Sentences with phrase «against coercion»

Offering an unrestrained choice of contraceptive methods — or the choice to use no method at all — is essential to guarding against coercion.

The United States has a long and troubling history of coercive policies and practices around reproductive health, particularly for low - income women and women of color (see «Guarding Against Coercion While Ensuring Access: A Delicate Balance,» Summer 2014).

As Lyle Denniston recounted at SCOTUSblog, Kagan had contended that the ruling was no longer needed «given the purposes of the Sixth Amendment and the existence of other strong protections against coercion.»

The group of former staffers, which includes Leah Hebert, Tori Burhans Kelly and Rita Pasarell, all of whom were sexually harassed by former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, said the package does not adequately protect against coercion.

He describes the demand of love as a pure ideal standing against all coercion and conflict.

He emphasizes persuasion over against coercion.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

Not exact matches

A third lawsuit has been filed against Atlanta - based megachurch pastor Eddie Long, alleging coercion, deception and manipulation that involved a sexual relationship with a young male, CNN has learned.

The forms of legal coercion such as laws against bigamy, age limits for consent to marriage, the husband's moral economic obligations to support the wife, and so on are the province of the community as a whole.

Whatever the motives, mainline Protestants lent their influence to an arsenal of coercion described in painstaking detail in Edwin Black's War Against the Weak.

Overwhelmingly the teaching of both Jesus and Paul counts against any resort to violence or coercion.

Against this, revolutionary coercion, including violent coercion, is sometimes justified.»

They were able to introduce their measure as a secular and rational initiative directed against religious coercion.

Not against its or his free decision, that is to say; for in that case it would be coercion and hence literally nothing worth doing would be accomplished.

In its plain meaning, reproductive rights can be reasonably understood as a right to reproduce (for example, against forced sterilizations), a right to refuse sexual relations (i.e. against rape or sexual coercion), and a right to receive medical care related to reproduction without being restricted due to taboos, sexism, etc..

On campus is a spirit of fear and coercion NOT TO DISSENT AGAINST WHAT THEY SAY AND SPEAK UP AS A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT.

This coercion is done in the name of tolerance (and against bigotry), but ignores the need for a place of sanctuary for those who disagree.

But sins, I will admit, can become an excuse for terrible forms of coercion, and strictures against sin often tend to blot out the goods that the strictures hope to serve.

See ACCC Media Release, «ACCC takes court action against the CFMEU alleging secondary boycott and undue harassment or coercion» (20 November 2014) See also Michael Janda, «ACCC launches court action against CFMEU for Boral secondary boycott» (ABC News, 20 November 2014)

BE has written at least a couple of articles on the accusations against him and some of his students (rape, sexual harassment, coercion...).

Removing laws and stigmas against it will allow true victims of domestic violence, coercion, etc. to get help as they and their witnesses will be more forthcoming with law enforcement.

Veterans of the last debate think most of these would be won over by a more subtle argument against right - to - die: the fear of coercion.

A state Supreme Court justice Tuesday upheld a felony - coercion charge against Giridhar Sekhar, of FA Technology Ventures, who allegedly sought to force a top aide to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to place a $ 25 million pension - fund investment with his firm.

Pryce claimed a marital coercion defence against claims she took speeding penalties from her then husband.

Pryce is relying on a defence of marital coercion against allegations she took Huhne's speeding points over a March 2003 incident when his car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 motorway between Stansted Airport and London.

ALBANY — A judge has upheld a felony coercion charge against an investment manager accused of trying to secure a major state pension contract by threatening to expose an alleged extramarital affair of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's chief counsel.

All true, but these achievements have to be set against his support for coercion in Ireland and the massive corruption through the sale of honours.

The United Nations defines violence against women as «any act of gender - based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.»

Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN)- There may be more victims in the case against 81 year old Robert Kendzia, a Niagara Falls pharmacist accused of coercion.

The payment offers an undue incentive, coercion that pits abject poverty against a global capitalist enterprise.»

«While there is [certainly] too much violence and legal coercion used against scholars worldwide,... the primary threat is isolation.

Prohibition against retaliation and coercion.

protected against arbitrary action, personal favoritism, or coercion for partisan political purposes, and

Since the NAACP case in 1958, the Supreme Court has recognized the First Amendment right of advocacy organizations to maintain the confidentiality of their private donors, precisely in order to protect the donors against government coercion.

This is the fallacy of contemporary left - wing politics: you kids want the «gravy» of fundamentally theological entities (right and wrong) without any of the «grief» of maintaining coherent theological narratives — you rely on little more than coercion and force, often enacted against children, in order to keep them on the «right path.»

Lawyers must be vigilant against overreaching or subtle coercion when it comes to any contact with the client, and morality - driven conversations are no exception.

In the U.S., after a federal racketeering trial, which Chevron Corp. initiated against those that procured the fraudulent judgment in Ecuador, a federal court found the Ecuadorian judgment to be the product of «egregious fraud,» as well as bribery, coercion and political interference.

(Directive 2004 / 38 / EC — Right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States — Protection against expulsion — Concepts of «public policy» and «public security» — Concept of «imperative grounds of public security» — Criminal conviction for sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape)

More particularly, since the Court acknowledged in the judgment in Tsakouridis, that the fight against trafficking in narcotics as part of an organised group is capable of being covered by that concept, the question here is whether an act carried out alone, such as that committed by Mr I. in the main proceedings, namely sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape, is also capable of being covered by that concept.

(a) «Domestic violence» means an act of violence or a threatened act of violence upon a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship, and may include any act or threatened act against a person or against property, including an animal, when used as a method of coercion, control, punishment, intimidation, or revenge directed against a person with whom the actor is or has been involved in an intimate relationship.

For example, the wire's padded connection at the mouse end scrapes against its hard plastic edges without much coercion, which could wear it down over time.

Examination of these records against exclusion criteria yielded 11 studies that focused on the associations between attachment orientation and perpetration of sexual coercion (n = 3), sexual coercion victimization (n = 3), or both perpetration and victimization (n = 5).

This connection between informed contraceptive choice and protecting against reproductive coercion is explicitly recognized in federal family planning policies.

Unlike other forms of intimate partner violence (e.g., situational couple violence), which often arise in the context of interpersonal conflict and tend to involve minor forms of physical aggression, CCV involves physical violence that is associated with a chronic pattern of emotionally abusive intimidation, coercion, and control directed by one partner (the perpetrator) against the other (the victim)(e.g., Johnson, 1999, 2008; Kelly & Johnson, 2008).

The settlement has become a key element of the controversy surrounding Steve Wynn, who was the subject of a Wall Street Journal expose on Jan. 26 that detailed various allegations of sexual harassment and coercion against the casino magnate.