into continuing and ignoring her wish to stop turns awkward sex into sex that violates.
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"It would be very difficult to have an across-the-board number that wouldn't coerce anybody that wasn't zero," Ms. Smith said.
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Sebelius, says that the government cannot use the threat of large cuts in federal funds to "coerce" states into adopting federal policies.
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In charging the two lieutenants, prosecutors said they sometimes used physical force or their administrative power to coerce women into providing sex.
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Google's employees were able to successfully coerce its management to abandon a controversial contract with the government, referred to as Project Maven.
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If the U.S. attacked and North Korea responded, America would need to keep escalating to coerce the North Koreans to back down.
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But as the scandal unfolded, reports emerged that Epstein had used his connection to Victoria's Secret to coerce victims into sexual acts.
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Similarly, the Justice Department has sought to coerce state and local governments to assign their police forces to pursue federal immigration priorities.
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"China is guided by the principle of independence.... We will neither subordinate ourselves to others, nor coerce others into submission," Wang said.
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There are very real things that a president could at least try to do to coerce media outlets into delivering favorable coverage.
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Unless you're worried authorities may legally coerce you to unlock your phone with something like TouchID or FaceID, we recommend using those.
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"Contempt may be used either to coerce compliance, to punish the contemnor, and/or to remove the obstruction," the Congressional Research Service said.
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ICE thought it could get away with using indefinite detention to coerce Iraqis to accept deportation despite the dangers they face in Iraq.
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However, they are sufficient to empower local actors so that the Islamic Republic can threaten and coerce its adversaries without risking direct retaliation.
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A party leader says they were fleeing an attempt by the BJP to coerce them into changing sides by means of "muscle power".
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"Ferguson made it part of the national debate—the way states coerce people into paying and deprive them of their livelihood," says Ciolfi.
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Mueller was accused of acting like a dirty cop and attempting to coerce witnesses like Jerome Corsi to lie in exchange for leniency.
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Sondland, for instance, allegedly helped Trump carry out his scheme to coerce the Ukrainian government while career foreign-service officers raised red flags.
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According to the federal indictment ... Kelly and others engaged in a scheme to coerce minors to participate in sexually explicit acts on camera.
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"That's troubling because it suggests the Cambodian government may have used the threat of a shutdown to essentially coerce the sale," he said.
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"No human being should be indefinitely detained under conditions so harsh that their only plausible purpose is to coerce a confession," she wrote.
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The Seoul Western District Court ordered that Korean Air pay him 20 million won for attempting to coerce him to drop the case.
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The second, manifest in the recent sanctions package passed by the House, is to broadly coerce Turkey into better behavior with economic pressure.
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Is it considered an addiction when you forcibly coerce the child sitting next to you into handing over their half-eaten Ring Pop?
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Thanks to the good folks at Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, party bros now have a new weapon with which to coerce people into drinking.
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Against pick-and-rolls, Gentry's calculus has been to drop his starting center and coerce ball-handlers into a flurry of long twos.
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" Alluding to his own impeachment for using the power of his office to coerce campaign aid from Ukraine, Mr. Trump shouted: "Impeach them!
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Then, as now, the power of the state was brought to bear to coerce a legal, but politically unpopular, business out of existence.
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Governments can try to convince or coerce their constituencies into thinking freedom and democracy are not worth the disorder that often accompanies them.
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"The state did not make their case and they tried to coerce Kevin and make him lie," she said, referring to Mr. McCloud.
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He offered details about his conversations with Trump and Giuliani that point towards an effort to coerce Ukraine into investigating Trump's political rivals.
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As a result, nuclear states are less likely to successfully coerce an adversary than non-nuclear states, which can more credibly threaten war.
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Under Baghdadi, it raced for territory in Syria and Iraq, and was willing to coerce, rather than persuade, Sunnis to join its realm.
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Belle falls in love with Beast, her captor, while the town meathead simultaneously attempts to coerce her into marriage and killing the Beast.
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From Hollywood to sports to politics, powerful men stand accused of abusing their power to intimidate, coerce and physically force women into compliance.
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In November, state prosecutors indicted Ms. Choi on extortion charges, saying she leveraged her connections with Ms. Park to coerce Samsung and others.
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Most academic research shows that sanctions are generally ineffective, especially when they are being used to coerce another government to change its behavior.
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But the worst example is President Richard Nixon's campaign to coerce "his" Fed chairman, Arthur Burns, into promulgating policy that guaranteed devastating inflation.
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"But at the same time, they need to be a responsible state and not want to coerce or to exploit partnerships," he said.
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"China cannot be allowed to use its artificial islands to coerce its neighbors or limit freedom of navigation or overflight," Iowa's Republican Gov.
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Section 23(a)(28) outlaws any employer attempts to "interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of rights" guaranteed by Section 21.
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He would allegedly physically and mentally abuse victims to coerce confessions of fabricated crimes committed against him, including poisoning him or damaging his property.
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Taylor's testimony describes a campaign by Trump and his allies to coerce an erstwhile ally into laundering his political talking points through legitimate institutions.
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So many of these devices seem to rely on the ability of caregivers to coerce their elderly relative or patient into using this solution.
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Eastern Europe's gravitation towards NATO does not represent NATO's ability to threaten, coerce, and annex these countries but the expression of their national interests.
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The slaves were required to submit "collateral," such as nude photos, that Raniere then used as blackmail to coerce their compliance, according to authorities.
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Bolstered by Kevorkian's mounting claims of assisted suicide, Michigan lawmakers in 1998 made it a crime to force or coerce someone to commit suicide.
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It will have to cook up some plausible-sounding explanation for the mystery and coax, cajole or coerce the missing men into playing along.
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The questions are if these sanctions will coerce Iran to change its behavior, and to what extent other nations will tolerate this iconoclastic hardline.
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Until then, we must strongly repudiate unethical conduct, burning the bridges linking respected academic research and institutions to practices that coerce, mislead, and harm.
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To surmount such adversity, China relied on its soft power abilities, including its cultural strength to coerce its neighbors into cooperation and even assimilation.
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"We'll see whether [leadership] can strong-arm, coerce, buy off—whatever else it is they do behind closed doors—to get support," she said.
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In a separate incident in Canada this week, three armed men entered a cryptocurrency exchange's offices and attempted to coerce employees to transfer funds.
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Washington is demanding an end to the theft of trade secrets and practices that coerce U.S. companies to turn over technology to Chinese firms.
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The indictment alleges that Bell and others conspired to give drugs to human trafficking victims to control and coerce them into commercial sex work.
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Administrations of both parties have spent most of their Iran energies trying to cajole or coerce Tehran to relinquish and desist, without much success.
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Mr. Ghosn's family has said it believes the repeated arrests are a tactic by prosecutors to try to coerce a confession from Mr. Ghosn.
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"But there is nothing about the history of sanctions that suggests they can coerce any country into doing something big and dramatic," he said.
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What's new: Schiff told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" later Tuesday that evidence suggests Trump was "using" Rudy Giuliani to "coerce Ukraine" in that probe.
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And it can be difficult to tell whether the person being surveilled has given consent, because abusers frequently coerce victims into using such apps.
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Trump weaponized taxpayer dollars to coerce a foreign leader to target U.S. citizens with a criminal investigation, aiming to affect an American presidential election.
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Aside from denying individualized justice and driving mass punishment, they usurp the role of the jury, coerce guilty pleas and, yes, insulate police misconduct.
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I hope this meeting will coerce world leaders to take action, especially in reducing emissions by 7.6 percent in 2020 and every other year!
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The ACLU argued the law interfered with the doctor-patient relationship, and was meant to coerce women into opting out of having an abortion.
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In a key scene, we watch Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) coerce a low-level Fox News employee (Margot Robbie) to hike up her dress.
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The George Washington University Law School professor argued Trump's actions -- allegedly withholding military aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden -- were not impeachable.
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The Cruz campaign did send out a mailer made to look like a government document in order to coerce voters, which was unethical and fraudulent.
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Are you aware of anything that would lead you to believe could information exist that could coerce members of the administration or blackmail the administration?
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" Toback continued trying to coerce her, he listed other actresses he had slept with and told her she couldn't leave until he had "a release.
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I have never used an offer of work or a threat of rebuke to coerce someone into something that they did not want to do.
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The incentive for the US is that only Russia can coerce Assad into an agreement -- one that might (stress, might) ultimately involve his relinquishing power.
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His defense attorney says he doesn't have a violent history and claims he did not coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth — which her family has dismissed.
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Ms. Wang's videotaped contrition was merely an example of how the Chinese authorities routinely coerce detainees into making statements that serve the government's propaganda needs.
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Cybercrime and espionage occur on a daily basis, and a few countries use cyberattacks to coerce other states (like trying to interfere in an election).
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I sit next to her, so she knew this experiment was in the works and volunteered (unlike Jess and Natasha, who I had to coerce).
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The bill would make it a federal crime to coerce a person to produce sexually explicit content, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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Traditionally reluctant to coerce Pyongyang, but under heavy pressure from Washington, the world's second-largest economy has been increasingly clamping down on its historical ally.
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" Though China's specific targets are not named, Taiwan fills the bill: "China is leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce neighboring countries.
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The NPE knows full well that they can likely coerce a business into taking a cheap license in order to spare an expensive court contest.
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A former Italian model named Elisabetta Tai said Epstein also used his Victoria's Secret connection to attempt to coerce her into sex acts in 2004.
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It contains strong anti-coercion provisions that would prohibit an employer from directly or indirectly trying to intimidate or coerce workers into taking comp time.
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A majority should not be able to impose its way of life on others by using the government to coerce people into violating their consciences.
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"Anything that tries to coerce a local government is going to be challenged because these agencies are only responsible for local arrests," Ms. Keaney said.
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He has been a consistent advocate of the administration's use of tariffs as a way to coerce Beijing into making concessions during the bilateral negotiations.
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The law defines terrorism as violent, criminal acts that are intended to intimidate or coerce civilians and governments for an ideological, political or religious purpose.
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Sometimes voters are harassed in a deliberate attempt to prevent them from voting or to coerce them into voting for or against a particular candidate.
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Hideko says her brother fell victim to "hostage justice," when police allegedly strip suspects of their right to remain silent and coerce them to confess.
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The mayor, city council, Department of Human Services, and other city officials have targeted CSS and attempted to coerce it into changing its religious practices.
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The most recent Democratic outcry comes amid accusations that Trump tried to coerce Ukraine's president to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
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For instance, Smith argued that "factions" that used their influence to coerce government into acting a certain way were potentially detrimental to a capitalistic society.
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There are few limits to what a prosecutor or FBI agent can do to coerce a reluctant witness to give the government what it wants.
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Manning may be out of jail again when a new grand jury term starts, but Tenga may also begin imposing fines to coerce her into testifying.
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Then Mulvaney made an even more unabashed declaration, admitting that Trump did freeze nearly $400 million in aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic opponents.
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Finding the means to cajole or coerce China to act should be an American priority, from which much of the rest of Asia policy should flow.
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Butler allegedly used his influence as one of the most powerful coaches in youth volleyball to gain the girls' trust and coerce them into sexual relationships.
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But many in the United States knew of his habit of using his authority to coerce adult seminarians studying for the priesthood to sleep with him.
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Hurd was asked on CNN's "The Situation Room" whether withholding nearly $400 million in aid to coerce Ukraine into investigating Trump's political opponents was impeachable conduct.
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Meanwhile, his nefarious fixer, Hall, uses some salacious lesbian-cocaine-party footage to coerce one of Chuck's underlings to snoop at the United States attorney's office.
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That pattern is unsurprising in authoritarian states, whose leaders often compel or coerce news organisations to produce friendly coverage that would please supporters of those regimes.
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Wolf's former high school classmate Jared James Abrahams attempted to coerce her into sending nude images after he hacked into her computer webcam to take photos.
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Investigators say the couple exposed the victims to drugs and sexual acts, and that Young tried to coerce the children into performing sexual favors on him.
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The lawsuit also accused Ronaldo and his team of taking advantage of her fragile emotional state to coerce her into signing a settlement and nondisclosure agreement.
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Many local police use the threat of criminal charges to coerce people into signing a waiver that says they won't fight to get their property back.
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With one case, in which a suspect recently pleaded guilty, a group of pedophiles ran two fake chat sites to coerce children into producing explicit videos.
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"Criminal gangs use a variety of methods to groom, coerce and control vulnerable children," said Javed Khan, chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, in a statement.
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"Because one of the FBI's jobs is to understand the efforts of foreign adversaries to influence, coerce, corrupt the government of the United States," Comey responded.
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Epstein has been accused of assembling a network of minors to coerce into sexual acts at his home on a daily basis in the early 2000s.
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Passing the Abolish Human Trafficking Act inspires a community of compassion for victims of human trafficking—and justly punishes those who coerce and torture the innocent.
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These doctors' groups are able to coerce health insurance companies into agreeing to pay them very high fees in order to have them in their networks.
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Our goal was to coerce the Russian government to cease its destabilizing behavior in the region and later to support the cease-fire and peace process.
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He's describing, at best, touching a woman without encountering physical resistance from her — or using his power and influence to subtly coerce her into not resisting.
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Priests and ex-priests have said McCarrick abused his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
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" Giles says that the common thread between these two ancient examples is the intent: "to coerce a partner into performing (or not performing) a certain behavior.
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In most matchups, Jordan will instead drop back to wall off the paint, maintain solid rebounding position, and coerce guards into firing up mid-range jumpers.
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Chris Smith, who has a cognitive disability, said Edwards would abuse him and coerce him into doing over 100 hours of labor per week without pay.
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The security minister, Dragan Mektic, accused Croatia's intelligence service of trying to coerce a Bosnian citizen into transporting weapons and explosives to a mosque inside Bosnia.
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The eviction came just over a week after Pepco, the power utility, cut off electricity to the building, ostensibly to coerce those remaining into leaving voluntarily.
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Federal laws define terrorism as a criminal attack intended to intimidate and coerce civilians in order to influence government policy or to otherwise affect government conduct.
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He also plans to visit President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom House Democrats say Trump tried to coerce into investigating the Bidens in exchange for vital military aid.
