Sentences with phrase «as coercive»

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

The court further ruled that statements made by Premier's attorney could be seen as a coercive attempt to collect a pre-bankruptcy debt, which violated the automatic stay.

Consistent with this hypothesis, there is ample evidence that depressive symptoms, both at a clinical and subclinical level, in fathers and mothers are associated with various maladaptive parenting behaviors such as coercive parenting, overprotectiveness, and low synchrony during parent — child interaction (Lovejoy et al. 2000; McCabe 2014; Wilson and Durbin 2010).

In this brief review article, we summarize existing literature on the form of intimate partner violence known as coercive controlling violence (CCV), domestic abuse, or intimate terrorism.

Maintaining contact between parents and child welfare workers may be particularly challenging, as some families may be resistant to maintaining ongoing relationships with the child welfare system — a system they may perceive as coercive, invasive, or threatening — after a child's return.

«It appears clear the hospital was using the threat of the policy as a coercive attempt to increase the rate of immunizations amongst hospital workers — which was not well received by the arbitrator,» he says.

A judge should not personally participate in membership solicitation if the solicitation might reasonably be perceived as coercive or is essentially a fund - raising mechanism.

[4] While engaged in permitted extrajudicial activities, judges must not coerce others or take action that would reasonably be perceived as coercive.

(3) soliciting membership for such an organization or entity, even though the membership dues or fees generated may be used to support the objectives of the organization or entity, as long as the solicitation can not reasonably be perceived as coercive;

If inclusion becomes a program unto itself, then that is just as coercive as trying to place all children with disabilities in separate schools or classrooms.

Andy Bellin's script also characterises the traditional family as coercive and problematic for women.

It's interesting to note that the NC A&T RD office has been very careful to frame this as a service so it's not seen as coercive.

«Without branding all generals and statesmen as murderers or thieves... a portrait of war makers and state makers as coercive and self - seeking entrepreneurs bears a far greater resemblance to the facts than do its chief alternatives: the idea of a social contract, the idea of an open market... the idea of a society whose shared norms and expectations call forth a certain kind of government.»

Kat: As an adoptee from open adoption, I really appreciate that you talk to them about how it used as a coercive tool.

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

It is our fear of adventure and our obsession with safety that give rise to the projection of God as coercive power.

As such, divine power has been imagined as the coercive, overwhelming, forceful impact of one (active) entity on the (passive) receptivity of a second.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 170) Whitehead replaces the characterization of God as an absolute despot with the Platonic conviction»... that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency.»

These past conditions may sometimes be felt as coercive, but they are not coercive as such.

In Plato's writing, Whitehead found what he proclaimed to be one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion — «that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency» (AI 166).

Many are reminded of abusive church members who have used love as coercive leverage to garner control and power.

Not exact matches

In a letter to Obama at the time, Brennan said he was «a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include water boarding.»

But it's also becoming ever harder for americans employing unilateral coercive diplomacy to convince other important economic actors, allies as well as non-allies, to play along.

These practices should not be confused with coercive tied selling, as defined by the Bank Act.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

This degrading of human lives is evident in proposals for coercive population control, as well as in the return of eugenics in various manipulations of human reproduction.

Indeed, in a day when behaviorism as a psychological theory and coercive collectivism as a social ideal are popular, it may be salutary to recall that, far from being modern, both behaviorism and collectivism were primitive.

He explains: «It is very easy to slip into disdain for people who don't see the evidence for biological evolution or who want to impose their views on others in a coercive way, such as in Muslim majority countries.»

This is particularly the case as issues of poverty become increasingly entwined with drugs and violent crime, which in any case demand immediate coercive interaction by some sanctioned authority.

But if these approaches always showed up in coherent form with coercive intent, as they would in a bloc or a sect, the republic would suffer.

What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.

Christian agencies should be deliberate and overt (though not offensive or coercive) in addressing spiritual needs as well as physical ones.

Indeed, they hand over that public role of theology to the coercive tactics of a resurgent reaction announcing itself as the «Moral Majority.»

Obviously, the church was not innocent of the bloodshed, entangled as it was with coercive power.

Yet, as the cross of Jesus can suggest, the presence of God is, and always has been, invitational rather than coercive, a pull from ahead to which creatures may or may not respond, rather than a push from behind by which they are inevitably compelled.

This is why, Francis insists, we must oppose, not just assaults on the environment, but grave attacks on human rights — such as abortion and coercive population control — and condemn destructive gender ideologies, since «it is not healthy to cancel out sexual difference.»

Coercive power has often been described as «external force.»

On the other hand, the emphasis on coercive control which Hare and Madden exemplify may be taken as reflecting the realization that, after all, not all desires are of the same intensity, etc..

Now we seem to have been brought to a dilemma which prevents us from respecting either persuasive power (because we see it as incompetence) or coercive power.

I understand that the phrase «God loves you too much to leave you as you are» can be and has been used in abusive, coercive and controlling ways.

The author attempts to clarify some important differences between persuasive power and coercive power as encountered in our daily social experiences, and then see how the differences apply in metaphysical discourse.

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.

It is no longer possible to believe that the great central values of Christendom will so commend themselves to the wise and just as to survive without special and even to some degree coercive nurture.

This opened the way to affirming the use of coercive power by humans as well.

This includes defense of religious freedom and the marriage - based family, resistance to evils such as abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, and coercive population control, and a devotion to justice for all, especially for the poor.

If love, in order to be truly effective, must be associated with coercive force — as he indicated was to him essential — then it is apparent that love is not recognized as supreme.

And if and when force is used, let us not hallow it by thinking of God as essentially such coercive power.

Coercive devices such as penalties and rewards become increasingly necessary to keep the wheels turning.

That is, what the commentator marks as «coercive» is presented as a canonical claim, so that the imaginative force of the interpreter remains hidden.

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.