The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy.

But even nonviolent transactional relationships, like Lulu's, often involve pleading, nagging and coercive pressure - the man's way of enforcing what he views as an implicit sexual contract.

Justice Kennedy found that isolated warnings usually don't cure the coercive pressures to waive rights.

Justice Hugo Black wrote in the majority opinion that "the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing, officially approved religion is plain."

(Michigan v. Harvey, 1990) The rule ensures that any statement made in subsequent interrogation is not the result of coercive pressures.

Externally, he was striving to preserve his country's military and economic independence in the face of Germany's coercive pressure to join in their invasion of Yugoslavia.

Franz describes repeated urging for adherents to "put kingdom interests first" and devote increasing amounts of time to door-to-door preaching efforts as coercive pressure.

Justice Kennedy said the Mississippi decision was not adequate to protect a suspect against "coercive pressures" to talk to the police.

For them the mainstream with its appropriate patterns of communication and coercive pressure to conform is simply a matter of numeric majority (p. 360).

As we have observed before, there are heightened concerns with protecting freedom of conscience from subtle coercive pressure in the elementary and secondary public schools.