But to unleash an avalanche of charges to coerce a plea to a lesser-included offense is highly questionable.
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It is a way to dance with problems and coerce advantages out of annoyances as well as seemingly disastrous set-backs.
With the advent of Christianity, churches adopted some elements of cult and folk tradition to coerce pagans into the new religion.
Five years ago, Apple somehow managed to coerce a world full of Wintel users to give its smartphone platform a chance.
The exhibit's introduction cites the government's definition of terrorism -- "the unlawful use of force or 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" -- and says its aim is to address how and when Americans felt under threat, and from whom.
The surest sign trouble lies ahead for pensions is the recent effort by some of the largest actuarial and pension consulting firms, including Milliman, Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt, to coerce their pension clients to agree to limitation of liability (LOL) provisions in their contracts.
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All of these business leaders wanted elevated behavior from their employees, the type of contribution that we cannot motivate or coerce from our people.
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Using financial penalties to coerce action is either the equivalent of a mandate or it is not, but the decision seems to take two opposite stances on this question.
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Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech.
Obama is clearly betting that by moving first, he will be able to coerce Netanyahu to make still more concessions of land and principles.
The industry of adventure gear is built on its ability to coerce you into buying something that, at best, is incrementally better than whatever might be in your closet at that moment.
The U.S. says it's going to wait until a formal United Nations deadline expires at the end of this month before seeking any new measures to coerce or punish Iran over its disputed program.
Even though the penalty is in the Internal Revenue Code it is not tax, because Congress did not call it a tax and also the IRS does not have most of the means it uses to collect taxes available to coerce people who choose not to pay the penalty.
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The ultimate power of the president is the power to persuade, not to coerce.
The government may not use threats of loss to all Medicare Medicaid funds as a means to coerce states to adopt incremental changes under the law.
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We do not coerce or judge, but we do objectively expose the consequences of choices.
Even so, Dr Williams was accused of a failure to lead, that is a failure to command, cajole and coerce Anglicans.
But the guidelines emphasise the separation of church and state, reiterating that schools "may not endorse or favour religious activity or doctrine, coerce participation in religious activity or seek to impose their religious beliefs on impressionable children".
The Argentinean daily Clarin reported Saturday that Claudio Lifschitz, a former investigator of the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, claimed he was kidnapped and tortured by elements trying to coerce him into disclosing documents related to the case.
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