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against the blow. This word describes the repercussion of a physical or mental shock, or an indirect consequence of an event. Contre-jour contre-jour against daylight. This word (mostly used in art namely photography, cinema or painting) describes the light that illumines an object from the other side of your own point of view. contretemps
Coercion used as leverage may force victims to act in a way contrary to their own interests. Coercion can involve not only the infliction of bodily harm, but also psychological abuse (the latter intended to enhance the perceived credibility of the threat). The threat of further harm may also lead to the acquiescence of the person being coerced.
Exaction refers not only to extortion or the demanding and obtaining of something through force, [2] [better source needed] but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant. [3] [better source needed]
A person who was condemned to death would forfeit property to the government. People could evade that provision and let the property pass to their heirs by committing suicide prior to arrest. One of the most well-known forced suicides is that of the philosopher Socrates , who drank hemlock after his trial for allegedly corrupting the youth of ...
Janice Harper followed her Huffington Post essay with a series of essays in both The Huffington Post [7] and in her column "Beyond Bullying: Peacebuilding at Work, School and Home" in Psychology Today [8] that argued that mobbing is a form of group aggression innate to primates, and that those who engage in mobbing are not necessarily "evil" or ...
Duress is a threat of harm made to compel someone to do something against their will or judgment; especially a wrongful threat made by one person to compel a manifestation of seeming assent by another person to a transaction without real volition. - Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004) Duress in contract law falls into two broad categories: [6]
Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will. A marriage can also become a forced marriage even if both parties enter with full consent if one or both are later forced to stay in the marriage against their will.
In Indian Penal Code, Section 349 explains the meaning of force as under:- 'A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance such motion, or change of motion, or cessation of motion as brings that substance into contact with any part of that other's body, or with anything which that other is ...