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Officials denied the government was coercing people to accept the document.
Countering China will require cooperating with, rather than coercing, European allies.
"What they're doing is intimidating and coercing and lying," he said.
Saudi Arabia has denied detaining Hariri or coercing him to quit.
You're coercing them into doing kind of what you want them to do.
If you actually are coercing someone, then you become a threat to them.
The government stopped coercing Polar into handing over its products at reduced prices.
Previous studies concluded that male mosquitofish with larger genitals were better at coercing females.
Rather than coercing, China manipulates, preferring to act in moral and legal gray areas.
So coercing him to create a cake for the occasion is compelled artistic speech.
It should not be provided with the intent of coercing, shaming, or judging a woman.
America has a sorry history of coercing young minority women into sterilization or birth control.
Her agent was not identified but was arrested in July 2009 and charged for coercing her.
The landowners turned their economic power into political authority, coercing their tenants to vote for them.
Each member of the sextuplet was tasked with coercing a beautiful arrangement out of the orchestra.
At worst, USFWS is actually attempting to abuse that authority through coercing funds from private companies.
The board had accused Bridgewater of "interfering with, restraining and coercing" employees from exercising their rights.
A person is not permitted to threaten to harm someone as a way of coercing behavior.
Asking how government can protect life — without coercing women — can provoke different conversations in different regions.
No. Coercing somebody to use medical aid in dying is a felony punishable by criminal prosecution.
Alongside them coercing me into doing these, I was getting offered a lot of horror movies.
Among other things, women accused him of making sexual advances, stalking and coercing them into embarrassing photographs.
In a Thursday speech, Pence said that China was "coercing corporate America" by silencing companies and officials.
Justice Minister Rafael Catala on Tuesday warned the regional administration against coercing municipal leaders to take part.
"I'm not trying to hurt you, Evie," he says to her, coercing her into a blow job.
The charge sheet accused him of coercing workers to stay away from work and encouraging civil disobedience.
Simply coercing mitigation payments from the private sector represents the worst form of government abuse of authority.
Jamie's narrative currency is so high that coercing him into bed means bearing him a beloved child.
SCA accused CMPC of having organized the scheme and coercing it to participate, according to the prosecutor.
Take the problem of sextortion: coercing someone to engage in sexual conduct or provide sexually explicit imagery.
Soldiers played a key role in coercing voters to support the governing party, especially in rural areas.
On February 11, Michelle was found guilty of coercing Conrad to die by suicide via her text messages.
He said Beijing was intimidating and coercing others in the region by putting weapons systems on manmade islands.
Led by former FARC fighters who rejected the peace, the group is already coercing local families for support.
Without it, executive branch agencies could keep spending in hopes of coercing the legislature for taxpayer money afterwards.
Rather than coercing communities to accept subsidized low-income housing, better to look more closely at actual demographics.
Third, the bill would address the problem of border officers coercing travelers into letting officers search their devices.
A sack alters a drive, pushing the offense back or coercing a punt or a longer field goal.
She's long been criticized for allegedly coercing false confessions out of the 5 boys ... leading to their convictions.
Fairstein has since been accused of coercing confessions out of the five teenagers, who were later exonerated in 2002.
The grand jury had charged Mr. Perry with coercing a public servant and abusing his official capacity, both felonies.
A good sex life is not created by coercing disinterested parties into allowing you to do whatever excites you.
" Boykins, in court filings and through his lawyer, has accused Buttigieg of coercing him into resigning under "false pretense.
They've always been evocative of something smooth and blissful, while coercing out of you that restless desire to dance.
ISIS appears to be trying to take advantage of its gains by coercing local tribes to take its side.
Two former divers are accusing former USA Diving coach Will Bohonyi of coercing them into sex, the Star reported.
It's not really what I'd envisioned as a route into slavery: no abduction, no coercing, ostensibly no shady business.
Ms. Salazar publicly accused Mr. Keyes on Tuesday of coercing her into having oral sex with him in 2013.
A Google employee with whom he was having an extramarital relationship accused him of coercing her into oral sex.
On one level, Shelly is coercing her ex-husband, taking advantage of the fact that Maura is temporarily homeless.
We don't want to spend as much as liberals, and we don't believe in coercing people to buy insurance.
In East Asia and Eastern Europe, revisionist authoritarian powers are coercing their neighbors and nibbling away at the international order.
Gomez alleges in court papers that the detective physically abused him over 12 hours, coercing him to provide a statement.
When people can easily move to a competitor, it creates a natural market dynamic coercing a business to act right.
Derrick Rose, the former Bulls star, has been accused of coercing a former girlfriend into group sex, which he denies.
Separately, she is accused of coercing businesses into making donations worth $71 million to two foundations that a friend controlled.
Last month, prosecutors unsealed new charges accusing Raniere of sexually exploiting a minor and coercing her to produce child pornography.
News outlets picked up the story immediately, interpreting the comment as Somerhalder coercing Reed into starting a family without her consent.
China and North Korea have been accused of coercing and broadcasting confessions, presumably to destroy the reputations of those they accuse.
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To critics, this is evidence of a rapacious industry coercing the poor to auction bits of themselves to make ends meet.
Samstrom admitted to coercing the teens, but didn't think that his actions constituted as rape, and intends to appeal the sentence.
Is coercing anguished patients into becoming subjects of studies from which others will profit solely to obtain possible cures morally justified?
She rations her smiles, and her most efficient method for coercing people to talk is to stare them into the truth.
Sanctions against North Korea and China remain indispensable, as they are the only peaceful means for coercing the regime to disarm.
High housing prices have been coercing more people to sell, easing the inventory crunch that kept sellers in the driver's seat.
In addition, Japan's then-chief cabinet secretary, Yohei Kono, apologized in a 1993 statement acknowledging authorities' involvement in coercing the women.
The Iranians have 40 years of experience coercing neighbors and killing adversaries through proxies like Hezbollah — always expertly, with plausible deniability.
Edwards abused an African-American man with intellectual disabilities by coercing him to work long hours in a restaurant without pay.
He helped draft a bill in Massachusetts called Conrad's Law that is tailored to punishing people for encouraging or coercing suicide.
Coercing states and localities to perform these functions would also be constitutionally suspect under the 10th Amendment, which safeguards states' rights.
The change would "allow the president to eliminate a major union complaint without coercing workers to pay dues," the memo says.
One was that coercing a child to eat, say, a vegetable by dangling the prospect of dessert was a bad idea.
Among other allegations, Rubin was accused of coercing a female coworker into performing oral sex on him in a hotel room.
Her investigations show some evidence of researchers going off the study script and possibly coercing participants to deliver the desired results.
A Home Office briefing note lists 483 types of abuse, ranging from forced labour to coercing spouses or servants into domestic work.
Eric Greitens has been accused in a government report of hitting his former hairstylist and coercing her into performing a sexual act.
In April President Donald Trump accused China of stealing intellectual property, coercing American firms into technology transfers and other unfair trade practices.
Facebook employed "dark patterns" in the design of the consent flow, coercing users to agree to the changes without fully considering them.
I sat down on the toilet and started chatting with him, and he immediately began coercing me to get into his bathtub.
Remember, C.K. copped to dropping his pants and masturbating in front of women ... and even coercing them into keeping silent about it.
He's a key player in the alleged scheme to subvert President Donald Trump's political opponents by coercing Ukraine into launching sham investigations.
But some consumer advocates worry that Verizon could accelerate that change by coercing customers into switching over to avoid a quick disconnection.
In January, police sergeant Chu Chi-ho was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment for coercing sex from a one-woman brothel worker.
"You squeezed statements out of them after 42 hours of questioning and coercing," Mr. Casolaro says to Mr. Sheehan in the scene.
Turning this history on its head, Trump has accused Joe Biden of coercing Ukraine to jettison Shokin in order to protect Hunter.
After all, the president already tried to undermine his likeliest Democratic opponent by coercing a foreign power into accusing him of corruption.
Security forces tightly control who goes in and out of the camps, sometimes coercing women and girls to trade sex for food.
A clip from Craig's Bond in Skyfall shows him having absolutely no reservations about coercing a former sex slave into sleeping with him.
Ms Choi has been indicted for coercing South Korea's biggest business groups to funnel 80bn won ($70m) into two foundations that she controlled.
The woman accused Darmanin of coercing her into having sex in 2009 when she sought his help in having her criminal record cleared.