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It is a strategy too often used against accused first-time non-violent offenders in an attempt to crush them and coerce them into pleading guilty.
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The president's trial centers on his efforts to coerce Mr. Zelensky to find incriminating information about former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats.
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The trial, after all, will determine whether Trump is ultimately convicted and removed from office over his attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political opponent.
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But the question boils down to whether Mr. Trump was seeking to coerce Ukrainian officials into actions to benefit the United States or to benefit himself.
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Also, get the great powers, or at least the United States, to compel, coerce or bribe the government you're trying to break from into going along.
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Great Britain could not coerce Argentine forces to withdraw from the Falkland Islands without a fight in 1982, despite deploying nuclear forces to the South Atlantic.
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Holding up military assistance to coerce Ukraine into investigating Mr. Biden is itself a grave, impeachable abuse of power if done for personal and political reasons.
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That assumption also doesn't account for the reality that some wealthy parents may wield their financial power to coerce and even abuse their college-age children.
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To achieve that goal, Beijing has for years tried to simultaneously coax and coerce Taiwan's adhesion with both the promise of economic benefits and military threats.
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Federal law defines domestic terrorism as violent acts within the U.S. "intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population" or to influence government policy or conduct.
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His scheme run by personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to coerce Ukraine to investigate a political foe, Joe Biden, was just fine, according to the partisan document.
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A whistleblower complaint has led to concerns President Donald Trump attempted to coerce Ukrainian leaders to investigate a potential political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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And Trump's apparent attempt to coerce Ukrainian officials into concocting an attack on Trump's political opponents — seemingly by holding up congressionally appropriated foreign aid — is outrageous.
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It said that it found Ms. Kim's testimony credible, consistent and detailed, and that Mr. Ahn had enough power to coerce her into unwanted sexual relations.
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"Defendants have been talking to me about my pregnancy – I feel like they are trying to coerce me to carry my pregnancy to term," she wrote.
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Mr. Engler had once suggested she was being paid by Mr. Manly to coerce women into making abuse claims, a comment for which he later apologized.
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"The addition of the sexually explicit content in the second draft complaint served no purpose other than to coerce Emma into a settlement," said Ms. Goldberg.
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The most recent Democratic outcry comes amid accusations that the president tried to coerce Ukraine's president to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
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But Trump really does have a fairly detailed white paper about how he plans to coerce Mexico into paying for the construction of a border wall.
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Jones admitted to authorities that he attempted to coerce minors on Facebook into providing him with the sexually explicit videos and photographs on approximately 30 different occasions.
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A series of scandals surrounding Long culminated in 2010, when four young men filed suit claiming he used his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships.
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Federal prosecutors allege that the 57-year-old used his power and influence to coerce women into forced labor and sex and were branded with his initials.
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The priest was just one of a constant stream of people, including government officials, who came to the hospital in February to coerce Lucía into giving birth.
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This, he says, is also how the cult's leaders were able to coerce congregants into financing the Irwins' lifestyles and performing free labor on the church's building.
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Prosecutors say she used her connections to coerce 50-odd conglomerates to funnel 80bn won ($603m) to two cultural foundations, K-Sports and Mir, that she controlled.
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Jones also admitted to authorities that on approximately 30 different occasions he attempted to coerce minors on Facebook into providing him with sexually explicit videos and photographs.
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Locke argued that you could coerce only public assent, not private conviction; that suppression encouraged revolt; and—a new element—that religious persecution was bad for trade.
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"I feel like they are trying to coerce me to carry my pregnancy to term," the girl said in a declaration filed in federal court last week.
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Cummins' California attorney has noted that he has no prior criminal history and argued that he did not coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth — which her family disputes.
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As Post says, the only way the judicial branch can "coerce" anybody to do anything is for the executive branch to support its interpretation of the laws.
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The studio Primal Fetish has an entire line of videos in which brothers repeatedly coerce their sisters into sex, replete with sneers of disgust and pained whimpers.
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Nobody can accuse him of trying to coerce the entire nation into thinking exactly as he does, and he makes plain that he has no such intention.
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For an act to be considered terrorism, it must appear that it was intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or try to influence political change.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE, a former Democratic congressman whose four-year term ends in January.
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Corsi last month sued Mueller for $350 million in damages, alleging illegal surveillance and attempts to coerce false testimony from the witness in the special counsel's investigation.
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Western diplomats at the United Nations have described the warning as a tactic to coerce Mr. Assad, and some said Friday that it appeared to be working.
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Most recently, the administration pushed back against Beijing's efforts to coerce foreign airlines to stop identifying Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau as separate entities on their websites.
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Yet he is expected to stop short of encouraging lawmakers to immediately reimpose sanctions, and instead try to coerce Europeans and Iranians back to the negotiating table.
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Speaking on the interview series "Untold Stories of Hip-Hop," Cardi said that the photographer attempted to coerce her into exchanging sex for coverage in the magazine.
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C.) used his position as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to "coerce or induce" a female subordinate to have a "personal relationship" with him.
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Imagine the leverage that this would give a Lyndon B. Johnson, let alone a Donald J. Trump, to coerce a large financial institution to fund his endeavors.
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His goal will be to increase international support for an effort to deprive North Korea of resources as leverage to coerce it to give up nuclear weapons.
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A Supreme Court that would reverse or gut Roe and allow the states to coerce women to carry a pregnancy to term will not ask these questions.
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Sidebar Three Muslim men say F.B.I. agents tried to use the list to coerce them into becoming informants, in violation of a federal law protecting religious freedom.
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" Robbins came over to join them, she said, and Elle felt surrounded by "big, grown men with an agenda to coerce my silence one way or another.
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The first charge was abuse of power, accusing Mr. Trump of a scheme to use the levers of government to coerce Ukraine to do his political bidding.
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Other critics alleged that Harris slow-rolled investigations while covering for crooked prosecutors, such as the Orange County D.A.s who planted snitches inside jails to coerce confessions.
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The goal, Mr. de Blasio said, is to persuade or coerce 2550,22015 of the 22016,000 New York City residents who smoke to stop doing so by 2020.
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For years I've been arguing that the real threats to free speech emerge when those in power, regardless of their ideology, try to coerce teachers and students.
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What followed was a familiar playbook: Coerce tenants to give up their valuable rent-regulated apartments with threats of eviction or offers of cash payouts, or both.
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"It's appalling to coerce confessions from civil society activists whose goal is to protect Afghan children," John R. Bass, the American ambassador, said in a Twitter post.
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This new coalition takes the name of the Final Order, and begins a campaign of terror to intimidate and coerce the systems of the galaxy to submit.
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Though other presidents have tried to coerce the Fed into accommodative monetary policy in the past, prior criticism by presidents has been less personal and less frequent.
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Mark Galli, the editor of the magazine, Christianity Today, wrote that Mr. Trump had tried to coerce a foreign leader to discredit one of his political opponents.
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Trump apparently tried to coerce a weak US ally, Ukraine, to dig up dirt on a domestic political rival with aid paid for by US taxpayer cash.
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Greitens signed a bill Friday creating a felony of threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of a private sexual image by attempting to coerce another person to refrain from action.
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And the proposals Trump has outlined to coerce Mexico into paying for the wall involve controversial measures that would still likely fail to cover the wall's full cost.
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His defense attorney previously issued a statement claiming he had "no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever," and that he didn't coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth.
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The tale goes that Berbatov was kidnapped by several henchmen belonging to gangster Georgi Iliev as he attempted to coerce him into signing for his club, Levski Kyustendil.
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In recent weeks, advisers have urged Trump to let lawmakers tackle the issue, and use the threat of executive action to coerce them to make it a priority.
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But now, according to some newly discovered documents from von Koerber's estate, Hitler did more than coerce the aristocrat into penning a bio—he did it for him.
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I coerce T. into picking it up when he goes out later today by half joking that he needs to take an active part in our birth control.
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For instance, Trump has made a big deal out of his attempts to coerce China into taking a bigger role in trying to get North Korea under control.
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And the way he used the promise of fame to coerce a dirty confession from Keene's girlfriend is clearly supposed to leave a sour taste in our mouths.
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" In particular, the suit claims TWC was "aware of Weinstein's pattern of using his power to coerce and force young actresses to engage in sexual acts with him.
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That's why she chose to use it against Chuck Palmer, who has used his influence to coerce college students into having sex with him on his book tour.
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It was during this scene that I saw a demon coerce a mother to force her young daughter to get an abortion that she clearly did not want.
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These statements represent a new model of threat for North Korea: the threat of damaging or menacing missile launches to coerce its enemies into altering their military posture.
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Coerce Abbas into beginning the hard work of creating the broad and profound changes in Palestinian society, political goals and governance that are the essential preconditions for peace.
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The legislation introduced by American lawmakers this week, defining political interference as "efforts to coerce and corrupt," mirrors the language Turnbull used last year when introducing Australia's law.
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Menendez was against the Iran Deal when it was announced, believing the coordinated sanctions that were used to get Iran to the table could still coerce more concessions.
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Instead, it is seeking to leverage the size of the U.S. economy and its influence over the global financial system to coerce European companies to follow Washington's lead.
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They even faced expectations to coerce or force their employees to work through meal breaks to keep labor costs down and generate more profits for the corporate bosses.
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Mr. Comey replied that the allegations could have been made up, but that the job of the F.B.I. was to protect the president from efforts to coerce him.
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A company news release blasted U.S. attempts to "coerce" Huawei's employees into serving U.S. interests, adding that attempts to level "unfounded accusations" against the company would be resisted.
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A company news release blasted U.S. attempts to "coerce" Huawei's employees into serving U.S. interests, adding that attempts to level "unfounded accusations" against the company would be resisted.
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The court, however, found that the government took the right steps to introduce the sweeping program, provided the public enough information, and did not coerce people to register.
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Evidence abounds that the president and his team not only attempted to solicit Russian interference in the 2016 election but sought to coerce Ukraine into interfering in 2020.
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Prime Minister Abe urged the international community to apply concerted pressure to the rogue nation in an attempt to coerce its regime into giving up its nuclear ambitions.
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We saw this recently when Saudi Arabia threatened to sell $700 billion worth of U.S. debt it holds as a way to coerce Congress into dropping certain legislation.
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Yovanovitch was a thorn in the side for Giuliani because she refused to help him coerce the Ukrainian government into digging up or manufacturing dirt against the Bidens.
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Since there is a vast array of federal grants, that would give the executive a massive club to coerce states and localities on a wide range of issues.
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Second, he argued that it was actually Senate Democrats who improperly tried to coerce the Ukrainian president last year (they didn't, but more on this in a bit).
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Biometric software may help police track down burglars, or even preempt a terrorist attack, but tech that watches us can engender fear and coerce us towards self-censorship.
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Administration officials aim to coerce Iranian leaders to fully dismantle their nuclear and ballistic missile programs and curb their support for Shiite Arab militias in the Middle East.
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Jackson's administration stood idly by and let it happen, knowing that the more Southerners harassed Native Americans, the easier it would be to coerce them into removal treaties.
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Then they did nothing for a month, as Pelosi engaged in the ridiculous pretense of holding the articles to coerce senators into calling witnesses and holding a fair trial.
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"This is a back door attempt to coerce state and local governments to carry out federal immigration enforcement," San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said at a news conference.
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This effort to coerce Ukraine into staining Mr. Biden with corruption allegations provides a ready-made — and officially United States government-sanctioned — line of attack for its disinformation operations.
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YouTube has been criticized for its inaction on Jones' channel over the past few days because he often used his connection with fans to coerce them into sending videos.
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Textbook economics suggests, though, that in a competitive labour market any attempt to coerce people into working harder than they want will fail, since workers can simply switch jobs.
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In recent weeks, advisers have urged Trump to let lawmakers tackle the issue, and only use the threat of executive action to coerce them to make it a priority.
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And, we must enlist or somehow coerce Pakistan, the nuclear-armed neighbor of Afghanistan, that is not in its best interests to assist the Taliban in their murderous campaign.
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Abusers may coerce victims into participating in criminal activity or victims may believe that committing a crime is the only way they can keep their children housed and fed.
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The stock's run began when activist fund Mantle Ridge, led by Wall Street legend Paul Hilal, formed a plan to coerce Harrison into taking the CEO position at CSX.
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The American Legion and the Park Commission argued these symbols should only be ruled unconstitutional if they coerce someone to support a specific religion or try to convert them.
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EPA has little direct leverage over states that fail to enforce environmental rules; in turn, states often have limited will or ability to coerce local governments that violate them.
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A Human Rights Watch report in September documented how National Security Agency officers routinely tortured suspects to coerce confessions or inflict punishment, in some cases inside Interior Ministry headquarters.
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While the maximum pressure campaign has relied primarily on economic tools to both coerce and punish Tehran, the deployment could signal the beginning of a change in its approach.
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Rather than fulfilling its legal obligation to protect conscience, it has instead sought to coerce health care professionals to violate their conscience and participate in procedures that end life.
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Every aspect of international relations, from military protection to trade deals to aid programs, became a carrot or a stick to coerce other states to adopt the American way.
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The Chinese are notorious for appealing to the nationalism and loyalty of their citizens to coerce them into carrying out acts of espionage, lawmakers and intelligence officials say. Sen.
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Russia, too, passed a law in 2017 that made it a crime to assist or coerce doping, though no known charges have been brought under that law to date.
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In an interview with Axios Wednesday, Kosovan Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli accused Russia of aiding in a Serbian effort to coerce African countries to revoke diplomatic recognition of Kosovo.
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That clash extends far beyond hacking: China has invoked its status as a "developing country" to erect barriers against foreign competitors, and to coerce American companies into sharing technology.
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"Traffickers use many ways to trick, coerce and manipulate," said Samantha Vardaman, vice president of Shared Hope International, a nonprofit organization that seeks to rescue victims of sex trafficking.
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But the legal principle at issue before the U.S. Supreme Court is something far grander: whether the government may coerce individuals to create custom art that violates their conscience.
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Republican senators acquitted Trump despite strong evidence that he abused the power of his office by trying to coerce a foreign country to interfere in a US presidential election.
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Websites, it turns out, employ a series of "dark patterns" meant to mislead or coerce online shoppers into making a decision that isn't always in their benefit, it says.
