Sentences with phrase «as unequal power»

Artists based outside of Africa, exploring territory such as unequal power structures and socio - political constructs, have been exhibited in South Africa at Goodman Gallery for the first time.

Artists based outside of Africa, exploring territory such as unequal power structures and socio - political constructs, have been exhibited in South Africa at the Goodman Gallery for the first time.

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Undue influence, as I understand it, is a situation where the parties involved have unequal power.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

She rightly saw the distrust between men and women as being rooted in the unequal distribution of power between them: «At any given time, the more powerful side will create an ideology suitable to help maintain its position and to make this position more acceptable to the weaker one... It is the function of such an ideology to deny or conceal the existence of a struggle.»

«It's not a secret that this business has a very unequal power struggle and that women have been taken advantage of and preyed upon for as long as its inception.

As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unequal ways, concerns such as human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and lanAs the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unequal ways, concerns such as human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and lanas human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and land.

«Apart from considerations of illegality, agreements to pay Form Fillers in circumstances of unequal bargaining power and where an improvident deal was made, such as the two examples in the record before this court, are unconscionable and therefore voidable at the instance of the instance of the claimants who entered them.»

If the exclusion clause applies, the second issue is whether the exclusion clause was unconscionable at the time the contract was made, «as might arise from situations of unequal bargaining power between the parties» (Hunter, at p. 462).

Isaac says that, when deciding if a couple make good candidates for collaborative practice, she looks for red flags such as relationships with unequal power dynamics, which are common in relationships that experience domestic violence.

Iacobucci J. went on to point out that this unequal balance of power in an employment relationship led the Supreme Court of Canada, in Slaight Communications Inc. v. Davidson, 1989 CanLII 92 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1038, to recognize employees as a vulnerable group in society.

Constitutional law framed the legal authority of states — understood as mutually exclusive sites of sovereign power — while international law was engaged in the relentless and relentlessly precarious business of framing legal authority between states (who were in many respect in unequal or even imperial relations inter se).

(b) a person involving the child in a sexual activity with that person or another person in which the child is used, directly or indirectly, as a sexual object by the first - mentioned person or the other person, and where there is unequal power in the relationship between the child and the first - mentioned person.

As it happens, I am in such an unequal relationship, and I am the partner who is holding more power.

As I discuss in Chapter 2, the native title system is currently supported by an unequal power dynamic that promotes the external decision - making processes of governments and breaks down internal decision - making and conflict management processes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

While the negotiation of agreements is commonly touted as the way forward for native title, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Social Justice Commissioner, Dr Bill Jonas, is concerned that given the absence of a lack of effective formal rights for native title claimants and of government commitment to improving those rights, such negotiations often take place from positions of unequal power.