The National Labor Relations Board alleges that the hedge fund "has been interfering with, restraining and coercing" employees through its strict confidentiality agreements.
It is a tactic that virtually no one here thinks has any chance of actually coercing Lebanon to constrain Hezbollah, a Shiite group.
In addition to coercing me, she also subjected me to all her grief and blame just because I was the closest person around.
Coercing citizens and firms by cutting access to the financial services banks have been empowered by the government to provide is quite another.
Over the last several months, American officials ended civilian aid to Palestinians in hopes of coercing Palestinian officials into peace negotiations with Israel.
Instead, American military officials said, extremist groups in Somalia are making up casualties and coercing locals to make false claims of civilians killed.
The best workers were beaten as well, the whip and other assaults coercing them into doing even more work in even less time.
And, some governments are already coercing or very nicely asking with a big fist behind the head of companies to provide that information.
She tells TMZ she's outraged at what Trump said during the debate -- accusing Clinton of coercing women to go public with fake stories.
Like any found object, the box comes with an overwhelming narrative pull, conjuring a vast jigsaw puzzle, coercing the artists to complete it.
Separately, she and Ms. Park were accused of coercing businesses into making donations worth $71 million to two foundations that Ms. Choi controlled.
The opposition blamed Sisi's government for intimidating or coercing other candidates to pull out, but the President said he was not to blame.
Ms. Choi was indicted in November on charges of coercing 53 big businesses, including Samsung, to contribute $69 million to her two foundations.
Choi is accused of coercing $70 million in bribes from big businesses and promising that they would receive favorable treatment from Park's government.
She campaigned on promises to review cases involving Guevara, who is accused of widespread witness tampering, beating witnesses and suspects, and coercing false confessions.
According to the PBS statement, and Variety's report on the investigation, Smiley is not accused of groping, coercing, or inappropriately exposing himself to colleagues.
The AMC and the White Helmets maintain a Russian airstrike hit Omran's home, but they deny coercing the young boy's family to say that.
Rubin has been accused of having inappropriate relations with a subordinate, of allegedly coercing a woman into oral sex (an allegation that Rubin denies).
A Louisiana sheriff's deputy has been arrested and accused of coercing a woman to perform a sex act on her 85033-year-old son.
This raises the possibility that such groups may increasingly seek to target Chinese projects and citizens in Pakistan as a means of coercing Islamabad.
Not only did he confirm the sexual relationship, but Draper also accused the DA's office of coercing his original testimony to match its theory.
Rubin was accused of coercing a female employee, with whom he'd been having affair, into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013.
The NYT reported in October that Google made the payout after a female employee accused Mr. Rubin of coercing her into performing oral sex.
The two women were also convicted of coercing 18 businesses into making donations worth 77 billion won to two foundations that Ms. Choi controlled.
In January, a judge awarded $13 million to 22 women who accused porn producer Girls Do Porn of tricking and coercing them into performing.
The South Korean news media has said that Ms. Choi, in addition to coercing donations from businesses, helped her associates win lucrative government contracts.
He is charged with coercing one woman into prostitution, and with stealing $1 million from his victims, according to the indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Among her crimes was coercing major companies to donate a huge sums to foundations under her control and receiving bribes from Samsung and Lotte.
The TLC star was accused in December by Kailey Kaminsky of coercing her to perform oral sex while they were both working on the show.
Most successful were efforts to turn Russians abroad and ambitious business leaders into agents, coercing them into adding back doors into software or company databases.
At the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Pence accused China of "coercing corporate America" by silencing companies, think tanks, scholars and government officials.
I began to see the prototypical "heroic man" as the films' villains, consistently robbing women of their power or coercing them into giving it up.
Saudi Arabia denied coercing its long-time ally to quit, and Hariri has now returned to Beirut and indicated that he might withdraw his resignation.
Rights groups accused the CPP of coercing citizens to vote for the ruling party, leaving many no choice but to spoil their votes in protest.
The dystopic warlord might not be ripping imprisoned women's T-shirts off in cramped cells, but he's coercing them into physical relationships all the same.
The memo cited numerous incidents of Weinstein harassing or coercing women who worked for him and noted the incredible power imbalance inherent in such situations.
With no real challenger in this week's election, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is cajoling, coercing and even paying voters to ensure a credible turnout.
The Ukraine scheme indicates that he doesn't trust the American people to re-elect him without coercing a foreign government to undermine his potential opponent.
In another notorious case, four women arrested on drug-related charges came forward to accuse two Los Angeles police officers of coercing sex from them.
US immigration authorities were accused of coercing parents separated from their kids into signing documents, like deportation papers, or they would never see their children again.
Since 20133, authorities say Koester photographed women, often coercing them to pose naked and, in some situations, would drug and then record himself sexually assaulting them.
Ann-King alleged that Marquis-Boire had physically and sexually abused close friends of hers, including coercing anal sex from a woman too intoxicated to consent.
The tools that are so useful for organizing a parenting group are just as effective at coercing large groups of Americans into yelling at each other.
It also recommended that children participating in clinical research should not get priority over those who are not, because of concerns about coercing families into trials.
The story's charm disguises the invasion of privacy at its heart: the way technology is both eroding our personal boundaries and coercing us in deleterious ways.
Raniere was charged this year along with a NXIVM adherent, the actress Allison Mack, with coercing followers into becoming "slaves" to senior members of the group.
He has been charged with pandering, which can send him to prison for 20 years, for allegedly coercing a woman into prostitution, Sheriff Wriggelsworth tells PEOPLE.
Mr. Meadows rose to the president's defense again when the House debated impeaching him for coercing Ukraine to incriminate his Democratic rivals by withholding security aid.
But Mr. Raniere, who is on trial on charges including sex trafficking and coercing an underage girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct, now stands alone.
"If I had joined the C.I.A., I'd probably be in some country in South America, posing as a diplomat, coercing people with naughty photos," he said.
They were also accused of coercing scores of big businesses to make donations worth tens of millions of dollars to two foundations that Ms. Choi controlled.
In this regard, Trump is taking cues from his authoritarian idol Vladimir Putin, who has been accused of coercing Russia's Central Bank into doing his bidding.
The White House accused China of coercing American companies and citizens, and said it was an extension of the repression it practices on the internet domestically.
The government contends Kelly "has a history of coercing women to write letters containing false and embarrassing allegations" so he can later use them as blackmail.
President Donald Trump is accused of coercing a foreign leader into interfering in our elections and then doing everything in his power to cover it up.
And former Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer warned that Trump's hectoring of the Fed could backfire by coercing it into more aggressive policy just to prove its independence.
By coercing the viewer into a space where their environment is the same environment as the characters', music became a world-building tool and a thematic device.
Let me make something very clear: there was no coercing with the Trump campaign and myself to try to give him an upper hand on these questions.
According to the suit, the Nation claims "Billions" makes it seem like the Cayuga are all about accepting "unlawful gratuities" and coercing politicians into getting their way.
I learned that a "perfect body" was a body that you had to work for — it required changing, hating, coercing, and restricting the one I already had.
Paul Mitchell's son Angus, a co-owner of the Paul Mitchell Company, is being sued for allegedly coercing and cajoling an employee to have sex with him.
Raniere was charged earlier this year along with a NXIVM adherent, the actress Allison Mack, with coercing followers into becoming "slaves" to senior members of the group.
According to Eater's report, at least four women have accused Batali of unwanted touching, including groping, hugging, and in one case, coercing a woman to straddle him.
He has also spread an unproven and unsupported theory that Mueller's team is coercing people close to Trump to lie about him to bring down his presidency.
Importantly, FIRRMA does not radically change the scope of CFIUS to make it a tool for escalating trade disputes, coercing market reciprocity or imposing bygone industrial policy.
The friend appears to have been deeply involved in state affairs, and is accused of coercing large companies into donating nearly $70 million to foundations she controlled.
Washington can choose the former option, in the sense that, as an unrivaled military power, coercing a far smaller, weaker, and poorer nation like Iran is feasible.
At the time, his campaign against the Big Gulp was decried as freedom-limiting, coercing individuals to make an uncomfortable decision at the behest of big government.
This doesn't preclude repeal efforts or even judicial recourse, but it does preclude coercing an agency to break the law to achieve the goals of the minority.
The bill proposes that a person who is aware of "another person's propensity for suicidal ideation" can be punished for "coercing or encouraging" them to kill themselves.
But during this period, Manson began to study religion as a tool of control, and to practice coercing and manipulating other people — in particular, vulnerable young women.