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The first part rests on the 2012 Supreme Court ruling that Congress's taxation powers allow it to charge the individual mandate penalty to coerce people to buy health insurance.
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ISIS militants and sympathizers have used social media for years to spread their message, as well as reach out to potential supporters and coerce them into joining the group.
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Convinced that states had a right to determine their economic and social priorities, Lincoln debated the use of military force to coerce recalcitrant states to remain in the Union.
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Prosecutors have accused Ms. Park of helping an old friend and secretive adviser, Choi Soon-sil, coerce big businesses into donating $69 million to two foundations Ms. Choi controlled.
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The lawmakers said they worry it could be used to coerce U.S. companies to move research activities to China, hand over technology or support Chinese industrial and foreign policies.
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Massachusetts is among a small group of states that does not have a law making it a crime for someone to assist or coerce another person into killing themselves.
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"One card left to play is trying to coerce the Chinese into choosing between the survival of North Korea and the trade relationship with the United States," Pollack said.
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But it&aposs a huge defeat for a lot of the Democrat interest groups because they&aposve used this money that they were able to coerce from people in politics.
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The ruling is a blow to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department, which had attempted to coerce so-called sanctuary jurisdictions into helping the Trump administration's immigration agenda.
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" Similarly, CFR President Richard Haass told the NY Times, "there is nothing about the history of sanctions that suggests they can coerce any country into doing something big and dramatic.
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Nonetheless he regularly sent text messages to the boy's mother and others, prosecutors said, even lying about the boy being injured to try and coerce the mother into meeting him.
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After an opening sequence set in Cuba that mostly squanders that locale, the gruff automaton Dom (Vin Diesel) encounters Cipher, who finds a way to coerce him into assisting her.
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Manning was jailed on March 20123 for contempt, a process crime, for which she is not being punished; rather, her time in jail is intended to coerce her into cooperating.
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Strategically speaking — as a way to coerce people into withdrawing their allegations rather than face a costly legal battle, or deter others from speaking out to begin with — it's illustrative.
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The NLRB said the changes were necessary because a small number of companies were intentionally dragging out the election process, sometimes for months, to coerce workers to vote against unions.
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Now unable to coerce cities into deputizing their cops as de facto ICE agents, Sessions is left pleading for compliance and trying to strike fear into the hearts of locals.
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Daqneesh did not say which rebel groups or media he was unhappy with, but he claimed "armed men" tried to coerce him into blaming a Russian airstrike for what happened.
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So Israel developed different policies along the way, making life harder and harder for those who stayed in an effort to coerce them into leaving, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Gerald Staberock, OMCT secretary general, said torture was used to instil fear and quash dissent, to coerce confessions or as a tool for corrupt law enforcement agents to extract bribes.
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But many tech experts claim the FBI's motivation in the Apple case was to set a "legal precedent," granting the agency the power to coerce companies into weakening their encryption.
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Taking a swipe at China, he said that the US "offers a better option" and "does not drown partners in a sea of debt...coerce" them or "compromise" their independence.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE of sexual harassment described her allegations Thursday in gripping testimony before a House committee.
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For example, a DHS foreign investment official said that potential threat actors could coerce owners into collecting intelligence about the personnel and activities of the facilities when maintaining the property.
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At disembarkations, police officers sometimes use the threat of arrest to coerce refugees into identifying whichever migrant had been tasked with driving the boat, then charge him as a smuggler.
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As it is, domestic terrorism has a definition under federal law—violence or threats intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population—but is not associated with any specific sanctions.
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When combined with the still preeminent American Navy, China cannot use its growing fleet to coerce others into obeisance in Northeast and Southeast Asia, Oceania and the Indian Ocean Rim.
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That's the same conspiracy theory that Trump and his personal attorney Giuliani have pushed in public and private for months — and allegedly sought to coerce Ukraine's new government to investigate.
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It makes it possible to capture photos with a significantly wider field of view without having to step backward or coerce people to squeeze together to fit in the frame.
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Whatever the merits of the Justice Department's argument to unlock the iPhone, there will be an issue about whether the court can effectively coerce Apple into providing the assistance demanded.
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In some cases, the reports found, the company targeted prisons, jails, and drug courts, which can legally coerce patients to take the drug as part of an alternative to incarceration.
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For people who cannot fathom sitting out a haunted house, it's important not to coerce your more cautious friends into doing something they do not want to, Dr. Kerr said.
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Ms. tenBroek later told Ms. Haines and Julie Mosley, another prosecutor, that Mr. Kinsey groped her again in the cab and tried to coerce her into checking into a hotel.
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Even more, as the subject turned to threats, payoffs and nondisclosure agreements, the interview became about power, the ability of wealthy men to pay, pressure or coerce women into silence.
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Mr. Trump has levied sweeping economic sanctions against Iran since May in an attempt to coerce its leaders into accepting strict restrictions on their military capabilities and nuclear energy program.
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If the president used the power and money of the United States to coerce a foreign nation into helping him get reelected, what of the promise senators and representatives made?
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Last week, the police attacked one university campus; after protesters occupied another campus, the police besieged it, trying to choke off their supplies and coerce them into submitting to arrest.
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The ACLU argued the statute's only purpose is to coerce a patient into opting out of having an abortion, while defenders said it helps people make a well-informed decision.
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Another factor that makes the case stand out is that, if what is alleged is true, Mr Trump attempted to coerce a foreign nation into interfering in an American election.
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The legislation would enable companies to coerce employees into participating in wellness programs that could require them to undergo genetic testing and provide genetic information about themselves and their families.
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Trump has denied trying to coerce Zelenskiy in the July 25 phone call to launch a corruption investigation into Biden and his son in return for the U.S. military aid.
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This ability to coerce is essential for many inherently public functions, such as national security, policing, justice, and some public utilities: these areas require a wider consensus, enforcement, and taxation.
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The Democrats claim Trump violated his oath of office by attempted to coerce Ukraine to investigate his political opponents in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid.
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Democrats were concerned after reading reports of the complaint's contents that Trump attempted to coerce Zelensky into investigating Biden by withholding military aid the country needs to fight Russian aggressors.
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The two articles were passed by the House to submit a president for trial, not to empower Pelosi to unilaterally use impeachment as a means to coerce an equal chamber.
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She writes: Intimate terrorism … rests on a broader spectrum of violence meant to preserve the traditional dominance of heterosexual men, and coerce those who are perceived as threatening that order.
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Separately, several priests and ex-priests have come forward alleging McCarrick used his authority to coerce them to sleep with him when they were adult seminarians studying for the priesthood.
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SINGAPORE – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says China&aposs placement of weapons systems on manmade islands in the South China Sea is designed to intimidate and coerce others in the region.
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"China cannot be allowed to use its artificial islands to coerce its neighbors or limit freedom of navigation or overflight," he said, echoing statements we heard in the earlier Trump days.
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He has explicitly accused a general in the Inter-Services Intelligence, an army-dominated agency, of running a campaign to induce or coerce PML-N candidates to defect to the PTI.
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Titling the exploit 'Efail', they wrote that they had found two ways in which hackers could effectively coerce an email client into sending the full plaintext of messages to the attacker.
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The kids held hostage at the border are, in large part, pawns in a larger game by which Trump is trying to coerce Democrats into backing sweeping reforms to legal immigration.
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The Freedom Charity, which helps victims of forced marriage, says some parents coerce LGBT children into marriage in a bid to rid them of homosexuality and save face among their community.
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After reports of many powerful people (mostly men) abusing their work authority to coerce employees into sex or to keep them quiet about sexual harassment, workplace flirtations have become more charged.
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The girls told investigators that Tatro used physical force to coerce them, on some occasions trapping them in spaces they could not exit, including the dugout on the school's baseball field.
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Democrats amassed a roster of evidence that Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine, a foreign ally at war with Russia, in order to coerce its government to investigate his political adversaries.
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Legal scholars as well as state and local officials had long maintained that court decisions, including one on Obamacare, prevent the government from pulling federal funds to coerce jurisdictions into action.
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Carraway would allegedly coerce the young children to perform sexual acts on themselves, each other and him by telling them they would be "participating in a 'club,&apos" the suit says.
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Six women have come forward to accuse billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt of sexual harassment over a decades-long period, alleging that he used his position to coerce younger women into sex.
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Intimate terrorism, in that sense, rests on a broader spectrum of violence meant to preserve the traditional dominance of heterosexual men, and coerce those who are perceived as threatening that order.
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Whether it was true or not, an important feature of disarming any effort to coerce a public official is to tell the official what the enemy might be doing or saying.
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" To try to coerce people to donate, the former president also said those who help or contribute can pilot Air Force One for a day or access classified alien files. "No?
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In the hearing, Kelly pleaded not guilty to federal charges that allege he ran an elaborate enterprise to exploit women and young girls and coerce them into committing illegal sexual activities.
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CNN said Wednesday that it did not publish the user's name out of concern for his safety, and that any claim that it tried to blackmail or coerce him was false.
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Many of the changes Sessions has made thus far track a familiar principle of federalism: the notion that the federal government's powers are limited and it can't coerce states into action.
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He walks us through how police can manipulate and coerce false confessions — by feeding people lines, lying, and rehearsing a script — to pin crimes on unsuspecting (and often less intelligent) people.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently acknowledged to Michael J. Morell, a former acting director of the C.I.A., that the administration's strategy would not coerce Iranian leaders into a friendlier stance.
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"It's a ruthlessly corporate way of trying to coerce the attention of the viewer," said Paul Grimstad, a writer and composer in New York who has scored a number of films.
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He believed that the promise of deferments could be used as a tool to coerce — or bribe — men to go to college and enter occupations defined as in the national interest.
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They depict a man who used his stature to coerce women into crossing professional boundaries, and deceived them into believing that he had the approval of senior faculty in doing so.
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JERUSALEM — Palestinian officials denounced the Trump administration's cancellation of more than $200 million in aid, accusing Washington of "weaponizing" humanitarian assistance by using it as a tool to coerce political concessions.
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Anyone who tries to "intimidate, threaten, or coerce" individuals to interfere with their right to vote can face up to a year in prison under the federal law against voter intimidation.
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And in a tear-filled moment, the Shakespeare in Love star told them she was devastated that Weinstein allegedly used his connection with her as a way to coerce other women.
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Both charges relate to his efforts to coerce Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner, and the Democratic Party as a whole.
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This gives employers the enormous power to coerce employees to engage in pro-Lukashenka political activities or to take part in elections work where they can be made to falsify results.
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He can thwart, resist and make a mockery of attempts to hold him accountable and to coerce acceptable behavior because Washington is filled with more survivalist politicians than with selfless patriots.
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But those workers are often unionized and a government employer does not have the profit incentive that might tempt a private-sector employer to coerce workers into delaying their overtime pay.
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President Trump appears to be using his official position as President to coerce the Ukrainian President to investigate possibly false corruption claims in an attempt to smear his Democratic political rival.
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But if the Supreme Court concludes that the government can coerce Jack to use his talents to express messages that violate his core beliefs, that leaves you in the danger zone.
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It's the threat of hidden traffic cameras than coerce drivers to slow down, and the threat of a terrifying IRS audit that convinces many people to not cheat on their taxes.
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As we reported ... Kevin's former pal was arrested and charged with extortion back in May 2018, for allegedly trying to coerce Hart into paying him to keep the sex tape private.
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Backed into a corner, he is trying once again to use his main leverage — the threat of weapons tests or military action — to coerce Mr. Trump into sanctions relief, analysts say.
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Plus, the natural oils found in the peels add a non-greasy, sparkly shine to stoves and sinks that'll coerce your visiting parents into thinking you actually clean on the regular.
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It's even arguing piracy can lead to "sex-tortion," where hackers who have broken into webcams coerce users into sending more indecent media of themselves on the threat of releasing it publicly.
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"This week, we've seen examples of powerful men at the highest levels of entertainment and politics from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump abusing their power to silence, bully, or coerce," he opened.
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More details on what is going on should be available down the road, though for now it looks like the feds have again failed to coerce a company into compromising its security.
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The data from the centralized spreadsheet was then used to restrict the girls' access to abortion care or coerce them into carrying to term, as VICE News reported exclusively in February 2018.
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So far, these sessions have revealed text messages that appear to support the allegations of a whistleblower who accused Trump of attempting to coerce Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden.
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While the DEZs "froze" the frontlines of conflict, the regime and Russia have strategically used the diplomatic cover to coerce the remaining opposition-held DEZs in central and southern Syria to surrender.
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The availability of video streaming and elaborate home-entertainment systems means that it is ever more difficult to coerce movie-goers from their homes to watch the latest release in the cinema.
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For investigators to label the incident an act of terrorism, according to U.S. law, it must be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence government policy through intimidation.
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" Men have often used the threat of prostate cancer to coerce women into having sex with them, arguing that, according to science, "men who don't have sex get prostate cancer and die.
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Members of the ATF essentially entrapped Randy Weaver, who they believed was associated with the Aryan Nations, for illegal firearm sales, in order to coerce him into providing information about the group.
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A former Italian model said in an interview with the New York Post over the weekend that Jeffrey Epstein tried to coerce her into sex acts in 2004, when she was 21.
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They often coerce patients by charging the patient different co-pay fees based on which pharmacy they choose because they get higher profits when a patient goes to one of their pharmacies.
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The goal of Trump's visit will be to increase international support for efforts to deprive North Korea of resources as leverage to coerce it to give up nuclear weapons, U.S. officials said.
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In a time when real-life producers are starting to answer for decades of abusing their power to assault women and coerce them into sex, it's a genre that hasn't aged well.
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Eight years ago the Obama administration began using the lure of federal funds to incentivize, pressure, and even coerce cash-strapped states to adopt a specific set of K-85033 academic standards.
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When Mr. Trump shakes the system of global trade by imposing tariffs and issuing demands, perhaps he is try to coerce other nations into engineering that system to be even more favorable.
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At that time, Mr. Nader was promoting a plan to use private contractors to carry out economic sabotage against Iran that, he hoped, might coerce it to permanently abandon its nuclear program.
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One evolutionary response is for males to use greater size to control or coerce the female and curb her power over whether, with whom, and how often she will mate and reproduce.
