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Indeed, Mr. Reed is almost immediately identified as a Very Bad Guy, who draws two likable young Mormons to his home by expressing interest in their church, then locks them in, communications severed from the outside world, for a coerced and increasingly menacing TED Talk that culminates with a direct challenge of faith.

However, other MPs, including Health Secretary Wes Streeting, have raised concerns people could feel coerced into taking their own lives and said they will vote against the bill.

From BBC

The following day, Hoover issued a statement explaining that he had acted to prevent the government from being “coerced by mob rule.”

Streeting told BBC Breakfast on Tuesday that he was "concerned about the risk of people being coerced into taking their own lives sooner than they would have liked, or feeling... guilt-tripped, feeling like a burden".

From BBC

In her telling, she had been coerced and her lawyers had pressured her to take the money.

From Slate

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

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