If there were a strong bipartisan consensus in favor of coercing Panama into changing its laws regarding taxation or shell companies, we could get the job done.
Mack and Raniere are charged with recruiting at least two women, whose identities are under seal, and then forcing or coercing them to engage in commercial sex acts.
Democrats maintain Trump withheld millions of dollars in security aid for Ukraine for the sole purpose of coercing the country's leaders to find dirt on his political rivals.
In a Los Angeles Times story, several women accused the actor of sexually exploitative behavior such as well as coercing a date to perform oral sex on him.
On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook and Google have been hit with a raft of lawsuits accusing the companies of coercing users into sharing personal data.
She is played by Felicity Huffman in the series, who illustrates Fairstein's key role in coercing the false confession from the boys that led to their wrongful conviction.
It's an apt analogy, as Trump has practiced his own version of the Samson Option, coercing consent by threatening to annihilate everyone around him in addition to himself.
On February 1, 26-year-old YouTuber Austin Jones pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after coercing six underage fans into sending him sexually explicit videos of themselves.
Berlin associates positive freedom with "coercing others for their own sake", whereas "negative freedom" is characterised by the absence of constraints: individual autonomy to "act unobstructed by others".
In 133, the paper reported, a woman who worked for Google had accused Android cofounder Andy Rubin of coercing her to perform oral sex in a hotel room.
One of the counts, which accuses Mr. Kelly of coercing a minor into engaging in sexual activity with him, carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.
He also sought the advice of other career criminals, including pimps who taught him techniques for successfully coercing and breaking down the resistance of women under his control.
There's never been a worse time for a show about an abusive man coercing teenagers into sour sexual discourse and insisting they keep his disturbing behavior a secret.
"The Trump administration's immigration agenda depends on coercing local law enforcement to be their force multipliers," said Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrants' rights for the A.C.L.U. of California.
The federal government, which has banned voter intimidation, defines the act as threatening or coercing an individual in order to interfere with his or her right to vote.
"The formation of alliances between adult males for the purposes of coercing females is uncommon, since mating success cannot be shared," the paper's co-author Stephanie King said.
Yet for a century, the Turkish government has denied the tragedy and muzzled efforts to revisit it by coercing media companies and other governments to do the same.
That plea agreement has since fallen apart, with Flynn last year hiring a more combative legal team that's accused prosecutors of malfeasance and coercing him into pleading guilty.
Coercing confessions through torture and other means is a persistent practice, with some defendants in high-profile cases confessing to crimes in public before trials have taken place.
The Times reported that Rubin was accused of coercing a female employee, with whom he'd been having affair, into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013.
And he sought the advice of other career criminals, including pimps who taught him techniques for successfully coercing and breaking down the resistance of women under his control.
Veronica Besides a breakup for the Tumblr ages, Ronnie's major contribution to this episode is finding the recording of Sheriff Minetta coercing Cassidy Bullock's friends into lying about Archie.
Democrats say Trump was attempting to cheat in the 2020 election by coercing a foreign ally to smear his possible political opponent with the stain of a criminal probe.
Democrats argued that Trump sought to cheat in the 2020 presidential election by coercing a foreign ally to smear his possible opponent with the stain of a criminal probe.
Jayashri Srikantiah of Stanford Law School argues that there is case law that validates sanctuary policies and there are constitutional problems with coercing states into action with financial threats.
Coercing or inducing a subordinate to maintain the supervisor's personal account would amount to a misuse of position and, if done on official time, a misuse of official time.
" In an undated letter on the website, Raniere said he was "deeply saddened" and "there is no merit to the allegations that we are abusing, coercing or harming individuals.
Wright filed a federal lawsuit accusing police of writing a false confession and coercing him to sign it without reading it and planting other evidence used to convict him.
This follows four charges filed in February by the United Automobile Workers against Tesla for allegedly surveilling and coercing workers who attempted to distribute information about the union drive.
She was head of the Manhattan D.A.'s Sex Crimes Unit in 1989 when the 5 boys were convicted ... and her role in coercing confessions is sparking renewed outrage.
It also follows intervention by an influential Hindu nationalist group with close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said PepsiCo was coercing the farmers.
"I felt that they were humiliating and coercing me with these inhuman actions," Carole Ghosn said in her account, dated April 4, the day of her husband's re-arrest.
The agency, in a novel antitrust argument, said that the company had exploited its dominant position in the German market by coercing people into giving up their personal data.
An employee with whom Rubin had allegedly been having an affair accused him of coercing her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to the Times.
" The scientific integrity document expressly "prohibits managers and other Agency leadership from intimidating or coercing scientists to alter scientific data, findings or professional opinions or inappropriately influencing scientific advisory boards.
As part of his departure, Rubin — who was reportedly accused by another Google employee of coercing her to perform a sex act on him — received a $90 million exit package.
Then with its QR Snapcodes, it got people to change their profile pictures on other social networks to what's essentially a Snapchat logo, further coercing friends to join the app.
This includes helping pay Mason's legal fees with the use of campaign funds, according to The Washington Post, and coercing government employees into assisting in the coverup of his affair.
Often these tactics revolve around aggressively coercing users into signing up to expensive subscriptions with unclear terms, in the hope that people either won't notice or will forget to unsubscribe.
Greitens was accused of coercing his hairdresser into nonconsensual sex acts and taking nude photos of her as blackmail, according to an explosive report from state lawmakers released in April.
The story goes that at the fall of the Soviet Union, state intelligence would often use black-hat hackers with particular skills or information, either by coercing or paying them.
In other misconduct news: Two massage therapists have sued the casino mogul Steve Wynn in separate lawsuits, each accusing him of coercing them into sex more than a dozen times.
The Warren Court gave poor defendants the right to a free lawyer, barred police officers from coercing confessions and required them to inform defendants of their rights (the Miranda warning).
Allegations include coercing court staffers to work on her electoral campaign and retaliating against workers who did not, as well as hiring a romantic partner, according to the conduct committee.
Like counts can hurt people's well-being by leading them into envy spirals comparing themselves against peers, or coercing them to self-censor to avoid an embarrassingly low Like count.
In October, The New York Times reported that Google had paid the exit package after a female employee accused Mr. Rubin of coercing her into performing oral sex on him.
Any evaluation of Jackson must begin with American Indian removal, his policy of coercing Native American tribes into leaving their historical territory and embarking on dangerous and often deadly relocations.
Trump not only has proven to be fiscally irresponsible like his predecessor, he also has played a dangerous political game of publicly coercing the Fed to keep interest rates artificially low.
Democrats said Trump sought to cheat in the 2020 presidential contest by coercing a foreign ally to smear Biden, Trump's possible general election opponent, with the stain of a criminal probe.
In the absence of a federal RTT law, the government has in effect been coercing sick Americans into becoming research subjects to obtain treatments that could save or prolong their lives.
If we forget for a second it was a 7-year-old child and a 31-year-old man, Jackson was gentle and loving and he wasn't coercing the boys physically.
Current labor law makes opt-in automatic, while opting out is a road paved with union intimidation—labor officials are notorious for bullying and coercing employees into supporting a union's agenda.
The suit alleges that Bohonyi forced two female athletes into having sex with him as well as repeatedly coercing them into sexual acts and making them send naked pictures of themselves.
It has also objected to any text that would imply the Chinese had broken previous commitments by stealing commercial secrets from American companies, or unfairly coercing foreign businesses into transferring technology.
Yet today the Republican Party does not support impeachment for coercing a foreign government to interfere in our electoral process, jeopardizing our national security, obstructing Congress's investigation and lying about it.
In Wednesday's lawsuit, Epstein is accused of coercing girls into coming with him to the island, where he would take their passports and block communication with anyone not on the islands.
The 1993 "Kono Statement", named after then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono in whose name it was issued, acknowledged Japanese authorities' involvement in coercing the women to work in the brothels.
The case resulted in "Conrad's Law," a bill under debate in the Massachusetts legislature, that would make coercing someone into suicide a crime punishable by up to five years in prison.
The lawsuit alleges that J&J and its Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit have kept the price for Remicade artificially high by coercing insurance companies to deny coverage for less expensive biosimilar versions.
YouTube has changed directions and decided to remove the channel of a prominent creator who pleaded guilty earlier this week to coercing a number of underage girls into sending sexually explicit videos.