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It has attempted to coerce Taiwan since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, most actively in the Taiwan Straits Crises of the 1950s and later in 1995 and 85033.
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The President was accused of using his power to coerce Ukraine into dishing dirt on Democrats, including Joe Biden, a possible 2020 election rival, and then withholding evidence to cover it up.
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At the heart of the charge that Mr. Trump abused his power is the effort to coerce Ukraine into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, a possible opponent in the 2020 election.
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Today, with only 6900,2628 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, American citizens may soon be told that an additional five to ten thousand will be sufficient to coerce the Taliban to the negotiation table.
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All this has led to fears among Democrats that Trump attempted to coerce Ukraine's president to investigate a potential political rival, by threatening to withhold the funds unless an investigation was launched.
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For example, the Justice Department recently detailed how an international sex trafficking ring committed visa fraud to transport women from Thailand into the United States and coerce them into the sex trade.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE, the director the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the agencies' regulator, is rightly worried about this possibility.
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Regardless of the validity of sex addiction or how badly a patient wants to get better, mental health is not an excuse to sexually assault and shame and coerce victims into silence.
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In a counter suit, Mitsubishi said Bombardier had tried to coerce it and Seattle-based Aerospace Testing Engineering & Certification (AeroTEC) to sign no-poach agreements that would stop them from hiring Bombardier's employees.
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San Francisco officials argue in the lawsuit that "in blatant disregard of the law, the President of the United States seeks to coerce local authorities" into abandoning their sanctuary city laws and policies.
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The bill would also make it a crime to "knowingly coerce or exert undue influence" on a patient to receive the medication and criminalize the act of forging request documents for the medication.
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McCord says a specific federal domestic terrorism law would allow authorities to prosecute perpetrators as domestic terrorists when they commit violent crimes with the intention to intimidate and coerce a group of people.
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" Meanwhile, the Alliance Defending Freedom — a Christian group behind lawsuits to allow firing of transgender workers — also flipped the script, saying the Equality Act "victimizes women and empowers the government to coerce uniformity.
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Well, if we're being honest here, Cohen tried to coerce Anthony into giving up any info she possibly could about the party for Beyoncé's twins, who are reportedly named Rumi and Sir Carter.
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"Threats of violence motivated by hate and intended to intimidate or coerce our faith-based and LGBTQ communities have no place in this country," US Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich said in a statement.
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But Kirkland used that trust to coerce S.L. — a minor — into sending him nude photos of herself and performing sexual acts on him in the classroom and his car, she later told police.
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But what to do with all the music that already exists in the world — music that gave Lacey the kind of power he might have traded on to coerce and manipulate teen girls?
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Rick, of course, manages to turn the walker against Jadis to coerce her into negotiating, and she finally agrees to help — on the condition that she get one-fourth of the Saviors' supplies.
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But it is illegal to force, deceive or coerce any adult or child into sexual exploitation - also known as human trafficking - and the crime carries a prison sentence of up to 30 years.
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"Most of my clients request drugs because they want to share an extra kind of intimacy with me... casually trying to coerce bareback, for example," New York state sex worker "M" tells me.
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Although the appeal court judges agreed that the victim did not consent to sex, they said that they did not see proof that violence or intimidation was used to coerce her into sex.
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It argues that Goldman exercised "undue influence" to coerce its managers—whose financial expertise at the time was "extremely limited"—into "inherently unsuitable" trades, and that the deal was therefore an "unconscionable bargain".
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Congressional committees are overseeing an impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump held up $391 million in military aid to Ukraine in an effort to coerce Ukrainian leaders to do political favors for him.
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And the issue has vexed the last three U.S. presidents on the right mix of carrots and sticks — to induce and/or coerce — the hermit kingdom to abandon its burgeoning nuclear weapons program.
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Church leaders would coerce victims to stay and continue panhandling by telling them their children would be taken away if they left, or their families and loved ones would reject them, prosecutors said.
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Actress and founder of lifestyle brand Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, played a key role in the investigation when she told Kantor and Twohey that Weinstein tried to coerce her into a hotel room massage.
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Russia's recent interference in US and European elections, alleged assassination attempts in the United Kingdom, and use of energy supplies to coerce neighbors, extend beyond the threat of a potential conventional military confrontation.
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Yes, his campaign's official immigration platform promises that President Trump will coerce Mexico into constructing a Trump Wall, triple the number of immigration officers, and amend the US Constitution to end birthright citizenship.
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Donald Trump campaigned on the absurd lie that the United States could construct a large concrete wall across the entire US-Mexico border and coerce the Mexican government into paying for its construction.
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To hack: to study a system's flaws and emergent properties, and use them for your own ends; to instill your own instructions into a computer's memory, and coerce its microprocessor to run them.
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Worse are those who don't care what their victims want or feel, or those who, because they're the boss or just a bigger, scarier human being, coerce others and actually relish the coercion.
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In the administration's view, the Maryland cross is secular in context and not an endorsement of any particular faith, and only displays that "coerce" religious belief or adherence ought to be considered unconstitutional.
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The family "also observed with shock that the Government of Zimbabwe is attempting to coerce us to accept a program for funeral and burial" that was contrary to Mugabe's wishes, the statement said.
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The president's bungled bid to coerce Ukraine's leader into helping the Trump 2020 re-election campaign smear a rival struck "decide it at the ballot box" off the menu of reasonable opinion forever.
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" He added: "The federal government's efforts to coerce states into implementing its immigration agenda have failed repeatedly in the past, and we'll respond to their latest efforts in court at the appropriate time.
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She also apparently used her influence to coerce companies into donating nearly $70 million to two foundations she controlled, and to secure her daughter admission at one of South Korea's most prestigious universities.
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His impeachment for trying to coerce Ukraine to incriminate Democrats by withholding $391 million in security aid has only reinforced that view as he watched one official after another testify before the House.
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For example, he seemed surprised when the Chinese president explained why his country couldn't simply coerce North Korea into more agreeable behavior, and he has expressed wonderment that health care policy is complicated.
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Democratic leaders built a strong case in two weeks of televised witness hearings before the Thanksgiving break that Trump abused his power by attempting to coerce Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 election.
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Regardless of one's stance on controversial social issues, sound practical considerations and compassion for needy patients should quell cries to coerce health professionals — particularly those professionals motivated by their faith — into ideological conformity.
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Trump stands accused of illicitly using $400 million in military aid, to coerce vulnerable Ukraine, which is fighting for its life against Vladimir Putin's Russia, into investigating his potential 2020 foe Joe Biden.
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In many cases the soldiers allegedly leveraged their control over scant food supplies to coerce starving women into becoming their "girlfriends" — meaning they had to be available for sex on an ongoing basis.
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"Everyday we discover new tricks Instacart engineers deploy to coerce hardworking contractors into giving you free labor," a group of delivery workers wrote in a letter sent to Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta on Monday.
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It was a high-profile case that considered a compelling question: does the government have the right to coerce a creative professional to create expression that conflicts with his or her faith and conscience?
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The influence of Travis Scott, advertised by "Kiss It Better" collaborator Glass John in a puzzling Twitter rant about the Kanye herald trying to coerce Rihanna into making a trap album, is greatly exaggerated.
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Essentially, every time you see an ad on your timeline or in the window of your browser your personal information is being used to coerce you into doing something you might otherwise not do.
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One reason that President Trump's recent anti-sanctuary cities measure was blocked was because a federal judge ruled that the federal government may not coerce states into doing something that is its own responsibility.
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But he also said there was still sufficient evidence for convicting Trump, and that evidence "clearly proves" that Trump used his office to seek to coerce a foreign government to interfere in the election.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that fired FBI Director James Comey's written testimony confirms "troubling allegations" against President Trump, accusing him of trying to "coerce" intelligence community leaders. Rep.
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Most alarming, however, has been the effort by some to intimidate and coerce electors duly designated in a handful of states to change their vote when they cast them in less than three weeks.
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Foster was an influential voice during his time at the CMS, at one point defying a Bush administration official who tried to coerce him into providing certain Medicare prescription drug cost figures to Congress.
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Read more: Meet Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's comedian turned president who's at the center of the scandal threatening Trump's presidencyCongressional lawmakers have expressed concerns that Trump dangled military aid to coerce Zelensky to investigate Biden.
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The nuclear program, he believes, is meant not only to scare off the United States, but to one day coerce the South into accepting the North's long-stated demand: reunification on its own terms.
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Stone is also charged with trying to coerce Randy Credico , a New York media figure and a sometime friend of Stone's, into joining his efforts to interfere with the work of the House committee.
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And last September, Reagan appointee Judge Harry Leinenweber ruled that the administration could not withhold unrelated funding from "sanctuary cities" to coerce them to change their policies, another ruling rooted in conservative constitutional principles.
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Last month, the fashion blog Diet Prada revealed that photographer Marcus Hyde, who has worked with celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande, had tried to coerce a model into posing nude for him.
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In an email obtained by The Chronicle, he suggested that Rachael Denhollander, the first to publicly accuse Dr. Nassar of abuse, was being paid by her lawyer to coerce women into making abuse claims.
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"When an employer tries to coerce by making it a condition of continued employment that employees agree to a set of arbitral rules that make collective action impossible," he said, that would be unlawful.
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"We're not gonna have them coerce us into doing things that they want us to do simply because they don't want to do it them themselves," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night.
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Both charges related to his efforts to coerce Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner, his son Hunter, and the Democratic Party as a whole.
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Ms. Choi, who holds no government job, is accused of using her influence with Ms. Park to coerce dozens of businesses into donating about $70 million to two newly established foundations that she controlled.
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The district attorney, Leon A. Cannizzaro Jr., is being sued on the grounds that he used fake subpoenas to coerce witnesses to talk, and that he had witnesses who were reluctant to cooperate jailed.
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He has been thrown into the center of the impeachment storm after turning over evidence to the House citing the Trump administration and Giuliani's efforts to coerce Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son.
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The first whistleblower's damning complaint, which detailed an alleged months-long scheme to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to meddle in the 2020 election, is a demonstration of whistleblowers' unique position in exposing wrongdoing.
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The lawmakers incorporated constitutional references, reams of texts and deposition transcripts, and countless video clips to break down how Mr. Trump tried to coerce Ukraine's president into announcing politically motivated investigations into the Bidens.
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Just as the NLRA makes it illegal for companies to coerce workers trying to join a union, the law should make it illegal for unions to interfere with workers trying to leave a union.
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She's served a harsh reality check on day one when The Deep (Chace Crawford), this show's fish-talking Aquaman knockoff, uses his sway as a celebrity superhero to coerce her into a sexual encounter.
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What Washington truly seems to want is the kind of free hand it had in the 1980s to coerce one country after another into bringing its surplus with the United States down to zero.
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Chinese law officially grants religious freedom for all, including children, but regulations on education and protection of minors also say religion cannot be used to hinder state education or to "coerce" children to believe.
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"The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," wrote Mark Galli, the editor in chief.
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And in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, four priests have been accused of blackmailing women during confession, using the information to coerce them into sex, according to Sudhakaran Pillai, the head of the local crime branch.
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"Many times, I was showed nude images of myself as examples to coerce me into posing nude, and whenever I stood my ground and refused, I was criticized and judged as being difficult," she wrote.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions set off a feud between several mayors and the White House on Wednesday with his latest moves to punish sanctuary cities and coerce them into enforcing the administration's hardline immigration agenda.
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Trump's assumption that the U.S. have the economic "leverage" over China to coerce Beijing to rein in North Korea stems from a similar assumption: that a trade war will somehow only harm the Chinese economy.
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Meanwhile, "these laws were used to manipulate and coerce people to stay in abusive relationships," Tami Haught, organizing and training coordinator for the SERO Project, a group that works to end HIV criminalization, told Vox.
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Washington is consumed by the impeachment inquiry that has followed the release of the whistle-blower complaint in late September alleging that Trump administration officials and associates sought to coerce Ukraine into politically motivated investigations.
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They laid out in stark detail how the president and his underlings tried to coerce a vulnerable eastern European country into falsely smearing former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic presidential candidate last summer.
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Jonathan Todd Jackson, 41, was charged on Wednesday "with trying to coerce actor Kevin Hart to pay him for a video that was surreptitiously recorded last year," the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced.
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According to news accounts, Meadows often found herself on the other end of the barrel; the gun she used to do the deed was one her father allegedly used to taunt and coerce his family.
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Since then, the U.S., European Union (EU) and a number of other Western countries have imposed tough economic sanctions on Russia in an effort to coerce it to comply with a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine.
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"China's reclamation and militarization of disputed outposts in the South China Sea...including the use of maritime militia to intimidate, coerce, and threaten other nations, undermine the peace and security of the region," it said.
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"Forcing states to provide cash to build church property could open the floodgates to programs that coerce taxpayers to underwrite religion," said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU's program on freedom of religion and belief.
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SWIFT is trying coerce members into prioritizing cyber-security by threatening to share confidential information about security lapses that banks want to keep private, said Shane Shook, an independent security consultant who advises central banks.
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After he did not decrypt the hard drives, he was ordered in September to be "incarcerated indefinitely" until he complied with the order, not to "punish him," but to "coerce future compliance," prosecution documents said.
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"It (Apple) has launched a global attack on Qualcomm and is attempting to use its enormous market power to coerce unfair and unreasonable license terms from Qualcomm," the chipmaker said in a statement on Monday.
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Just as Trump's tweets are often used in court to undermine the case for the administration, Pelosi's comments on subpoenas to coerce concessions on "other subjects" may lead to briefs seeking to quash such subpoenas.
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After many immigrant communities rebelled, the administration canceled some of its efforts in 2014, and replaced them with a single, less intrusive one, hoping to court big cities to cooperate rather than to coerce them.
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It called on all countries to ensure sports organisations "refrain from developing and enforcing policies and practices that force, coerce or otherwise pressure women and girl athletes into undergoing unnecessary, humiliating and harmful medical procedures".
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But federal authorities added that the FBI is running a parallel investigation with potentially far-reaching implications for this and other so-called "domestic terrorists" whose motives are to intimidate and coerce the American public.
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Speaking to radio host Angie Martinez on the interview series "Untold Stories of Hip-Hop," Cardi said that the photographer at the shoot attempted to coerce her into exchanging sex for coverage in the magazine.
