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He said doctors had a legal right to strike and should not be "bullied or coerced" into working.

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A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.

His supporters say that in the days following his arrest in Jalandhar, he was tortured and coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.

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Australian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence - against themselves, their siblings or pets - in a "twisted type of gamification", police have warned.

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During the year of abuse Davies also encouraged or coerced his victim into filming herself committing acts of self-harm and bought her razors to facilitate this.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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