U.S. prosecutors in New York on Monday accused Epstein, 66, of sex trafficking, luring dozens of girls, some as young as 14, to his luxury homes and coercing them into sex acts.
Yet one of the major "wins" Trump scored in the new trade deal he negotiated with Canada and Mexico was coercing our trade partners into making new giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry.
To develop meaningful and widespread U.S. cybersecurity, the effective options are coercing adversaries, creating an environment that incentivizes self-restraint or deters aggressive cyber acts, and seeking verifiable non-aggression accords. 2.
Last month, Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed Powell's accusations that the prosecutors and the FBI had acted improperly by engaging in a political scheme against Flynn aimed at coercing him into pleading guilty.
This, coupled with Iran&aposs strategic geographic proximity to critical energy fields and global energy supply lines, gives the country a great deal of leverage in both deterring and coercing its adversaries.
The steps an unscrupulous prosecutor might take to get a conviction, like hiding evidence favorable to the defense or coercing a witness to give certain testimony, seldom becomes public, legal scholars said.
He is also charged with witness tampering, making false statements, and obstruction of justice (for allegedly coercing and threatening individuals involved in the investigation), and deprivation of rights under the color of law.
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said Monday that Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake are "manipulating" and "coercing" shareholders of the tracking stock of VMware into accepting their buyout offer.
" But Ron Davis, who was director of the Justice Department's Community Oriented Policing Services under Obama, said Monday that coercing local police into immigration enforcement runs "counter to the philosophy of community policing.
The FBI tried to spread this information around Washington, but in an age when men, including a sitting president, could get away with coercing women into having sex there was little take-up.
Except that falsely telling someone to kill or go to prison goes well beyond a matter of social compliance to actively threatening and coercing them, not that this matters to Brown and company.
The government essentially admitted that it was possible both to advance its goal of covering contraception and to do so without coercing religious objectors to participate—it had simply refused to employ alternatives.
If this sounds like the list of ingredients for a mopey breakup album, though, remember that this is a band who spent half their career melting faces and the other coercing dance parties.
This is the latest blow for Pornhub, which just last month cut off all content from Girls Do Porn -- a separate company that was accused of coercing dozens of women into adult videos.
"The program falsely represents that squeezing and coercing statements from juvenile subjects after long hours of questioning without food, bathroom breaks, or parental supervision, is synonymous with the Reid Technique," the lawsuit said.
"He always put me in the position of doing the dirty work," Rabbit said, speaking of a boyfriend who used to choke and beat her when he wasn't coercing her to commit crimes.
Saying there is "no evidence (Salman) encouraged Mateen and his pathology," Moreno also took aim at FBI interrogators, accusing them of coercing Salman into "adopting their narrative" and failing to record her statements.
Mr. Weinstein, who is known for Oscar-winning films like "Shakespeare in Love," had manipulated her from the start, she said, dangling the possibility of work, then coercing her into a sexual relationship.
This comes after a civil court ruling that its owners are guilty of coercing women to have sex on camera, and lying about how those videos would be distributed all over the internet.
But analysts say it appears to secure only limited protections against China's practices of coercing technology away from the United States, and does nothing to stop China's pattern of heavily subsidizing its industries.
Greitens is refusing to resign over allegations that he blackmailed a woman after coercing her to have sex with him, and was also accused of criminal wrongdoing related to a charity donor list.
"Step by step, Beijing is going back to the old path of dividing, coercing and even threatening and intimidating Taiwan," she told journalists in Taipei, the capital, at a year-end news conference.
In March, Mr. Raniere was charged in federal court with coercing women into having sex with him by threatening to reveal damaging personal secrets they had disclosed in order to join the sorority.
He faces additional federal charges of witness tampering, making false statements, and obstruction of justice (for allegedly coercing and threatening individuals involved in the investigation), and deprivation of rights under the color of law.
So arguably, making a Trek series that lots of people want to watch and holding it hostage behind a paywall was an effective move — at least when it comes to coercing superfans like me.
In this case, that means taking into account the opinions of the population the police are DNA testing, to make sure they aren't coercing vulnerable people into unwillingly giving up a right to privacy.
Many of the migrants who cross the border illegally willfully pay smugglers to do so and don't become victims of human trafficking -- the act of exploiting or coercing people into forced labor or prostitution.
He surrounds Judy in a false sense of security so he can continue a comfortable life of crime (murder notwithstanding), coercing her to continue the cover up even as her conscience screams in protest.
As we reported ... XXX was placed under house arrest after being hit with 15 new felony charges for what prosecutors believe to be witness tampering by coercing his girlfriend into not testifying against him.
Because his government is so weak — its support base is small and its military has suffered heavy defections — Mr. Assad seems to believe he can regain control only by violently coercing Syrians into submission.
One of the "aberrant geniuses" named was former Android head Andy Rubin, who left Google in 2014 with a $90 million exit package after being accused of coercing a coworker to perform oral sex.
Ms. Curtis said that people generally think of rape as an act committed by a stranger using a weapon but that there were other ways of controlling and coercing victims into not fighting back.
His achievements as district attorney included the conviction of his fellow Democrat Clarence Norman Jr., the party's Brooklyn leader, on corruption charges that involved coercing judicial candidates to hire the party's favored campaign consultants.
Mr. Hincapie's lawyers argued that his case was emblematic of a more troubling form of aggressive policing, with a detective coercing him into confessing even though he had not been involved in the killing.
" Ken Frydman, his spokesman, denied all the claims and said Mr. Bacon had spent more than a decade trying "to smear Peter Nygard by coercing women to fabricate and manufacture sordid stories about him.
Mr. Weinstein has been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting movie stars and employees of his former namesake company over the course of decades and then paying them or coercing them to stay silent.
It further alleges Gentry engaged in nepotism, appointing friends to a specific panel after also coercing then-incumbent members of that same panel to donate to her campaign the maximum amount of money allowed.
In July, Kelly was charged in New York in an indictment that accused him of violating federal law by coercing and transporting women and girls across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity.
War Machine, who legally changed his name from Jonathan Koppenhaver, was convicted on 29 of 34 charges that included first-degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon, sexual assault and coercing witnesses in March.
Tai told the Post that she was too frightened to tell anyone what happened to her until the latest reports emerged from other women who have accused Epstein of harassing, coercing, trafficking, and assaulting them.
David Samson, the PA's executive director, later pleaded guilty to a crime relating to coercing United Airlines to restart a discontinued flight to South Carolina so Samson could more easily visit his vacation home there.
Among other offenses, he was charged with coercing a dying multimillionaire client — during a late-night visit to the man's hospital room — to amend his will to make Mr. Cohn an executor of his estate.
Americans are finally paying attention to the deeply fucked up problem of cops coercing false confessions from innocent people—just one of many, many reasons you probably shouldn't talk to the fuzz without a lawyer.
The Las Vegas casino mogul and former Republican National Committee finance chair was accused of decades of sexual harassment and assault by his employees, including coercing a manicurist to have intercourse with him in 2005.
Another woman told prosecutors that Mr. Weinstein had chased her around his apartment in 2005 after coercing her into stripping down to her underwear, then hid her clothes and masturbated on her, Ms. Illuzzi wrote.
In a January 2018 Medium post, Tucker wrote that Kaiman had pressured her into sex, refusing to leave her apartment and coercing her to continue after she told him clearly that she wanted to stop.
It was made in a recently unsealed filing in an apparently unrelated sex-crimes case charging a man named Seitu Sulayman Kokayi with coercing and enticing an underage person to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
A review of 250 exonerations in New York since 1989 found that one-third involved prosecutorial misconduct, like tampering with key evidence, withholding evidence from the defendant or coercing a witness to give false testimony.
"Directing or coercing a subordinate to perform such activities during nonduty hours constitutes an improper use of public office for private gain," according to the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the executive branch.
The bigger question hanging over the entire impeachment question is whether a majority of Americans believe that coercing a country like Ukraine into cooperation for the sake of the Republican Party is acceptable foreign policy.
That's fine for Fox's audience — they're there for affirmation and talking points — but so far it hasn't had much of an impact on the broader story of Trump coercing Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election.
But while this kind of data might help police bring about justice for some of the grisliest crimes, it could also impinge upon sex workers' privacy, coercing them into handing over information that could be indicting.
Though the Reid Technique has been criticized by criminal-justice reform advocates in the past for coercing suspects into false confessions, the technique's defenders have said that false confessions only occur when the guidelines are abused.