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In marriage, either there are psychological needs or the elders try to coerce you. 寂寞是蓝棒棒的：如果不是为了父母，我就不会结婚.
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This once-defendable requirement for the AT&T telephone monopoly, however, has metastasized into a near-limitless ability to coerce agreements from cable, media and technology firms who need the FCC's blessing for a transaction.
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So are you aware of anything that would lead you to believe that the president or members of the administration or members of the campaign could potentially be used to coerce or blackmail the administration?
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What makes the technology potentially so valuable is that no one can steal your brainprint—yet, but we've all seen Inception—or coerce someone to "use" their brainprint, as thought processes would change under coercion.
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According to news accounts, Meadows often found herself on the other end of the barrel; the gun she used to do the deed was one her father allegedly used to taunt and coerce his family.
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It called on all countries to ensure sports organizations "refrain from developing and enforcing policies and practices that force, coerce or otherwise pressure women and girl athletes into undergoing unnecessary, humiliating and harmful medical procedures".
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Leaks from depositions suggest that senior officials believe there was a long-running scheme to coerce Ukraine into investigating Biden and a conservative conspiracy theory that Kiev and not Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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Scott Smith told me that he once had to talk an executive out of trying to coerce a female manager back to his limo; the executive was drunk, and the woman was pleading for help.
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Since he was released, Mr. Moses has been trying to get his verdict formally reversed, in part by arguing, as he did at trial, that Mr. Scarcella choked and hit him to coerce a confession.
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Instead, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit brought on Tuesday in New Orleans, the papers that were disguised as subpoenas were central to a sustained and fraudulent effort by local prosecutors to coerce witnesses.
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"I don't think there are any particular safeguards to prevent people from just assembling a contact list for more malicious purposes, acquiring this information and using it to harass or coerce people," Mr. Rubinstein said.
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The committees had said they would investigate whether withholding the military aid was part of Trump's effort "to coerce" the Kiev government into launching an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.
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"Threats of violence motivated by hate and intended to intimidate or coerce our faith-based and LGBTQ communities have no place in this country," said US Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
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From sharing classified information with Russia, to allegedly trying to coerce the director of the FBI to drop an investigation, to issuing threatening tweets, the U.S. president has faced a near-constant stream of criticism.
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"[Apple] has launched a global attack on Qualcomm and is attempting to use its enormous market power to coerce unfair and unreasonable license terms from Qualcomm," Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm's general counsel, said in a statement.
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The term "soft power" was coined by political scientist Joseph Nye in the late 1980s and relates to a nation's ability to attract or persuade other nations, rather than coerce using military or economic means.
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Berman said Ray allegedly "sexually groomed" that victim beginning when she was a college student, collecting sexually explicit photos and other personal information he then used to coerce her into engaging in commercial sex acts.
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Despite the steady stream of what lawyers call "bad facts" over the past four months about his role in the alleged campaign to coerce Ukraine, Trump's approval rating continues to be remarkably durable and consistent.
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This makes it easier for them to coerce plea bargains, raises the stakes of a day in court and, by allowing different punishments for the very same underlying acts, undermines respect for the law itself.
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He just said there was nothing wrong with that, because fighting corruption abroad is a legitimate American concern; and because he says he did not seek to coerce Mr Zelensky to do as he asked.
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Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mel Watt: The agency's watchdog accused Watt in an unreleased report of 2 counts of misconduct for attempting to "coerce or induce" a relationship with a female employee seeking promotion.
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While the federal government can entice states to carry out federal policy by offering financial incentives, a decision penned by Chief Justice Roberts forbids the federal government from using conditional spending to coerce state officials.
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Choi was indicted on charges of having manipulated the president for personal financial gain, including using her relationship with Park to coerce large companies into donating almost $43 million to two nonprofit foundations Choi runs.
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And perhaps most tellingly, Facebook is testing a new post composer for its News Feed that actually shows an active camera and camera roll preview to coerce you into sharing Stories instead of a text status.
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Love's lawyers are fighting to have him tried in the UK, though Love has said he thinks the British government is trying to coerce him into incriminating himself by allowing the extradition case to go on.
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That is not to say that China does not possess other means by which to coerce or even defeat Taiwan, but the chances of a sudden and immediate victory through a massive landing operation appear remote.
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Sebelius, which allowed states to reject Medicaid expansion without the threat of losing pre-existing funds, set a precedent Trump's opponents say will prevent him from using federal money as a tool to coerce local governments.
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Compromising the smart phone that sits in the pocket of a member of Congress could yield insights into political strategies, foreign policy or even salacious information that could be used to manipulate or coerce that individual.
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The nurses, in a lawsuit that is pending, claim that the nursing home had sought a criminal investigation in order to coerce other nurses into remaining at their jobs, rather than quit, as many were contemplating.
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RELATED: Trump defends criticism of judge with Mexican heritage Trump has claimed he'll be able to coerce Mexico into paying for the wall by forcing banks to withhold remittance payments from US-based Mexicans back home.
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"If you cannot tell young people that this is a national defence imperative, it will be very difficult to coerce them," notes François Heisbourg, of the Foundation for Strategic Research, who is sceptical about the idea.
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Penn, who attended the fundraiser and bid on several pricey items when the auction stalled, handcuffed Madonna and crawled through her legs at one point as the two tried to coerce the audience to bid higher.
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The time where you might have peered over your neighbor's allotment with envious eyes at their super abundant crops when you struggle to coerce even one courgette out of a plant could be at an end.
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This fund is to be administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the form of taxpayer-backed grants for states to use to coerce insurers to stay in a rapidly deteriorating market.
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The 2 were extremely close friends for years ... which makes it all the more shocking that J.T.'s now facing 2 felony extortion counts for allegedly trying to coerce Hart into paying for a sex video.
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So are you aware of anything that would lead you to believe that the president, or the members of the administration, or members of the campaign could potentially be used to coerce or blackmail the administration?
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These businessmen possess the soft power to coerce our temporary residents — congressional leaders and presidential appointees — to learn how vital a fair and well-conceived immigration policy is to the survival of our growing culinary scene.
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Reports on the complaint — and the president's general response to it — have raised questions as to whether Trump dangled military aid over Ukraine in order to coerce it into investigating Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
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The ban was intended to coerce miners down the value-add processing chain, a policy which has borne fruit in the form of a new stream of nickel pig iron (NPI) flowing from Indonesia to China.
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"In blatant disregard of the law, President of the United States seeks to coerce local authorities into abandoning what are known as 'Sanctuary City' laws and policies," said the lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court.
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The U.S. Justice Department is urging a federal appeals court to revive a whistleblower lawsuit accusing International Business Machines Corp of defrauding the IRS in order to coerce it into signing a $265 million software contract.
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Both men have been accused of touching women against their will, of making unsolicited and sexualized comments about women's bodies, of using their power to coerce women into sex and to protect themselves in the aftermath.
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The women say that the professors used their power over their students' academic careers and future jobs to coerce them into participating in an alcohol- and sex-saturated party culture and to discourage them from complaining.
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So are you aware — anything that would believe you (ph) — to believe that the president or the members of the administration or members of the campaign could potentially be used to coerce or blackmail the administration?
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Several diplomats and N.S.C. officials have testified in the inquiry that the suspension was designed to coerce Zelensky; Sondland's e-mail excerpts suggest that Pompeo may have been briefed on this part of the pressure campaign.
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"The prospect of trade action on aluminum may be sufficient to coerce improved behavior of bad actors ... it remains important for the President to continue to communicate the negative consequences of unfair trade practices," Mattis said.
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"The defendant's threats of violence -- which were motivated by hate and intended to intimidate or coerce our faith-based and LGBTQ communities -- have no place in this country," the US Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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Both men have been accused of touching women against their will, of making unsolicited and sexualized comments about women's bodies, of using their power to coerce women into sex and to protect themselves in the aftermath.
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It's based on the 2015 ProPublica article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," in which an 18-year-old girl reports her assault only to be called a liar by the police, who coerce her into recanting.
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We should fully expect that the PRC's efforts to coerce Taiwan through diplomatic, economic and military measures will accelerate in the years to come, and that these efforts will include an attempted invasion of the island.
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Though Trump's efforts to coerce Ukraine's president became public thanks to a whistleblower, some White House aides in October told reporters that they suspected Bolton might be the source behind other damaging leaks about the scandal.
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"The facts in this instance are unambiguous: the president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," Galli writes.
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When oil prices are high, exporting countries in the Middle East and Africa, and others like Russia and Venezuela can use oil as an economic weapon, exploiting other oil dependence to coerce and to extract concessions.
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A social media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for concocting a scheme to violently coerce a stranger into giving up a web domain name, the US Department of Justice announced today.
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Several time, the film illustrates how the threat of the electric chair is used to coerce and intimidate people who have not even been convicted (McMillian was put on death row a year before his trial).
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A strategy for pushing back on Iran in Syria should attempt to coerce and constrain Iranian actions without escalating to full scale war, which is exactly what the Iranians have been doing to the United States.
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President Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection campaign, withholding official acts from the government of Ukraine in order to coerce and secure political interference in our domestic affairs.
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President Trump's persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security.
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That has left Jackson to figure out how to shop Anthony to other teams for something the Knicks can claim as a victory, while also trying to persuade — or coerce — Anthony to accept such a deal.
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The 29-year veteran of government service systematically dismantled Trump's repeated denials that he sought to leverage American military and diplomatic might to coerce an ally into a coordinated campaign to damage his potential 22006 rival.
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"We are deeply concerned by the use of illegal sanctions, whose effect falls most heavily on the poorest and most marginal sectors of society, to coerce political and economic change in a sister democracy," the letter said.
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And then finally, as far the Rhodes in the final administration, nobody in the Trump administration is doing what Obama did in trying to coerce U.S. banks to violate U.S. law to facilitate liquidity for the Iranians.
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The Trump administration has been pressing China for specific commitments for sweeping changes to protect intellectual property rights, end cyber-theft of trade secrets and practices that coerce U.S. companies to turn over technology to Chinese firms.
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"We believe this is a threat blatantly deployed in an attempt to coerce DVMT stockholders to vote in favor of the merger, or else risk the unknown consequences of the forced IPO conversion," Icahn said on Thursday.
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"Families need support to diversify their crops, not prohibition — you can't coerce families into not being hungry," said Sanho Tree, a drug policy expert at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning think tank.
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Eventually, Bron is sent off with Sour Face Tarly (aka Sam's dad) to coerce farmers to give up their harvests, which is basically what Sansa wanted to do in the North, let's call a spade a spade.
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Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz countered this argument at the time, suggesting a president may use his power to coerce political support from a foreign government, so long as he believes his reelection is in the national interest.
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I responded that we were not investigating him and the stuff might be totally made up but it was being said out of Russia and our job was to protect the President from efforts to coerce him.
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Last week prosecutors accused Ms Park of conspiring to coerce 50-odd companies to funnel 80bn won ($70m) to two foundations, Mir and K-Sports, controlled by Choi Soon-sil, a confidante indicted for abuse of power.
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Whether you're in search of a new training shoe to coerce you back to the track or you simply need a comfy option to kick around in this summer, you can't go wrong with this pink pack.
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Her story — presented in the form of a New York Times op-ed — stands out, as it goes beyond a singular incident to reveal the systemic power Weinstein allegedly wielded in order to intimidate and coerce her.
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He stood his ground in the face of bullying by China, which organised boycotts of South Korean firms in an effort to coerce Mr Moon into sending home American anti-missile batteries that it does not like.
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Cash Express LLC, which operates more than 300 storefront lenders in southern U.S. states, made empty threats to ruin customers' credit scores as a way to coerce payment, the CFPB concluded in a settlement announced on Wednesday.
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This new rule takes direct aim at another favorite tactic of traffickers: they lend money or give something of value to their victims, but then use that debt to coerce victims into commercial sex or forced labor.
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From these experiences, one lesson in particular stands outs: human rights defenders and journalists are a canary in the coal mine for the attacks used to steal military secrets, coerce perceived foreign adversaries, and undermine critical infrastructure.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Inversion of Canada's yield curve by the most in nearly two decades is threatening to coerce the Bank of Canada to cut interest rates rather than risk an economic downturn, portfolio managers said on Wednesday.
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Specifically, this legislation should make it a crime for a person to commit, attempt, or conspire to commit an act of violence intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence government policy or conduct.
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A New York Times report revealed that Epstein used his connection to Les Wexner, the CEO of Victoria's Secret's parent company L Brands, as a way to coerce victims into sexual acts by promising them modeling jobs.
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Numerous women told the publication that Crist had used his platform as a semi-successful Christian comedian to coerce them into spending one-on-one time with him, which in some cases, resulted in unwanted sexual advances.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday Turkey should not try to coerce either Greece or Europe in its attempts to get support for a plan to resettle Syrian refugees in northern Syria.
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Since Ms. Tsai's inauguration two years ago, China has been using diplomatic, economic and military means to coerce Ms. Tsai into stating that Taiwan is a part of China, but she has shown no signs of capitulating.
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If the FBI receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, employ covertly an American on behalf of the foreign power, that's the basis on which a counterintelligence investigation is opened.
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The Interpreter TORONTO — As President Trump disrupts alliances across the map, nearly every level of government in Canada has taken on new duties in a quietly audacious campaign to cajole, contain and if necessary coerce the Americans.
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That is true, but when other presidents have pressured counterparts and even held up American assistance to coerce cooperation, it has generally been to achieve certain policy goals — not to advance the president's personal or political agenda.
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Congress should restore to judges their ability to ensure sensible and fair sentences—and it should take away from prosecutors their ability to coerce pleas and to punish with much higher sentences those who refuse to plead.
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Khosla&aposs attorneys wrote in the complaint that "this case involves a concerted effort by state and local officials to single out, coerce, and harass one coastal property owner for refusing to cede its private property rights."
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The investigation provides a stark counterpoint to Trump's own attempt to coerce Ukraine's president to announce an investigation of his political rival, and what it reveals could deepen the controversy over Trump's actions beyond his impeachment trial.
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Mr. Weinstein, they told jurors, was a giant in Hollywood, known for Oscar-winning films including "Shakespeare in Love" and "Pulp Fiction," who had used his influence and physicality to overpower and coerce women into sexual encounters.
