Sentences with phrase «against coercive»

An organization for professionals and families associated with attachment therapy, the Association for the Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children, has also issued statements against coercive practices.

She claims to be against the coercive influence of big business, but in its place, she would put an authoritarian government that would regulate your freedom to travel, to buy things, and coerce you into observing an «environmentally friendly» lifestyle.

They lived in sovereign states, and in their view this war was not about «rebellion» but about defending their homeland against coercive foreigners.

In a piece on her campaign site blog, Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Tiffany Briscoe speaks out against coercive social conservatives.

Still, his insistence that politics is not therapy, his resolute refusal to deny the reality of conflicts among social goods, and his insistence that utopian politics inevitably become coercive politics (and, in the modern world, extraordinarily brutal coercive politics) were all important ideas to defend, in Europe and America, against the coercive utopians of the twentieth century.

But the sexual revolution has not been a revolution against coercive sexuality.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

Not exact matches

First, the Trump administration ramps up coercive action against North Korea, and this precipitates a crisis in US - China relations,» the firm wrote.

«It saw clearly the contrast between the state, with its coercive power, and the church - and the importance of the freedom of the church against the state, especially where the state tries to control it,» Bennett said.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

«Jesus chose the power of God's weakness over against the ultimate weakness of coercive human power.

In fact, it seems fair to say that the most common criticism process theists level against the God of classical free will theism is the claim that if such a being really existed and were wholly good, we should expect to see displays of divine coercive power more often.

Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing of rights against rights on the other.

But the significance of such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private conscience which can at any time become social fact.»

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

Generally speaking, this poses no problem as long as both the persuasive and the coercive elements are balanced against one another, and the only issue concerns the relative importance of each.

I rebelled against the stifling and coercive religion into which I was born and bred.

Is the charge of anti-Semitism against political critics of Israel being employed as a coercive tactic?

Above all, the coercive power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.

We limited those coercive powers, I'm happy to say — not with any help from the government, because the government voted against the amendment to limit the coercive powers, which was ostensibly the intended purpose of the bill.

But there was even an effort in that legislation that was being proposed by the government to ensure that we would see coercive powers used against workers rather than used against employers who were intentionally underpaying those workers or other workers in the labour market.

It's good that we now have laws against forced marriage and coercive control.

The SAR report also documents the use of deliberate coercive legal authority to wrongfully prosecute or imprison outspoken scholars by conjuring blasphemy, defamation, terrorism, and lèse - majesté (against the crown) laws.

To go up against the ideological state apparatuses (that also have coercive practices such as non-promotion and systems of privilege for those who follow the rules) and the repressive state apparatuses (that are also coercive in that they secure internal unity and social authority ideologically via patriotism and nationalism) is not an easy task.

Last week, Brown spoke out against a bill that imposes what she considers to be «coercive abortion screening,» as it requires doctors to affirmatively determine if a woman is being coerced into having an abortion.

To the extent that the government can use its coercive power to define elements of an offense, render a judgment against you (in civil court) and enforce it, as cpast observes, it is government action.

In this one, landlord had to bring a «coercive» declaratory relief action against a commercial tenant based on winning a prior action in which tenant was only allowed to use common areas behind its store for loading / unloading purposes only.

But the major issue with his case is that the supposed evidence held against him had been destroyed by CSIS, and was likely unreliable in the first place, gained in part at least through coercive measures.

The main drawback of a soft - hardfork is that it can be applied against the wish of users; in that sense, it's somewhat coercive.

There were nineteen lawsuits against CPCs between 1983 and 1996, but coercive practices persist.

Many victims of coercive behaviour don't recognise that they're experiencing abuse, and may not know that this kind of behaviour is against the law.

Although research findings on prevalence are inconclusive, they generally find that women and men report similar levels of violence when the contexts, motives and consequences are not considered.6 When they are considered, studies assessing IPV perpetrated by men compared to women often report gender differences regarding the types of violence, reasons for the violence, context in which the violence occurs and consequences of the violence.6, 7 For example, studies assessing differences in IPV find men's violence against women to be more severe, threatening and controlling8 — 10 and involve longer - lasting victimisation, fear of bodily injury or death, more injuries and more adverse health effects.5, 11, 12 It has also been found that women tend to use physical violence out of anger, not being able to get the partner's attention or in self - defence and retaliation, 11 whereas men often use it as a means to exercise coercive control.13, 14

Early behavioural research pointed to the negative impact of «coercive» parenting practices in escalating negative child behaviours (Patterson 1989), and more recent research has shown that positive, proactive parenting (involving praise, encouragement and affection) is strongly associated with high child self - esteem, cognitive ability and social and academic competence, and is protective against later disruptive behaviour and substance misuse (Kumpfer 2004; Byford 2012).

Under s. 76 of the U.K.'s Serious Crimes Act, controlling or coercive behaviour is defined as causing someone to fear that violence will be used against them on at least two occasions, or generating serious alarm or distress that has a substantial effect on their usual day - to - day activities.

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).

He cautioned REALTORS ® at the Real Property Valuation Forum against telling appraisers anything that could be construed as coercive.

REALTOR ® leaders of an earlier era pushed back against requirements that they believed represented the «coercive power of the state.»