Mr. Fishman said that Mr. Samson, 76, had abused his position at the agency by coercing United to reinstate a canceled route between Newark Liberty International Airport and Columbia, S.C., near one of Mr. Samson's homes.
Over the years, many came to wonder if Apple had not simply created its own "garden of pure ideology" by coercing people to buy Apple products and slavishly following their "geniuses" in those antiseptically white showrooms.
They added that news reports suggest the Trump administration has been deporting parents alone and may be coercing them to waive their legal rights and leave the country in order to be reunited with their children.
After years of tough restrictions on American companies trying to operate in China, including coercing the transfer of proprietary technology, the White House is looking to subject China to similar investment hurdles in the United States.
On May 12, 2013, the Times published a front-page story about Scarcella, co-written by Robles, which mentioned Jennette and Hamilton, and detailed a long history of alleged misconduct, including falsifying confessions and coercing witnesses.
His lawyers maintain that the police were determined to connect him to the shooting of Mr. Nardoni and other crimes on him even if it meant coercing false testimony from other young men in the area.
At the federal level, this could include a domestic-terrorism statute that would allow for the terrorism prosecution of people who commit acts of violence, threats and other criminal activities aimed at intimidating or coercing civilians.
" The American spokeswoman also suggested that witnesses to civilian casualties might have been coerced: "There are multiple Afghan reports from the area of the Taliban coercing and beating local Afghan civilians to allege civilians were killed.
"While the U.S. is coercing China to agree to meet with Trump at the G20, the Kremlin is pleading for a Putin-Trump encounter in whatever format the U.S. would suggest," he wrote on social media.
During his hearing in October, Lloyd admitted to coercing Karrie and that he turned to murder after waging a five-year court battle against Michele for custody of their 14-year-old daughter, the Star-Gazette reported.
And she is in favor of building new jails in New York City and has been known to boast about coercing councilwoman Diana Ayala to do her bidding which includes voting in favor of building new jails.
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged this weekend with coercing young girls into sex acts for money, bringing his alleged relationship with President Donald Trump and a prominent member of his cabinet under the microscope.
"I think our Founding Fathers wanted a First Amendment that prevented the government from coercing you into a religious belief or religious behavior, but the law has gone so far askew from that original intent," Dys said.
Bjorn Samstrom, who lived north of Stockholm, was found guilty of coercing 26 girls and one boy living in the US, Canada, and Britain to perform sex acts in front of their web cams while he watched.
The June 2015 jury award against Wey and his companies followed a trial in a lawsuit accusing Wey of coercing Bouveng into having sex, refusing his further advances and defaming her in a series of blog posts.
Per our sources, they also handed over old emails and texts between them and Mack, as well as audio recordings of R. Kelly allegedly coercing Joycelyn into lying about her situation if authorities ever talked to her.
In those cases, America's economic might, and its status as world financial capital, allows it to use economic sanctions as a tool for nonviolently coercing other states to either stop their bad behavior or make necessary concessions.
He is now part of a class-action lawsuit accusing the university of discriminating against students with mental health issues by coercing them into taking leaves of absence, rather than trying to meet their needs on campus.
Confusion and inconsistent enforcement have prevailed, with Border Patrol agents being accused of coercing lawful permanent residents into relinquishing their green cards, detaining people without access to legal counsel, and interrogating people extensively about their religious background.
Prosecutors in New York have relied solely on the often harrowing accounts from these women to show jurors that Weinstein was a sexual predator with a pattern of manipulating and coercing women into nonconsensual and degrading acts.
"Coercing nations into complying with the United States' illegal demands threatens multilateralism, as the foundation of international relations, and sets a dangerous precedent, paving the way for those who aspire to rather divide, not unite, nations," he wrote.
Former Saturday Night Live star Chris Kattan has accused producer Lorne Michaels of coercing him into having sex with Clueless director Amy Heckerling in order to keep Heckerling attached to Kattan's 1998 film A Night At the Roxbury.
She says a lot of the policy in place surrounding things like the month-long waiting periods and signed permission forms months in advance were originally meant to prevent doctors from coercing women into sterilization against their will.
America will find salvation by giving more power to law enforcement, he argues, using each speech to pivot to the issues of the day: more mandatory prison terms, increasing property seizures, coercing cities into handing over undocumented immigrants.
It's not a song about the music industry, specifically, but given the vast history of older, famous men in music having relationships (or coercing, or starting alleged sex cults) with underage groupies and fans, it feels incredibly timely.
Former World Trade Organization head Pascal Lamy called Trump's approach to coercing its neighbor and ally "hostage-taking," reflecting widely held concerns in Mexico that the U.S. president will come back with more threats to extract greater concessions.
In some cases, that can all fall apart: Bleeblu, a popular photographer based in the US, was accused of coercing a teenage model into nude photoshoots in public places last year on Tumblr (allegations he has publicly denied).
In a 111-page decision, Gardephe also upheld the jury's finding of liability in the lawsuit, which accused Wey of coercing Bouveng into having sex, refusing his further advances and defaming her in a series of blog posts.
The state legislature will convene on May 18 to consider discipline against Greitens, who has been accused of coercing a woman into sexual acts and improperly obtaining a donor list from a charity and then lying about it.
The bill proposed by Jens Spahn, who is openly gay, would punish those carrying out conversion therapy on under-18s, or coercing, deceiving or threatening anyone older into such treatment, punishable by up to a year in prison.
On both sides, economic hostility has been driven recently by accusations, counter-accusations, and ongoing investigations into China's practice of coercing American companies to hand over advanced technology and other intellectual property as a price for doing business.
One of the so-called geniuses named in the piece was former Android head Andy Rubin, who left Google in 2014 with a $90 million exit package after being accused of coercing a coworker to perform oral sex.
Unlike many of the convictions reviewed by Thompson's Conviction Review Unit, the Hatchett case was not connected to Louis Scarcella, a now-retired New York City homicide detective who has been accused of coercing false confessions from suspects.
I relived this salaciousness a little these past few weeks, consuming the Weinstein revelations myself with something not unlike excitement, reading the details, listening with horrified fascination to the recorded audio of him coercing a woman he had assaulted.
" Ivan Lam Long-yin, chairman of the pro-democracy Demosisto party, said his group was opposed to the bill because it "would curtail the freedom of expression and have the city coercing citizens into expressing loyalty to the regime.
Grooming involves befriending children, mostly aged 11 to 15, to gain their trust, before luring or coercing them to send sexual images or videos of themselves, which are shared online on password-only group networks and websites, experts said.
Asked about the complaint, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, referred to the July 31 Senate testimony of Matt Albence, an executive associate director at ICE, who denied that ICE officers were coercing parents to be deported.
Ashwani Mahajan, who heads the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, said PepsiCo was "coercing" the farmers by using legal action to force them to either sell their output to the company or to stop growing the FC5 potato variety at all.
"What happened to Juan and Rosendo shows that Reynaldo Guevara wasn't just a lazy detective who cut corners by coercing confessions and false eyewitness testimony," wrote Dan Stohr, an attorney for Rosendo Hernandez, in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
Democrats accused Trump of trying to cheat in the 2020 presidential election by coercing a foreign ally to smear his possible opponent with the stain of a criminal probe while withholding nearly $400 million in military aid to Kyiv.
The program is currently being challenged in India's Supreme Court, but that hasn't stopped the government from coercing people to sign up by linking it to essential services such as food subsidies, bank accounts, health insurance, and cellphone numbers.
The only way you could think that a military strike would work in terms of coercing North Korea would be if you calculated that North Korea would not retaliate in way way that could escalate into a general war.
"The formation of alliances between adult males for the purposes of coercing females is uncommon, since mating success cannot be shared," said co-author Stephanie King, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia.
In 2016, she led a case against an 18-year-old who the office accused of coercing a middle-school-aged girl to send him nude photographs over the app Kik, threatening to post other pictures of the girl.Tip?
Mr. Greitens, accused of making threats and sexually coercing a woman with whom he was having an affair, had for months refused to resign, raising Democratic hopes that they could use him to tar the Republican ticket this fall.
Under the guise of altruism and self-improvement, NXIVM leader Keith Raniere and his "inner circle" of celebrities and heiresses secretly ran an insidious sex cult, coercing and blackmailing women into becoming "sex slaves" for "masters" in the movement.
Moscow, desperate not to be marginalized by Beijing, is coercing regional states to join its Eurasian Economic Union, and has also launched a fanciful vision of a "Greater Eurasia" in which all would be subordinated to Russia and China.