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Lucas Guttentag, a DHS senior counselor during the administration of former President Barack Obama, says the subpoena power should not be used to coerce state and local governments to participate in Trump's immigration crackdown against their will.
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But if Trump used his power to try to coerce a foreign leader into influencing US elections, it could precipitate the worst political crisis of a presidency that has been mired in notoriety from its first hours.
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It was also an early verdict on the question of whether the White House can coerce cities and counties into helping federal immigration agents detain and deport immigrants who are not authorized to be in the country.
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Lindsie spilled the tea on her dark meeting with her father, in which she says he tried to coerce her cooperation in his state tax case, but instead, ended up scaring her enough she went to cops.
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" The complaint stated that the magazine had "deliberately distorted news stories, blatantly staged photographs, and ruthlessly silenced opposition in furtherance of its aims to coerce the public and the fashion industry into acceding to its unconscionable demands.
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This would put him at the center of guiding and advising policy for some of Trump's top priorities, particularly efforts to coerce police into cracking down on unauthorized immigration and ramp up programs that encourage racial profiling.
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Within 18 months, Joe would coerce Rosemary to undergo a debilitating prefrontal lobotomy, the effects of which would require Rosemary to spend the rest of her life with round-the-clock care in an institution for the disabled.
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Evicting US forces from the region would allow Iran to realize its primary goal of establishing its dominance over the Persian Gulf, positioning it to coerce and extract maximum political and economic concessions from neighboring Arab oil producers.
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But, by essentially having this huge pot of money that police departments rely on, and threatening to not give it to them, the administration and Jeff Sessions is able to coerce them into carrying out the government's agenda.
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The US charge d'affaires in Kiev was depicted in text message exchanges with the President's men as saying it would be "crazy" to withhold military aid to the former Soviet state to coerce it into offer political favors.
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Holding up authorized military aid to Ukraine in an effort to coerce the government into smearing Joe Biden and validating an absurd conspiracy theory that aims to exonerate Russia for 2016 election interference is a perfectly impeachable offense.
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He has written numerous books instructing men on how to coerce women into having sex, including Bang: The Pickup Bible That Helps You Get More Lays and several travel guides detailing how to seduce women in foreign countries.
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And Lynn Roy, in a statement read by a prosecutor, said she prays that her son's death "will save lives some day," voicing her support for a state law making it a crime to coerce or encourage suicide.
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It's a dilemma that the George W. Bush and Obama administration faced, which is that the United States needs the help of the Pakistanis in a number of ways and can only cajole or coerce them so far.
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"It is clear to me that the administration was so uncomfortable with this work, and my disclosures, that I was reassigned with the intent to coerce me into leaving the federal government," Clement wrote in his op-ed.
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He wanted to coerce the newly elected president of Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into the 2016 election and the Bidens, as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. launched his 2020 campaign to defeat Mr. Trump.
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North Korea considers nuclear weapons equally important as economic growth so "without the nukes as cover, should it ever want to coerce or invade the South again, it really has nothing to bail themselves out," according to King.
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The likely source of the disagreement is that, like Trump, Kim believes that "maximum pressure" brought his adversary to the negotiating table and that a return to pressure tactics may be necessary to coerce Washington back to negotiations.
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What should be an accepted fact remains a provocative topic, as the Turkish government continues to ignore or deny the events and, as it has for a century, coerce businesses and push other governments to do the same.
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It desires a return to spheres of influence where great powers decide the future of their neighbors, the use of trade as a tool to coerce others, and the erosion of democratic norms that challenge his regime's legitimacy.
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"I wanted to do something that would make things better for women now, as they are tonight or on Saturday night, facing men that are attempting to sexually coerce or assault them," Senn tells Broadly over the phone.
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"It is beyond dispute that, at a minimum, the Constitution guarantees that government may not coerce anyone to support or participate in religion or its exercise," the judges of the Second Judicial Department of the Appellate Division wrote.
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If Afghanistan and Pakistan started using force jointly against the Taliban, and if the United States simultaneously stepped up airstrikes and drone strikes against holdout Taliban, then it might be possible to coerce the Taliban to the table.
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"Donald Trump tried to coerce Ukraine into lying about Joe Biden and a major bipartisan, international anti-corruption victory because he recognized that he can't beat the vice president," said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign.
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Both articles of impeachment relate to his efforts to coerce Ukraine to launch politically motivated investigations targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic frontrunner and Trump&aposs political rival, and the Democratic Party as a whole.
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" Referring to Mr. Giuliani's trip last week, and Mr. Trump's promotion of it, Mr. Goldman said the president was making a "persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election.
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You know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $20163 billion dollars of US. aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars.
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"President Trump directed a months-long scheme to solicit foreign help in his 2020 reelection campaign, withholding official acts from the government of Ukraine in order to coerce and secure political interference in our domestic affairs," Goldman said.
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Liberals agree that it is generally wrong to coerce people, to seize control of their bodies or force them to act against their will (though they disagree among themselves on many, many whys and hows of the matter).
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"President Trump's persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections, and to our national security," Goldman continued.
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A sharply dressed lawyer represented his Muslim-American clients before a three-judge panel in New York recently, claiming that because federal authorities tried to coerce them into becoming informants, they had the right to receive monetary damages.
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At a minimum, DHS must publish clear policies to ensure that any such screening is a knowing and voluntary opt-in choice, and that border agents do not coerce or trick any traveler into surrendering their biometric privacy.
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The first alleges that Trump abused power by withholding nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine in a bid to coerce its President into investigating Democrats, including his possible 2020 opponent Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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" Muzzy Rosenblatt, the president and chief executive of the Bowery Residents' Committee, a nonprofit organization that sends outreach workers through the subway system and major commuter rail stations, said of police officers: "They are not there to coerce.
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Between levies on steel and aluminum imports, redesigning the North American Free Trade Agreement and a bitter tit-for-tat economic skirmish with China, Trump has tried to coerce allies into new agreements that narrow the American trade deficit.
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He also accuses the special counsel of attempting to coerce him to say under oath that he was a liaison between Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in the publication of emails stolen from Democrats.
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So Garrett settles on a stuffed hedgehog toy, which Strudel theatrically tosses above her head, as Garrett uses what she calls her "magic wand" (a Pup-Peroni stick) to coerce Strudel into politely sitting on the white background paper.
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Many Democrats believe that there is sufficient evidence in those documents alone to prove that Trump abused his power and committed high crimes and misdemeanors by trying to coerce Kiev into providing dirt on possible Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
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The whole thing was fake — a scheme orchestrated by then–SAPD officers Emmanuel Galindo, now 32, and Alejandro Chapa, now 31, who were convicted in March 2017 of attempting to coerce eight women into sex and sexually assaulting two.
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A body was found Thursday after nine police officers were injured in an explosion on Wednesday at a Connecticut property where officers were trying to coerce a man who had allegedly held his wife hostage, according to multiple reports.
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This point will be important in determining whether the case gets deemed a domestic terrorism case; domestic terrorism includes criminal acts that are dangerous to human life and appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.
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"The Peace Cross does not violate the Establishment Clause because it does not coerce religious belief, practice, or financial support—whether through compelled profession or observance, excessive proselytization, or other historically grounded means," the group wrote in its brief.
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It also expanded its definition of terrorism to include not just acts of violence attended to achieve a political or ideological aim, but also attempts at violence, especially when aimed at civilians with the intent to coerce and intimidate.
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"He suggested that Congress pass legislation making it a crime for a person to "commit, attempt, or conspire to commit an act of violence intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence government policy or conduct.
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"He also suggested Congress pass legislation making it a crime for a person to "commit, attempt, or conspire to commit an act of violence intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to influence government policy or conduct.
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Lilly Wachowski, 48, said in a statement in Chicago's Windy City Times that she decided to make her gender reassignment public after a journalist from Britain's Daily Mail attempted to coerce her to do an interview about her transition.
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The ever-present apps we prod at on buses and in public bathrooms coerce us into a grim back and forth, constantly urging us to create ever-more appealing versions of ourselves to offer up in the romantic marketplace.
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"Hunter Biden, for example, can't tell us anything about whether the president withheld military aid, whether he withheld that aid to coerce Ukraine to conduct political investigations, or why he wouldn't meet with the president of Ukraine," Schiff said.
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"The conditions on Nauru — refugees' severe mental anguish, the intentional nature of the system, and the fact that the goal of offshore processing is to intimidate or coerce people to achieve a specific outcome — amounts to torture," it added.
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"As the district court correctly held, Page failed to allege any facts suggesting that the articles in question were intended to intimidate or coerce civilians, influence government policy, or affect government conduct," the appeals court wrote in an order.
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Sondland, who had a direct line to Trump, assured fellow ambassadors in September text messages obtained by lawmakers that Trump was not attempting to coerce Ukraine to do his bidding by withholding a White House visit or military aid.
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"It is part of the administration's campaign to coerce and bully state and local governments to adopt policies it prefers," said Cody Wofsy, a lawyer at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, which filed a brief opposing the administration's conditions.
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In this case, the evidence clearly proves the President used the weight of his office and that of the United States government to seek to coerce a foreign government to interfere in our election for his personal political benefit.
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He also found no basis to conclude that the so-called SALT cap was an effort to coerce states through "economic dragooning" into lowering their own taxes and cutting services, in line with the federal government's own policy preferences.
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The House has charged the president with abuse of power over his attempt to coerce a foreign country to investigate one of his political opponents, and obstruction of Congress over his attempt to stonewall lawmakers' inquiry into that matter.
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The President will skip free despite strong evidence to suggest that he abused a public trust by trying to coerce a foreign power -- with millions of dollars in taxpayer cash -- to play a role in a US presidential election.
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It was his committee that spearheaded the Democrats' impeachment investigation, which centered on allegations that Trump had withheld $391 million in foreign aid to Ukraine in an effort to coerce that country's leaders to investigate the president's political opponents.
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The U.S. effort to coerce European foreign policy through tariffs, a move one European official equated to 'extortion,' represents a new level of hardball tactics with the United States' oldest allies, underscoring the extraordinary tumult in the transatlantic relationship.
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The call between the two heads of state has sparked an impeachment inquiry among delegates at the House, who claim Trump and his staff tried to coerce Ukraine into investigating political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
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" Chris Lu, who managed President Obama's first cabinet, told Motherboard that the "potential White House coverup" and the attempt to coerce Ukraine into investigating Biden is "already the biggest scandal of the Trump administration, and that's saying a lot.
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China has sovereign rights in the South China Sea and it is not realistic for the United States to use this kind of action to try to coerce it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing.
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"I repsonded that we were not investigating him and the stuff might be totally made up but it was being said out of Russia and our job was to protect the President from efforts to coerce him," Comey wrote.
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The lawsuit against her reads as a portrait, not of a macho predator type, but of a desperately lonely person with the power to coerce others, on pain of professional and psychic obliteration, into being her friends, or worse.
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Much of Exxon's case was based on a March 2016 news conference with the attorneys general and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, which it called a bid to coerce its adoption of policies that they and climate change activists preferred.
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Some men will argue that their opinion on abortion doesn't matter, but this is disingenuous, especially since many men abandon women they have impregnated and others sometimes coerce women toward abortion, making them feel like they have no other option.
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Pence also told CNBC that Trump has made it clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping the United States must see structural change to China's practices on intellectual property protection and those that coerce U.S. companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms.
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Federal ethics standards state that an employee "shall not encourage, direct, coerce, or request a subordinate to use official time to perform activities other than those required in the performance of official duties or authorized in accordance with law or regulation."
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Graham was all for impeaching Bill Clinton for lying over sex with an intern and he won't lift a finger to judge Trump for using taxpayer money to coerce a foreign leader to intervene in our election on Trump's behalf.
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High school football player Caleb (Briggon Snow) can feel others' emotions; college artist Chloe (Anna Lore) can hear people's thoughts; shy Sam (voiced by Shippen) can travel through time; smarmy Damien (Charlie Ian) can coerce people into doing his bidding.
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How smoothly John Cassavetes' character, who's made a deal with satanists in exchange for a career boost, shifts between tactics as he attempts to coerce his wife into choking down the substance he knows is going to knock her out.
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He was like an older brother to me — the last person I would have expected to trap me in the back room of a punk party and drunkenly coerce me to have sex with him after I'd come out as gay.
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Status: Incarcerated; 80-year sentenceGuevara's alleged misconduct: Beating, coerced confession Rivera accuses Guevara of chaining him to a wall and repeatedly striking him in the neck and otherwise physically intimidating him in order to coerce a confession, according to court papers.
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Elizabeth Thomas' father believes Tad Cummins is unequivocally a kidnapper — despite a claim by the 50-year-old former teacher's lawyer that he didn't force or coerce the teenage girl to flee with him from Tennessee more than a month ago.
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Everything about the set-up here feels like a man in great power using it to coerce young women into having sex with him, which is a common thread through many of the stories of groupies from the '60s and '70s.
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The Collective notes that bail is often used to "coerce people to plead guilty," noting that people held in pretrial detention are 14 percent more likely to be found guilty — and nearly 11 percent are more likely to plead guilty.
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"We can&apost coerce them, because family planning is voluntary and is supposed to be based on human rights, and we want to keep on engaging them," said Placid Mihayo, an assistant government commissioner in charge of sexual and reproductive health.
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The documentary enjoys an advantage: it can simply raise questions about crucial issues such as what the police did to coerce confessions, or whether the boys were involved in other crimes that night (including attacks on cyclists and another jogger).
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It demonstrates how difficult it can be to report on controversial topics and the extent governments will go to mislead and coerce, as well as hammering home how the slightest of opportunities can lead to major breakthroughs or new information.
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Washington has demanded that Beijing implement stronger protections for intellectual property rights and end policies that it says coerce U.S. companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms in exchange for access to the Chinese market - practices that Beijing has denied.
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Speaking at a separate briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China has sovereign rights in the South China Sea and it is not realistic for the United States to use this kind of action to try to coerce Beijing.
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A far trickier thing for Tyndall is figuring out the best way to allay fears about people selling the pills off in the suburbs, or even worse, facing violence and threats from drug dealers who coerce them into handing them over.
