Sentences with phrase «absence of coercion»

On the basis of the interview data, participants subsequently were divided into two relationship groups: (1) a group whose marriages contained physical violence coupled with coercive control (the CCV group) and (2) a group whose marriages contained conflict - motivated physical violence in the absence of coercion and control (the non-CCV or situational violence group).

... Freedom in a broad sense embraces both the absence of coercion and constraint, and the right to manifest beliefs and practices.

... Freedom can primarily be characterized by the absence of coercion or constraint.

A woman choosing place of birth is autonomous if she receives all relevant information on available choices, risks and benefits, is capable of understanding and processing the information and choosing place of birth in the absence of coercion, provided she intends no harm to others and is accountable for the outcome.

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But regarding early abortions, the objective should be persuasion — creating some future majority — rather than legislative coercion in the absence of a current majority.

Since political principles identify the proper relations between humans, and since these relations are not constitutive of happiness, freedom has meant the absence of authority or coercion, i.e., the liberty to pursue happiness without human interference.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

Hence, the necessary conditions of discourse include the absence of external coercion that might influence the contestation or acceptance of claims (cf. Apel, «Types» 342).

Thus, its surrendering any control over that other will be interpreted, by those who understand genuine power to be a form of coercion, as the utter absence or even the «death» of God.

Much of sin gets into the human spirit under the guise of love; but the sin is not always the coercion of the other, it is the perversion of goals, the misuse of power, and the self - justification which grows not from love but from its absence.

Force and coercion represent the absence of love and the irrelevancy of truth, Love is a compelling power which persuasively moves actual entities in their continuing processes of growth.

In all such instances (assuming the absence of sheer coercion) persons feel — or can come to feel — an obligation to justify their behavior.

[T] here is no in stance of sustained defiance of the Court among liberal democracies, despite the absence of meaningful coercion, impact - minimizing behavior is pervasive.

The plea of guilty in any court, the decision of guilty by any court, the forfeiture by the teaching certificateholder of a bond in any court of law, or the written acknowledgment, duly witnessed, of offenses listed in subsection (1) to the district school superintendent or a duly appointed representative of such superintendent or to the district school board shall be prima facie proof of grounds for revocation of the certificate as listed in subsection (1) in the absence of proof by the certificateholder that the plea of guilty, forfeiture of bond, or admission of guilt was caused by threats, coercion, or fraudulent means.

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