And Trump's options for coercing payment from Mexico are limited and disruptive -- increasing border crossing fees and slashing aid would do little to cover the cost, and seizing remittance payments and imposing an import tax would have serious macroeconomic consequences.
Lawmakers voted unanimously to remove Comptroller Edgar Alarcon from his post for allegedly directing public funds to the mother of his children, violating ethics rules by running a business in office and coercing an auditor to withhold information from Congress.
"If the Vietnamese government is coercing your companies to aid and abet censorship, this is an issue of concern that needs to be raised diplomatically and at the highest levels," the Congressional Vietnam Caucus said in a letter seen by Reuters.
The letter arrives days after the first anniversary of a historic 20,000 employee walkout protesting Google's $90 million payout to Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android, who had been accused of coercing an employee to perform oral sex in 2013.
On Monday, lawmakers voted unanimously to remove Alarcon for "serious misconduct" for allegedly directing public funds to the mother of his children, violating ethics rules by running a business while in office, and coercing an auditor to withhold information from Congress.
"House Democrats are investigating whether Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have been attempting to persuade Ukraine to aid Trump's 223 reelection bid by coercing "the Ukrainian government into pursuing two politically-motivated investigations under the guise of anti-corruption activity.
But here's the key thing I gleaned working with Evelyn Murphy on her 2005 book Getting Even, which explored the gender-wage gap in the United States: Yes, serially groping, grabbing, coercing, and assaulting women is disgusting, cruel, and criminal.
At its tamest, clowns wobbled into each other in tedious pranks; at its most inhumane, elephants were beaten into submission at the command of men whose grand designs for entertainment consist of coercing biological miracles to parade around like epileptic ballerinas.
Prompted by a sexual harassment complaint by a former Bridgewater employee, the National Labor Relations Board filed a pending administrative action against the firm this summer saying Bridgewater "has been interfering with, restraining and coercing" employees from exercising their rights.
An updated indictment adds five acts of racketeering and charges the singer and entertainer with four more counts of violating the Mann Act for allegedly coercing and transporting women and girls across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity.
In February, prosecutors also cited a lack of evidence when they dropped a rape investigation in connection with the French film director Luc Besson, who was accused by the Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy of coercing her into unwanted sex.
One feature of privately run centers — the Voluntary Work Program — is the subject of six separate lawsuits, which say that privately run immigrant detention centers are coercing detainees into working for a dollar a day and punishing those who don't.
China's pattern of incursion, including coercing companies to hand over technology, is what helped form the basis for the administration's decision to impose tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports and to more closely scrutinize foreign investment from China.
The potential curbs are part of a broad set of measures the administration says are necessary to combat a growing national security threat from China, which it has accused of pressuring or coercing American companies into handing over valuable trade secrets.
The parents of two former Penn State students, Adam and Denise Lipson, say that they warned administrators in 2014 and 2015 of fraternity hazing that included coercing first-year students to drink to excess, but that their concerns were ignored.
Trump's team has suggested the president withheld the aid because he was concerned about corruption and sharing costs with other nations — not coercing Kyiv into investigating the Biden family, as various witnesses testified during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry last fall.
It's like counterintelligence for the psyche, showing a reverse image of our true fear: that we're slowly programming ourselves into something far less than the existentially free beings which—you might opine—we've spent millennia getting to know and co-coercing into decency.
As part of baseball's new CBA, "requiring, coercing or encouraging" players as "dressing up as women or wearing costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or other characteristic" is now forbidden.
The new allegations of sexual exploitation reportedly accuse him of coercing minors — such as the 1999 Mar-a-Lago locker-room attendant — into giving him "massages" and of then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side or Palm Beach residences.
Sylvester Stallone was accused in 1986 of coercing a woman into a threesome with his bodyguard at a Las Vegas hotel room where she had arrived at the Rocky star's invitation, according to a police report that never resulted in criminal charges.
Raniere and Mack are charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy for allegedly coercing women into joining a secretive master-slave society within Nxivm— where "slaves" were forced to pleasure Raniere, have his initials permanently branded onto their skin and perform free labor.
Raniere and Mack are charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy for allegedly coercing women into joining a secretive master-slave group within Nxivm — where "slaves" were forced to pleasure Raniere, have his initials permanently branded onto their skin and perform free labor.
A five-count indictment handed up in the Eastern District of New York accuses Kelly of sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, forced labor, and the coercing and transportation of women and girls in interstate commerce to engage in illegal sexual activity.
As for the efficacy of coercing Pakistan, even when the United States had imposed widespread sanctions on Pakistan in the 85033s because of Pakistan's nuclear test, the latter was still supporting insurgent groups in Afghanistan and Kashmir … and advancing their nuclear program.
The Times cited a search warrant affidavit as alleging that after coercing the women to get into their squad car with threats of jail, the officers drove their victims to secluded areas where one would demand sex while the other kept watch.
Watch the VICE News documentary America's Election 2016: Immigrant Iowa: Despite the administration's vocal support of sanctuary cities after the shooting, Newman said its crackdown actually continues a longstanding trend of the federal government coercing local law enforcement into helping immigration investigations.
The National Labor Relations Board has filed a separate complaint against Bridgewater, saying that the company "has been interfering with, restraining and coercing" Mr. Tarui and other employees from exercising their rights through confidentiality agreements that all employees are required to sign.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An influential Hindu nationalist group with close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused PepsiCo Inc of coercing four Indian farmers who have been sued by the U.S. company for allegedly infringing a patent.
True leadership is about how you live every minute of your life — working hard, being positive, staying close to your family and friends, learning new things, bringing humility to every situation and persuading people (never forcing or coercing them) to your side.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twelve leaders of a Southern California-based church have been arrested on charges of coercing dozens of mostly homeless people into forced labor, holding them captive and compelling them to panhandle hours a day to collect money for their overseers.
The self-help group Nxivm gained a reputation as a "sex cult" last year after its leader, Keith Raniere, was convicted of coercing some of his female followers into sexual servitude, even creating a ritual in which they were branded with his initials.
In his view, the American people are powerless to remove a President for corruptly using his Office to cheat in the next election by soliciting and coercing a foreign power to sabotage a rival and spread conspiracy theories helpful to the President.
Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon On Friday, the prosecutor sought to draw parallels between the different encounters with Weinstein that spanned decades to show that he was a "seasoned" sexual predator with a pattern of manipulating and coercing women into nonconsensual and degrading acts.
The Chinese authorities, typically relentless in coercing American businesses to publicly apologize in such disputes, no longer appear quite so determined to make the N.B.A. grovel and squirm in fear of losing what has been conservatively estimated at $500 million in annual revenue.
Trump's GOP defenders looking to end his Senate trial in the next few days are increasingly arguing that it's time to shut things down because even if Trump is guilty of coercing Ukraine for political favors, such conduct would not be impeachable.
The revelation comes as Rubin, who was accused of coercing a subordinate into sexual acts while at Google before being given a hero's send-off in 2140, attempts to make a public comeback with Essential Products, the mobile device company he founded.
"If the Vietnamese government is coercing your companies to aid and abet censorship, this is an issue of concern that needs to be raised diplomatically and at the highest levels," the Congressional Vietnam Caucus said in the letter seen by VICE News.
A boss who harasses the woman in the cubicle next to you may not be sexually coercing you or torpedoing your career, but his actions signal that he does not see women as competent co-workers entitled to a rewarding and effective workplace.
Greitens, a Republican, is currently facing a felony charge for invasion of privacy, stands accused of coercing a woman into sex, and, according to the state's attorney general, may have committed a crime by using a charity donor list to solicit campaign funds.
" They said that her involuntary manslaughter conviction was for her "pressuring text messages and phone calls, preying upon well-known weaknesses, fears, anxieties and promises, that finally overcame the willpower to live of a mentally ill, vulnerable, young person, thereby coercing him to commit suicide.
Enrolling for an Aadhaar number isn't mandatory, but for months, India's government has been coercing its citizens to sign up for the program by linking access to essential services like food subsidies, bank accounts, cell phone numbers, and health insurance, among other things, to Aadhaar.
On Monday, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said it was not bound by the 2008 plea deal and accused Epstein of luring dozens of girls, some as young as 14, to his homes in New York and Florida and coercing them into sex acts.
American-born child brides make up a small fraction of the global total, but that doesn't make it any less of a human rights violation: Forcing or coercing anyone, much less a minor, into marriage is a human rights abuse in and of itself.