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"Like you, I'm sure, I was appalled when I saw the video, shot on the set of A Dog's Purpose in Winnipeg in October 2015, of a dog trainer trying to coerce a frightened German [Shepherd] into a pool," Polone begins.
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Similarly, the drought in Somalia from 2011 to 2013, and the resulting famine, led to political instability which the terrorist group Al-Shabaab exploited to coerce and tax international relief agencies and to withhold food from those it deemed uncooperative.
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Noble's lawsuit alleges that Weinstein "was able to force or coerce Kadian into sexual activity in his hotel room because of his promise to her of a film role and use of his influence on her behalf" in France in 2014.
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Online public accommodations laws should protect civil rights in two key ways: First, it is illegal to interfere with, threaten, coerce, or otherwise impede a person's use of a public accommodation because of their immutable characteristics, such as race or religion.
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"These propositions that the prosecution would set out to show a group of people set out to coerce and bully people into behaving in a particular way are simply not reflected in the evidence that you have heard," Purnell said.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE, who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is being investigated for allegedly sexually harassing an employee at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
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Trump reportedly ordered his administration to withhold a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine days before the conversation with Zelensky on July 25 — prompting allegations that he used the aid package to coerce Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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" The US Code of Federal Regulations defines it as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
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This would be their ultimate vindication that the nuclear deal, signed in 2015 between the United States, Iran and European powers, was simply a ploy by the United States to coerce Iran into negotiations, only to then destroy their country.
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"He attempted to coerce or induce the PMO Manager to engage in a personal relationship with him by suggesting or implying he would use his official authority to assist her in attaining an executive position with FHFA," the watchdog report states.
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Ms. Zellner, who is based in Chicago and has helped exonerate 17 people of wrongful convictions, said she was motivated to take Mr. Avery's case partly because "Making a Murderer" showed the public that law enforcement officials can coerce false confessions.
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"We heard complaints from the community that some officers target members of a vulnerable population — people involved in the sex trade — to coerce sexual favors from them in exchange for avoiding arrest, or for cash or narcotics," the investigators wrote.
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For conduct outside the judge's presence, the power to impose a penalty is more limited, and depends on whether it is intended to punish the person, which would be a criminal case, or coerce compliance with an order, which is civil.
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Once a child is old enough to speak, a second opportunity presents itself for a triangle to form: Parents are able to criticize one another to the child, perhaps to relieve stress or coerce their offspring to choose a side.
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The benignly named Clean Power Plan to coerce states to redesign their electric sector around low- to zero-carbon intensity instead of cost and reliability may be the most expansive arrogation of power by a single agency in U.S. history.
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We must seriously consider the possibility that the North's current leader, Kim Jong-un, is preparing to use nuclear weapons to drive American forces out of South Korea and coerce Seoul — even at the risk of fighting a limited nuclear war.
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"Regarding our strong ties with a democratic Taiwan, I reiterated the U.S. policy has not changed and that we are concerned about China's increasing efforts to coerce others, constraining Taiwan's international space," Mr. Pompeo said, notably, in opening remarks to journalists.
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"Black Mirror" was first concerned about media, in episodes like "The National Anthem" (in which kidnappers coerce the British prime minister into having sex with a pig on live TV) and "The Waldo Moment" (a crude cartoon character runs for office).
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It is alarming that, in a system theoretically built around transparency and truth seeking, police and prosecutors have such outsize power to surveil, search, detain, bully, coerce and nearly destroy a person without producing evidence sufficient to secure a conviction.
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They were protesting against Mr Trump's decision to abandon America's Syrian Kurdish allies, not the foreign-policy scandal for which he will probably soon be impeached: his effort to coerce Ukraine into launching a bogus corruption investigation into Joe Biden.
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The lawyers are implying that even if Mr. Trump did abuse his power to conduct foreign policy by trying to coerce Ukraine into announcing investigations that could help him in the 2020 election, the Senate should acquit Mr. Trump anyway.
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The President also stepped on Congress' power of the purse by allegedly withholding $400 million in military aid granted to Ukraine by lawmakers in order to try to coerce its leaders to investigate his potential political opponent in Joe Biden.
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In seeking a warrant for Ms. Choi's formal arrest, the prosecutors told a court in Seoul, the capital, that she had used her influence with Ms. Park to coerce large companies into donating nearly $70 million to two foundations she controlled.
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After a six-week trial, jurors took four days to convict him after hearing the testimonies of six women, who provided harrowing accounts of how Weinstein used his power and influence to coerce them into nonconsensual and degrading sexual encounters.
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The impeachment trial has helped establish that this was probably the case last summer when Trump allegedly tried to coerce Ukraine into announcing an investigation of the former vice president by freezing vital military assistance and withholding a White House meeting.
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And this last incident, the president's attempts to coerce the president of Ukraine to provide investigative help to damage a potential political opponent — Joe Biden — is so clear and brazen that Congress has no choice but to move for impeachment.
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As the Obama administration has taken the ability to coerce such extractions from merging parties to an art form, it should come as no surprise that the barbarians are already at the gates in the AT&T/Time Warner deal.
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"The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, wrote in the editorial.
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They reveal a president fascinated with raw military might, which he sees as synonymous with America's standing in the world and as a tool to coerce powerful rivals, such as China and Iran, which appear to be his primary concern.
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By this time, the President was pushing on another pressure point to coerce Ukraine to announce the investigations: the hold on the vital military assistance that the President had put in place for more than a month, still without any explanation.
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"Attempting to coerce a foreign government into digging up dirt on a political opponent, then trying to cover it up by unlawfully refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint to Congress, crosses a red line," Johnson said in a statement Tuesday.
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Mr. Samson, 77, admitted in federal court in July that he had used his power as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to coerce United into running the route even though it was not profitable.
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"The facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," wrote CT editor-in-chief Mark Galli.
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"Trump's persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security," Goldman said during Monday's hearing.
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If that happens, then the manner in which violations of administrative regulations have been used as the basis for criminal charges could be substantially changed, making it more difficult to use the threat of prosecutions to coerce settlements from corporations.
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Democrats said Trump held back $391 million in security aid intended to combat Russia-backed separatists and a coveted White House meeting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as leverage to coerce Kiev into interfering in the 2020 election by smearing Biden.
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Multiple witnesses have now testified that Trump withheld military aid to the former Soviet state that is in a state of war with Russia, in a bid to coerce it into opening an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
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But it was instead used by Jackson and other government officials to coerce and force Native Americans to leave their homes — without the proper help to overcome the weather, disease, and other horrors that would plague them on their journey.
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" But the editorial criticized Trump, saying "[T]he facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents.
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The rally took place days after a German paper published leaked tapes showing how an accused drug trafficker in Durres told Socialist officials how he planned to coerce opposition backers to vote for them and help a friend become a lawmaker.
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Last week, Galloway issued a statement defending his client, claiming he has "no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever," and that he didn't coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth, Cummins' former student at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee.
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UPDATE: Google has apparently reprogrammed its Home devices to not be activated by Burger King's ad, however it has not commented on the commercials or the fast food chain's attempt to coerce a marketing stunt from the tech company's relatively new gadget.
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The series comes back amid a push toward restrictive anti-abortion laws, which have made the image of a society that seeks to control and coerce women, for many, feel less like the stuff of science fiction, and more a cautionary tale.
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Last week two dozen states, counties, and cities sued the Trump administration over the rule as well, in a federal court in Manhattan, arguing that the rule aimed to "coerce" states into limiting access to abortion, assisted suicide, and transgender health services.
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"If there's any question about a source of Wikileaks being threatened, people can be assured that this organization will go after anyone who may have been involved in some kind of attempt to coerce or possibly kill a potential source," Assange said.
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Many Democratic lawmakers, as well as many former prosecutors not involved in the investigation, have said the alleged order by the president to fire Mueller and attempt to coerce McGahn to lie about it could amount to committing the crime of obstruction.
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United States, which the court held, in an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia, that the federal government could not coerce county law enforcement officials from Arizona and Montana to conduct background checks on handgun purchasers while the government assembled a nationwide database.
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They do so by treating the border as a more legally lenient territory for the US government, allowing agents to coerce detainees into handing over access without the lawful use of a warrant or the presence of any form of probable cause.
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Joseph Franco, a research fellow at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies who has worked with several Philippine military chiefs, said that early last year, the Mautes projected themselves as followers of Islamic State, or IS, to "spook and coerce the Pansars".
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The court did not endorse a new more permissive test proposed by the American Legion veterans' group, which joined the case in defense of the cross, that religious displays on public land be struck down only if they coerce people into practicing religion.
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Confident that he can coerce Stearn with the scandalous revelation that Stearn has a second family in New Jersey, Chuck instead finds that Stearn has casually unlocked his smartphone and has sent an email that will destroy his own marriage and family.
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According to Noble's lawsuit, Weinstein "was able to force or coerce Kadian into sexual activity in his hotel room because of his promise to her of a film role and use of his influence on her behalf" in Cannes, France, in 2014.
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Unlike the quota system proposed by the European Commission, the matching system would neither coerce countries to take in refugees against their will, nor would it require an European Union-wide agreement over the total number of asylum slots offered by the Union.
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" Still, Life Network's site seems to suggest that its clinics use ultrasounds to try to coerce women into continuing their pregnancies: "Through our pregnancy centers we have the opportunity to see God use the miracle of ultrasound to change and save lives.
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"If the FBI receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, employ covertly an American on behalf of the foreign power, that's the basis on which a counterintelligence investigation is opened," Comey told committee Chairman Richard Burr.
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However some of Kampala's clubs are unsafe for younger girls because of older men who, according to the artist, "take advantage of them and coerce them into leaving home and getting married... there's lots of older men dating girls younger than their daughters".
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British actor Will Poulter, meanwhile, plays the most sadistic of the cops, who pressures and cows his peers into playing along, which includes participating in a perverse "death game" designed to coerce their suspects into giving up information that they don't have.
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Donald Trump's lame-ass university is under fire again for claims made by former students and teachers that the school used some seriously manipulative tactics to coerce pupils into giving their instructors perfect scores on graduation surveys, the New York Times reports.
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Conversely, the veteran Democratic Congressman John Conyers announced his retirement on Monday, in the wake of revelations that he had settled a case with a former staffer who accused him of trying to coerce her into sex, among other instance of sexual misconduct.
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L Brands subsequently hired outside legal counsel to investigate the company's own ties to Epstein following reports that Epstein had used his connection to Wexner as a way to coerce women and girls into performing sexual acts by promising them modeling jobs.
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Ms. Choi, 60, has also been accused of using her influence with Ms. Park to plant her associates in the government, including the presidential office, and to coerce big businesses to donate millions of dollars each to the two foundations she controls.
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The picture also would also have to be shared for personal gain; with the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the subject; or with "reckless disregard" as to whether the person pictured would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened or coerced.
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This cap is unconstitutional – going well beyond settled limits on federal power to impose an income tax, while deliberately targeting New York and similar states in an attempt to coerce us into changing our fiscal policies and the vital programs they support.
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And while the recently appointed New York attorney general decries the potential for the change in the federal tax code to "coerce" the state into cutting taxes, real economic conditions may provide all the persuasion that state lawmakers in high-tax states need.
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But my desire to destigmatize sex-working mothers came at a price: I received death threats, strangers have called Child Protective Services on me, and I've even been accused of practicing Satanic witchcraft in order to coerce children into the sex industry.
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As drafted, the bills would establish domestic terrorism as a standalone crime defined as committing murder, kidnapping, assault, or creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury by destroying property with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilians or influence government policy.
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"He's proven that he's terrified of looking Joe Biden in the eye, even going as far as to get himself impeached when he was caught trying to coerce a foreign country into lying about the Vice President," Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said.
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But the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has reversed Obama's policy of detente, reinstating such limits and sanctions in what it says is an attempt to coerce the communist government into reform and abandoning support for leftist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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In addition to her affidavit, had anyone investigated further after she recanted, they might have learned how Rocky had threatened his family once with Michelle's grandfather's gun, or how he'd sometimes take the children as leverage to coerce Michelle into obeying him.
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In October 2018, Hong Kong officials refused to renew the work visa of the Asia editor of The Financial Times, Victor Mallet, in what appeared to be an effort by the government to coerce foreign journalists to limit their activities and reporting.
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The letter said their mother, Sandra Han, was detained on criminal charges in China and the family's New York-based attorney believed they were being used as human collateral to coerce their father, Liu Changming, to return to China to face fraud charges.
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He could withhold execution of sanctions on Russia for interfering in the last election to induce or coerce Russia to interfere in the next one," Schiff, one of the impeachment managers who will make the case against Trump, said on "This Week.
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But if Mr. Weinstein were to take the stand, prosecutors would quite likely have tried to elicit testimony that would have portrayed him as a bullish, overbearing figure who had used his influence in the industry to coerce women into unwanted sexual encounters.
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Let's be clear: Joe Biden appears to be completely innocent of any wrongdoing in this case, while Trump tried to use the power of the federal government and almost $400 million in taxpayer money to coerce Ukraine into meddling in a U.S. election.
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All but two of those tweets are in defense of a July 2019 call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump and his aides allegedly tried to coerce the government of Ukraine into announcing an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Annabella Sciorra, Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff, and Lauren Marie Young took the stand to describe, often in devastating and harrowing detail, how Weinstein used his power, charm, anger, and influence to allegedly manipulate and coerce them into nonconsensual acts.
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"The evidence showed that over the course of many years, he has tried to coerce others into killing me, and in the end, resorted to hiring others to kill me," Ms. Baskin said in a video posted on the Big Cat Rescue website.
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The inquiry proved that Trump worked to coerce Ukraine into meddling in the American democratic process by falsely smearing one of his top political rivals, and that he engaged in an unprecedented effort to hinder the House's efforts to uncover the plot.
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"President Trump's persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security," Goldman said in his opening statement.
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What Price is really arguing is that the federal government should deploy the power of the United States to coerce self-employed individuals, small business people and the unemployed into buying grossly overpriced health insurance they do not want and cannot afford.
