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If someone twists my arm very moderately until I agree to tell her a secret I have not thereby been tortured, even if we accept that the reason I speak is to stop the pain and that my coercer has thereby forced me to betray myself.

"You have shown yourself to be a risk-taker, a manipulator, a psychological coercer and a serious and persistent abuser of children over a period of 24 years," said Lord Beckett.

coercer and coerced are conditioned by one another.

Daniel Byman and Mathew Waxman in their book The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might state that coercive threats are less likely to succeed if the coercer does not achieve escalation dominance.

(Lukose, 2018) In the #MeToo era, employers are more eager to dismiss top tormentors following an investigation, thus hindering other employees from being disturbed, eliminating pressures on the sufferer's career, which might, under other conditions, be jeopardized via a perpetual reporting relationship to the coercer or an assignment to another department, calming the injured party down, making them less prone to openly denounce the harassment, and offering a plausible narrative regarding the employer's reaction if the persecution is subsequently publicly uncovered.

Newly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I3VUxiyaSE) resurfaced footage shows Gwyneth Paltrow alleging that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was a coercer in 1998.

a significant part of the coercer's demands; (2) economic

Because the punishment is not inflicted all at once, the coercer "may interrupt operations temporarily in order to provide time for reflection or negotiation or to reward the target state for concessions, thus encouraging minor demonstrations or willingness to accommodate the [perpetrator's] demands as well as major concessions." (16)

it would throw the weight of the community behind the aims of the coercer, even though the moral argument for fidelity does not establish any moral right or claim of the promisee to performance" (p.

The letter quotes this comment by the court: "Unlike the general marketplace where the power to coerce a customer to accept a tying arrangement is directly related to the market power of the proposed coercer, the banking industry, the power to coerce is inherent in the banking relationship itself, regardless of an individual bank's market power."