After years of lobbying, coercing and influencing the Obama administration, their efforts were reversed by the solicitor's opinion and they no longer have a path to use the arbitrary government decisions to wring out money, power and control of American industry and hamstring our economy.
In a superseding indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors accused Raniere, founder of the Albany, New York-based organization Nxivm, of coercing a child to engage in sexual conduct to produce visual depictions of it, and of possessing child pornography between 2005 and 2018.
Preteens and teens, who are often the targets of child traffickers, need to understand traffickers' recruitment tactics, which often involve older men first engaging in a romantic relationship with young girls before coercing or convincing them to engage in sex acts with other men.
Continuing a growing drift towards totalitarian rule, and pursuing anti-American policies in Europe, Northeast Asia, and the Middle East, as well as South America, betrays Moscow's belief that the only way it can secure cooperation with anyone is by threatening, intimidating, and coercing them.
"In the political culture of the United States right now, I would find it difficult to believe that there would be national legislation that would prohibit insurance companies from coercing patients to utilize ectogenesis—assuming, of course, that it's safe and efficacious," he explains.
And although, according to media reports, only four nations – Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone – are on the Trump fix-it list, any action coercing recalcitrant countries to step up and do the right thing is a positive step toward preventing future immigrant crime.
In the case of the two 17-year-olds, the A.C.L.U. wants to stop the government from requiring them to get counseling from "an anti-abortion entity, including a crisis pregnancy center" or coercing them to carry their pregnancies to term, court papers said.
In July, Mr. Gallman pleaded guilty to bribery and witness tampering in a related state case in Queens in which he was charged with paying off or coercing victims who were scheduled to testify against a man on trial for an attempted gunpoint robbery.
Kelly was charged last month in the Eastern District of New York in an indictment that also accused him of violating the Mann Act by coercing and transporting women and girls across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity as far back as 22008.
In Episode 1, the actress portraying Linda Fairstein, a New York prosecutor in 1989, tells police, "Every young black male who was in the park last night is a suspect," leading to the NYPD raiding homes, separating children from parents and coercing stories with physical violence.
The idea is that design — by softly coercing people into walking more and being more active, incorporating nature through bountiful plants and better lighting and creating environments that evoke many different textures and moods through the use of varied materials — can help foster the new ''ethical workplace.
"They told us … this was the only option," said one of the fathers, who spoke on condition that he be identified only by his initials, S.T. At a July 31 congressional hearing, ICE official Matthew Albence denied that officials were coercing people into agreeing to deportation.
McCarrick became one of the highest-ranking Americans to be removed from public ministry amid the global scandal that has engulfed the church after he was publicly accused last year of sexually abusing two children decades ago, as well as coercing adult seminarians to sleep with him.
He had pleaded guilty in October to three counts of willfully depriving the inmates of their Eighth Amendment rights under color of law, three counts of obstruction for coercing the inmates into covering up the assaults and one count of maliciously conveying false information about explosive materials.
Together, the testimonies paint a bleak picture of how immigration officials often interfered with migrants' rights by coercing them into signing paperwork they hadn't had time to read or didn't understand; not informing them of what their actual rights are; and even, in some cases, abusing them.
He also became a darling of some liberal civil liberties advocates during the George W. Bush administration, when, as deputy attorney general, he raced to a Washington hospital to prevent the White House from coercing then-Attorney General John Ashcroft from renewing a warrantless wiretapping program.
Last month, Motherboard reported on how Pornhub promotes and profits from Girls Do Porn, a company accused of coercing dozens of women into having sex on camera and spreading those videos on the internet—including on Pornhub, one of the most popular websites in the world.
"I have the utmost respect and deepest appreciation for the young women who bravely volunteer to serve our country, but I am adamantly opposed to expanding the draft and coercing America's daughters to fight on the front lines," Sessions said in a written statement to The Hill.
In 2017, journalist Jim DeRogatis, who has reported on Kelly for years, published a bombshell piece at Buzzfeed that alleged the R&B singer was operating a "cult" in his home, tightly controlling the lives of women who lived there and coercing them to perform sex acts.
Mr. Nader's and Mr. Zamel's plan dates to the beginning of 2016, when they started discussing an ambitious campaign of economic warfare against Iran similar to one waged by Israel and the United States during the past decade aimed at coercing Iran to end its nuclear program.
The board in a 3-1 decision said medical courier service Velox Express Inc did not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) just by telling its drivers that they were independent contractors, because it was merely expressing a legal opinion and not threatening or coercing them.
Another ally of Mr. Christie, David Samson, pleaded guilty this year to abuse of his power as chairman of the Port Authority, for coercing United Airlines to operate regular flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and an airport near Mr. Samson's weekend home in South Carolina.
"A president coercing a foreign government into targeting American citizens is not just another example of scorched earth politics, it serves as an invitation to the enemies of the United States to come after any citizen, so long as they disagree with the President," freshman Rep.
The request for an investigation will focus on Beijing's practices of coercing American companies doing business in China to partner with local firms, which require them to turn over proprietary technological secrets as part of what American officials described as a coordinated effort to steal intellectual property.
At the time, Mr. Epstein was exploiting dozens of girls he had plucked from high schools and shopping malls in Florida, luring them to his Palm Beach mansion and coercing them into giving him erotic massages through false promises, cash payments and threats, according to court records.
Trump's dismissal of Carroll's allegation is numbingly rote by now: "it never happened;" he never met her (a lie, given a published photograph which he appears with her and his ex-wife, Ivana Trump, who similarly described his violently coercing her into having sex while they were married).
The episode hinted at how badly a string of testimony by senior and former foreign policy officials is hurting Trump as Democrats investigate whether he abused his power by coercing Ukraine to dig up dirt on 2016 Democrats and his potential 2020 political foe, former Vice President Joe Biden.
"Last year for the first time Congress drastically limit the deduction imposing an enormous burden on taxpayers in our states through a law that was deliberately aimed at coercing New York and similar states to change their taxation and fiscal policies," New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood (D) said.
But coercing registered refugees into returning home against their will violates the international legal prohibition against refoulement -- not to forcibly return or pressure anyone into returning to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, torture or other ill-treatment, or a threat to life.
Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor for "coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay," the Department of Justice said in a release.
Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor for "coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay," according to a press release from the Justice Department.
In a case that could test the online pornography industry, the owners and two employees of two popular pornographic websites were charged this week in San Diego with sex trafficking and other crimes, accused of coercing several women to engage in sex videos that were posted on the internet.
By coercing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy into publicly announcing the commencement of such an investigation, Trump hoped to reap the benefits of having his top electoral rival mired in corruption allegations—suspicions that would be easy to magnify in the ambient glow of the media's horse-race election coverage.
In the lawsuit that was filed Monday, Ras Baraka (D), the mayor of Newark — the largest city in New Jersey — accused de Blasio's Special One-Time Assistance (SOTA) program of coercing homeless New Yorkers across the Hudson River and into New Jersey to find permanent housing, Reuters reports.
To the extent that a "sickout" is a strike -- defined by state law as the "concerted failure" to show up for work "for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in employment conditions, compensation, or the rights, privileges, or obligations of employment" -- it might not be legal either.
That's why Rise, with its less-than-qualified teacher randomly taking over a high school performance program — and said teacher coercing a secretly talented football player into joining his musical — shouldn't be compared to This Is Us. Instead, Rise, is much closer to Glee, but for the age of Donald Trump.
But the most horrifying scandal began earlier this year, when a woman accused Greitens of coercing her to perform oral sex, undressing, kissing and touching her without her consent, and threatening to release a nude photo of her if she told anyone about their encounter, which took place in 21.975.
"When we see people making the bail, we see that women are going into tremendous debt and are also beholden to an industry that has time and time again been cited and known to practice in quite an incredibly despicable way in terms of coercing and harassing their customers," Clayton says.
Additionally, the New York Times quotes two former priests—Robert Hoatson, who runs a recovery center for those sexually abused by the clergy, and Richard Sipe, who studies these cases of sexual abuse—who allege that McCarrick had been coercing seminarians to sleep with him throughout the 80s and 90s.
" The White House in May had issued a blistering statement calling on China "to stop threatening and coercing American carriers and citizens" and added that President Donald Trump "will stand up for Americans resisting efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to impose Chinese political correctness on American companies and citizens.