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Adam Schiff (D-CA), the hearings are intended to publicly spotlight evidence and testimony Democrats believe is quite damning for President Donald Trump — evidence that Trump tried to urge or coerce the government of Ukraine into investigating Trump's rivals for political reasons.
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Specifically, Trump is accused of withholding $400 million in military aid and the prospect of an Oval Office visit from new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to coerce him into announcing an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter's business dealings in the country.
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They argued that the $10,000 limit on the amount of state and local taxes that can be deducted from someone's federal tax liability is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress' taxing authority and was designed to "coerce" them to change their own tax policies.
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The scandal has to do with whether Trump improperly used his position to try to coerce the Ukrainian government into investigating his 2020 political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden — perhaps by withholding military aid to the Eastern European country until it agreed.
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Trump is embroiled in a scandal about whether he improperly used his position to try to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Trump's 2020 political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden — perhaps by withholding military aid to the Eastern European country.
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Bowden further alleged that Verizon knew full well what it was doing and took advantage of the situation to "coerce" County Fire into paying more:While Verizon ultimately did lift the throttling, it was only after County Fire subscribed to a new, more expensive plan.
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The article, "Facebook shouldn't block you from finding friends on competitors," advocated for Facebook to make its social graph more portable and interoperable so users could decamp to competitors if they felt they weren't treated right in order to coerce Facebook to act better.
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Patrick Moldowan, a doctoral candidate in evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto, and his colleagues hypothesize that the males ram and grind the front portion of their shells on the soft head and neck tissues of the females to coerce them to submit.
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The top national security lawyer at the White House, Eisenberg was approached by several officials -- including Russia director Fiona Hill and the top Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman -- with concerns about apparent attempts to coerce Ukraine's new President into opening investigations into Trump's political rivals.
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But Ms Park could not be trusted to uphold the constitution, they said, since she had divulged state secrets to Ms Choi (who held no official position) and colluded with her to coerce conglomerates to funnel donations to two cultural organisations that Ms Choi controlled.
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Trump's negotiators want Beijing to more strenuously enforce American intellectual property rights, stop cyber-hacking of trade secrets, curb industrial subsidies and end policies that coerce U.S. companies to turn over technology to Chinese competitors as a price of doing business in China's vast market.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern earlier on Tuesday at the high number of executions in Iran, persistent reports of the use of torture to coerce confessions, the killing of anti-government protesters last December, harassment of activists and closures of social media accounts.
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One concern with payments is that they might coerce low-income women into breastfeeding when that isn't the choice they want to make, Dr. Lydia Furman of Case Western Reserve University and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, writes in an accompanying editorial.
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And yet it cannot, because since 1973, a flawed interpretation of the Helms Amendment — which only prohibits "the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions" — has forbidden aid for abortion in all circumstances.
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A prosecutor told jurors in Manhattan federal court at the opening of a trial on Tuesday that John Williams, 50, encouraged employees at his debt collection firm - Williams, Scott & Associates LLC - to shake down consumers and coerce them into paying money they did not owe.
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In the coming weeks, I will introduce legislation that will combat online design features that coerce children and create bad habits, commercialization, and marketing that manipulate kids and push them into consumer culture, and the amplification of inappropriate and harmful content on the internet.
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While the judge allowed the Justice Department to retain conditions it already had in place on some federal grants, the judge ruled that the government could not take away federal funds from cities as an effort to coerce them to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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They can not only issue indictments, but grant prosecutors the power to invade the private lives of citizens, acquire their personal records and communications, and coerce them into cooperating with the government under threat of confinement, whether they're guilty of a crime or not.
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From EPA rules that coerce states into following regulations that go beyond the scope of congressional intent - to the staggering twisting of Title IX to set gender social policy in local schools – the Obama Administration has rewritten existing laws to fit a social agenda.
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"It would allow employers to ask employees invasive questions about … genetic tests they and their families have undergone" and "to impose stiff financial penalties on employees who choose to keep such information private, thus empowering employers to coerce their employees" into providing their genetic information.
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Dinesh Mishra from the non-government organization Barh Mukti Abhiyan, which works with communities in flood-prone areas, said officials in Gujarat must not coerce people into moving, and need to ensure residents are given adequate compensation for any losses suffered due to the move.
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That stance has crumbled as a succession of United States diplomats, capped by Mr. Sondland on Tuesday, have testified in the impeachment inquiry that the freeze on aid was part of a quid pro quo designed to coerce Mr. Zelensky into making the public statement.
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Knowing he has the authority to impose these tariffs, Trump has decided to use them as a tool to bludgeon our trading partners with; in this case, to coerce them into doing what we want on non-trade policies, such as migration and drug smuggling.
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Mel Watt attempted to 'coerce' employee into relationship Budding housing crisis must be nipped now MORE, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, came the same day government-sponsored enterprise Freddie Mac reported a $6900 billion profit in the final quarter of 2628.
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And yet, there is no public outcry on the level of when Aziz Ansari allegedly attempted to coerce a date into sex, Louis CK allegedly masturbated in front of women without their consent, or when Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual harassment and assault.
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But mailed-in and absentee ballots are at greater risk of theft, forgery and other kinds of fraud — it's easier, for example, to buy votes or coerce someone into casting a ballot by mail than it would be in the privacy of a voting booth.
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"[Trump has] proven that he's terrified of looking Joe Biden in the eye, even going as far as to get himself impeached when he was caught trying to coerce a foreign country into lying about the Vice President," said Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates.
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In the Ukraine affair, his lawyers have argued that nothing is impeachable or illegal about using his official powers to coerce a weak ally to announce a corruption investigation into a domestic political rival, and the Senate's Republican majority will likely vote to acquit him.
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On September 9th the Democratic chairmen of the three committees sent a formal request to the White House and the State Department, instructing them to turn over the documents related to what look like attempts to coerce the Ukrainian government into conducting politically motivated investigations.
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And calls for the Senate to broaden the investigation are resonating amid recent revelations that appear to bolster the impeachment case that Trump froze military assistance from Ukraine partly to coerce it to dig for dirt on his possible 2020 election rival Joe Biden.
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Bolton's revelations reported by the Times rocked the trial because they appear to be strong evidence that the President did indeed use military aid in an effort to coerce Ukraine to investigate Democrats including Joe Biden -- the question at the center of the Senate trial.
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The Interpreter WASHINGTON — A wave of leaks from government officials has hobbled the Trump administration, leading some to draw comparisons to countries like Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, where shadowy networks within government bureaucracies, often referred to as "deep states," undermine and coerce elected governments.
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They wring their hands and warn that America is setting the stage for a violent backlash by the Palestinians, which is actually pre-emptively excusing the Palestinian propensity to turn to terrorist violence and bloodshed as the preferred tactic for trying to coerce Israel.
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Democrats say that as part of his pressure campaign, Trump held back $391 million in security aid for Ukraine and a coveted White House meeting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as leverage to coerce Kiev into interfering in the 2020 election by smearing Biden.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday denied trying to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic rival Joe Biden, but wavered about whether he would release a transcript of a phone call that some Democrats say is grounds for his impeachment.
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Democrats' core argument is that Trump tried to coerce Ukraine's leaders into announcing investigations that would hurt his most likely 2020 opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, and bolster a conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that meddled in the 2016 election.
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Cuomo, NYDFS and its chief, Maria Vullo, whom the NRA also named as a defendant, engaged in a "campaign of selective prosecution, backroom exhortations, and public threats" to coerce banks and insurance companies to withhold services from the NRA, the group said in the suit.
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The report, from the House Intelligence Committee, offered a compelling narrative of how Trump used the powers of his office to manipulate US foreign policy and how he tried to allegedly coerce the new Ukrainian president into announcing investigations that would benefit him politically.
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The current crisis has to do with whether Trump improperly used his position to try to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Trump's 2020 political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden — perhaps by withholding military aid to the Eastern European country until it agreed.
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The answers fell into two camps: those who felt the US should try to coerce Russia into compliance with what they say is a historic and useful treaty, and those who said the US should leave the treaty entirely because it's hurting America's security.
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The House has accumulated significant evidence that Mr. Trump used his office, and leveraged congressionally appropriated foreign security assistance, for his personal political benefit by attempting to coerce Ukraine, a foreign ally facing Russian aggression, to announce an investigation into a domestic political rival.
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But if there's any question about a source of WikiLeaks being threatened, then people can be assured that this organization will go after anyone who may have been involved in some kind of attempt to coerce or possibly, in this case, kill a potential source.
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Cummins' public defender in California, Benjamin Galloway, issued a statement defending his client, claiming he has "no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever," and that he didn't coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth, Cummins' former student at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee.
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"This could coerce employees into providing information that they would otherwise not provide about their health," said Sarah Fleisch Fink, senior policy counsel with the National Partnership on Women & Families, which was among dozens of groups that wrote comment letters seeking changes in the draft rule.
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In other words, President Trump has some time here to ratchet up the pressure again, to unlock the lockbox where all our sanctions have been the last few years, and to use any other means of state power possible to coerce the regime to change its behavior.
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Justices Antonin Scalia, Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito agreed, however, that Washington could not use its powers over interstate commerce to force unwilling Americans to purchase health insurance and could not use its control over federal spending to coerce states to cooperate with ObamaCare mandates.
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"Nothing in the ordinary meaning of the words 'offenses against the United States' excludes criminal contempts," Taft wrote, noting a distinction between civil contempt (which is used to coerce a person to do something) and criminal contempt (which is used to punish a person for past behavior).
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" Here are the hints of Weinstein's harassment and abuse that went ignored over the years: Gwyneth Paltrow, who came forward saying she was sexually harassed by Weinstein when she was 22, said on the Letterman Show that Weinstein "will coerce you to do a thing or two.
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"SeaWorld's corporate espionage campaign included trying to coerce kind people into setting SeaWorld on fire or draining its tanks ... in an attempt to distract from its cruelty and keep PETA from exposing the miserable lives of the animals it imprisons," PETA said in a news release.
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Cummins' public defender in California, Benjamin Galloway, issued a statement defending his client, claiming he has "no history of violence and no criminal history whatsoever," and that he didn't coerce, force or threaten Elizabeth, Cummins' former student at the Culleoka Unit School in Maury County, Tennessee.
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What's in your selfie and where you take it are also something to consider: Illinois, for example, considers showing your marked ballot to another person a felony, while others like Missouri and Ohio say it's only illegal if you are purposely trying to coerce another person's vote.
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The United States should expect more threats of this sort from Pyongyang, potentially threatening more dangerous strikes to coerce US allies or demand withdrawal of US forces, a fact that makes it even more important that the United States make a firm and deliberate response quickly.
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Mr. Taylor was a standout witness for Democrats during his closed-door testimony, describing in vivid terms how the Trump administration used military aid to try to coerce Ukraine into investigating the president's rivals, and the real-world effects that had on the country's war with Russia.
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The current and former students allege in a lawsuit filed in federal court in New Hampshire that former professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen used their positions in the school's Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences (PBS) to coerce them into drinking and sex.
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"The FCC should not allow ISPs [internet service providers] to manipulate and coerce consumers into giving up their privacy and should prohibit these problematic arrangements as part of its proceeding to implement privacy protections for internet users," wrote the Open Technology Institute's Eric Null on Friday.
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The advisory, which CBC obtained under the Access to Information Act [Similar to the Freedom of Information ACT], said seniors are being scammed online and in some cases losing "substantial money" to traffickers, who then coerce them into smuggling drugs as a means of recovering their cash.
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In short, existing crimes — like kidnapping, murder, and assault — that are intended "to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or influence, affect, or retaliate against the policy or conduct of a government" would receive added federal penalties, as would efforts to provide "material support" to domestic terrorists.
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So they just need to know even as they try to undermine our ability to find the facts around the president's effort to coerce a foreign leader to create dirt that he can use against a political opponent, that they will be strengthening the case on obstruction.
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The heart of the accusation against Mr. Trump is that he abused his official powers, including withholding a promised White House meeting and congressionally mandated military aid, in an attempt to coerce Ukraine's president into announcing investigations that could deliver personal political benefits to Mr. Trump.
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The House's de facto prosecutors will describe in detail what the evidence that is already available shows: Trump orchestrated a scheme to coerce a foreign power into smearing a potential 2020 opponent, and endeavored to do everything he could to prevent Congress from uncovering the plot.
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If North Korea achieves deliverable nuclear weapons, it will be able to extort and coerce the United States, Japan, South Korea and others, not to mention opening a vast emporium of nuclear technology for the likes of Iran, other aspiring nuclear weapons states and even terrorist groups.
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Mr. Weinstein's power was after all enormous; his (and his lawyers') connections were extensive; and he was often able to buy or coerce the silence of any accusers, at times employing an Israeli security firm called Black Cube, many of whose employees were former intelligence operatives.
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" Here are five of the most pointed sections of the editorial: "But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents.
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Key witnesses, solid evidence, the words of acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and even the President's own words in the rough transcript of his July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggest very strongly that there was an attempt to coerce Ukraine.
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Just as it does not make sense to coerce Trump to build a golf course in Florida when there is a better opportunity in Scotland, it does not make sense to bully Ford into building in Michigan when it is more efficient to build in Mexico.
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An audacious and grave accusation Specifically, Schiff's report alleges that Trump and a wider than previously established band of senior officials and associates tried to coerce Ukraine into investigating potential domestic rival Joe Biden -- in effect soliciting a foreign power to interfere in a US election.
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She also said that his allegations, including that investigators attempted to coerce Corsi into providing false testimony, would be better directed toward the Mueller investigation in a court case rather than attempting to have the DOJ pause the investigation -- an outcome she said would be highly unlikely.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly listened in on the July 25 phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — indicating that the State Department's top official was aware of the president's efforts to coerce a foreign leader to investigate Trump's 2020 opponent.
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We would also work extremely closely with law enforcement and the intelligence community to not only verify or share forensics data, but in one of my favorite instances actually help coerce two Russian hackers to the U.S. from Russia, where they performed more hacking and were quickly arrested.
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Writing for Vox, therapist Sherry Amatenstein explained that sex addiction shouldn't be used to cover for assault: Regardless of the validity of sex addiction or how badly a patient wants to get better, mental health is not an excuse to sexually assault and shame and coerce victims into silence.
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