" The White House in May had issued a blistering statement calling on China "to stop threatening and coercing American carriers and citizens" and added that President Donald Trump "will stand up for Americans resisting efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to impose Chinese political correctness on American companies and citizens.
Opponents of the law say that hastening death is morally wrong, that the law puts all kinds of patients at risk of loved ones' coercing them to end their lives, and that it could become a way out for people who are not insured or who fear high medical bills.
"When They See Us," a new miniseries on Netflix, can be so infuriating that it's hard to watch — especially its first hour, which depicts the arrest of the teenaged boys who became known as The Central Park Five, and shows police detectives coercing them into confessing to a brutal rape.
As an FBI agent who served a quarter-century in the business of coercing and impelling cooperation of mobsters and gangbangers and terrorists, reminding someone that they will never see the light of day from their prison cell again unless they cooperate, may be legally defined as "psychological pain," no?
A mysterious man told two of the country&aposs most powerful lawyers that he could give them access to the late Jeffrey Epstein&aposs data, including incriminating evidence of the financier&aposs famous associates with the women – many of whom were underage – that Epstein was accused of coercing and trafficking.
After eight days of testimony and almost two days of deliberations, War Machine, who changed his name from Jonathan Koppenhaver, was found guilty on 29 of 34 charges -- including domestic violence, sexual assault, kidnapping and coercing witnesses -- in the beatings of porn star Christy Mack and her friend Corey Thomas in August 2014.
Though the irony here comes because in Facebook's own case it's already facing legal challenges to the consent flows it's designed for GDPR — with early complaints filed against the eponymous Facebook platform and two other Facebook-owned services, Instagram and WhatsApp, alleging they are subverting the rules by coercing consent from users.
The 39-year-old Bronfman is a daughter of the late billionaire philanthropist and former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr. She has been involved in financing NXIVM (NEHK&apos-see-uhm) and supporting its co-founder, Keith Raniere, who&aposs accused of coercing followers into becoming "slaves" to senior members of the group.
Both the idea of a Gulf-to-Pacific border wall and the idea of coercing Mexico into paying for it suffer from essentially insurmountable technical problems, whereas ICE in its current form only dates back to 2003 and clearly the bureaucratic org charts could be redrawn again to get rid of the agency.
"The intentional publication of this blog post has the effect of interfering with, restraining and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights," the union's petition says, noting that in addition to using anti-Semitic slurs to describe leaders of the judges' union, the blog post called for the union to be decertified.
Coercing and constraining the regime's illicit revenue-generating schemes and sanctions-skirting tactics, and embarrassing Pyongyang for its poor track record on human rights — and doing so continually, persistently and collectively with U.S. allies — could be critical to making substantial progress not only on the nuclear issue, but on the overall North Korean threat.
The spokesman also declined to comment on a related complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board that contends the hedge fund "has been interfering with, restraining and coercing" employees like Mr. Tarui from exercising their rights — one of which is the ability to file a complaint or give testimony to the federal labor board.
In response to some of the demands, the city opened up a shelter, but it only had the capacity to hold a sliver of the people, and most immigrants were too distrustful of the local government to go — they had heard rumors of officials forcing or coercing immigrants to leave on buses for southern Mexico.
On the FLA&aposs Facebook page, post after post began to describe Britain as under threat from uncontrolled immigration or menaced by "grooming gangs" of Muslim men sexually exploiting teenage girls across Britain — a narrative driven by trials in several British cities in which men of mostly Pakistani origin were convicted of coercing girls and women into sex.
In 1993, the Japanese government issued an apology, known as the Kono statement, that acknowledged for the first time that its military had been at least indirectly involved in coercing women into sexual slavery during World War II. Later, a fund was set up by private donors in Japan that made payments to some comfort women in Asian countries.
While someone like Harvey Weinstein has been expelled from his industry after mostly white women came forward with stories of his harassment and abuse, many black women have pointed out that R. Kelly — who has been accused of coercing, manipulating, and preying on young black women and girls for the past 25 years — has not experienced similar widespread condemnation.
His backers praised him for weakening the kingdom's once-feared religious police, vowing to diversify the economy away from oil and lifting restrictions on women, while critics took him to task for cracking down on dissidents, coercing the resignation of Lebanon's prime minister and locking hundreds of princes and businessmen in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton on accusations of corruption.
It's still up on his website, in fact, and it explains that coercing Mexico into paying for the wall will be a simple matter of invoking Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act to "issue detailed regulations" under 31 CFR § 130.120-121 to block remittance payments from unauthorized residents of the United States back to friends and family in Mexico.
Reuters was unable to determine exactly how many times the work of inspectors has been hampered, but Syrian tactics have included withholding visas, submitting large volumes of documents multiple times to bog down the process, last-minute restrictions on site inspections and coercing certain witnesses to change their stories during interviews, four diplomats and inspectors involved in the process told Reuters.
No matter how many migrants the law draws into the Syrian conflict, or how many it winds up granting Iranian citizenship, the idea that Iran is coercing a marginalized peoples, many of whom cannot go back to Afghanistan for fear of their lives and whom need support, into entering a deadly war zone just for a vague chance at human dignity is disturbing, to say the least.
The suit also accuses the New Hampshire institution of failing to create an environment free from gender-based discrimination, in violation of Title IX. Tenured professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen are accused of turning the school's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences into a "21st Century Animal House," treating women as sex objects, groping and also coercing them into drinking, according to the complaint.
In a couple of dramatic tweets, backed up by a briefing call featuring acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy aimed at coercing Mexico into halting the flow of Central American asylum seekers into the United States — a 5 percent tax on Mexican imports rising steadily to 25 percent unless Mexico cracks down on migration.
In 0003, the Department of Education launched an investigation into Corinthian colleges and found a pattern of misleading students and coercing them into taking out federal student loans to pay for an education that would get them nowhere: Students who wanted to transfer often came up against the fact that no other institution would take their credits and the Department uncovered that Corinthian dubiously inflated their job placement rates.
The nine women, all current or former Dartmouth students, filed suit in November 2018 seeking $70 million in damages from the school for violating Title IX. Three former professors -- Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen -- were referenced in the lawsuit and accused of turning the school's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences into a "21st Century Animal House," treating women as sex objects, groping and also coercing them into drinking.
As part of the latest five-year collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' union, a new anti-hazing and anti-bullying policy was created that will end the practice of "requiring, coercing or encouraging players from dressing up as women or wearing costumes that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identify or other characteristic," according to The Associated Press.
The crimes, according to a copy of the amendment obtained by The Hill, would include offenses relating to carjacking with the intent of series injury or death, coercing a child to engage in prostitution or any sexual activity, and any felony crime that with more than a one-year sentence that includes using or threatening to use force against a person or property, or that "involved a substantial risk" that force would have been used.
Donald Trump's key premise from the moment he announced his candidacy was just the opposite — it was time to stop being PC and start getting tough; stop sympathizing with the motives of the undocumented and start calling them murderers and rapists; stop worrying about the practical and humanitarian aspects of mass deportation and start promising it; stop worrying about making nice with Mexico and start talking about coercing Mexico into paying for the wall.
In December, her attorney Donna Clancy filed an amended complaint asking the court to void not just the confidentiality provision included in Evans&apos separation agreement, but also the nondisclosure agreements of any "similarly situated members of her protected classes" who may have claims against Bloomberg LP. The complaint accuses Bloomberg LP of fraudulently coercing employees to sign agreements that were vague, misleading, filled with misstatements and omissions, and written in a manner that an average employee would find difficult to understand.
What we see of their current schemes are mostly empty acts of protest theater, like sawing the brass testicles off the Wall Street bull; petty harassment of E Corp executives, like commandeering the software of their top lawyer's "smart home" and blasting the stereo and air conditioner until she's forced to flee; or a combination of the two, like coercing the chief technology officer Scott Knowles (a terrifically tense Brian Stokes Mitchell) to wear one of their trademark moneyman masks and light $5.9 million on fire in the middle of Battery City Park.
And we have been able to do it because, for all the vicissitudes of the Cold War and globalization and the war on terrorism, Americans have broadly understood that great nations, like great institutions and great citizens, lead by example: by inspiring rather than coercing loyalty; by a decent respect for the opinions of mankind; by steadfastness of purpose and evenness of temperament; by the understanding that a policy of magnanimity and benevolence will, if nothing else, provide us with the friends, and the self-belief, needed in times of adversity.
" It is also banned by a U.N. convention ratified by the U.S., which defines torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.

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