Sentences with phrase «coercion at»

Coercion at signing, if proven, will invalidate the agreement.

This is the height of threats, intimidation and coercion at work!!

Afterwards they are invited (everything is by invitation; there is no coercion at any point) to tell their own abortion story, to connect the pains of the past with the present; and in the telling of these stories, damaged relationships with God, with the unborn child, with family members and the Church are also addressed.

I have not argued that process theists can not consistently allow for the justifiable use of coercion at the human level.

Not exact matches

But others who've worked with the Pakistanis fear coercion could backfire at a time they're hedging their bets, unsure America will win in Afghanistan.

In case you missed it last week, Mark Signorelli over at Front Porch Republic has posted further thoughts on the recent Joe Carter - Jerry Salyer debate, though this time the focus is on authority and coercion in legitimate government.

This government was founded and based on Christian principles but firmly defends your right to believe as you will or not believe at all with no coercion or retribution forthcoming.

«Christianity» spread at the tip of a sword is no true conversion, nor can real faith result from coercion.

The subject, Benedict has said at Regensburg and elsewhere, is the relationship between faith and reason, between violence and persuasion, between coercion and religious freedom.

There is now strong evidence that government at every level will attempt such coercion.

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

The coercions of political correctness sway him not at all, and the sentimentality that urges us to respect the will and creativity of individuals, especially children, is altogether ousted.

If we must use coercion, then let us know that we are doing so; let us admit honestly that insofar as this is done we are not obeying the perfect divine will; let us recognize that at best the use of such force is a pis - aller, not the entirely right thing.

Mark, those «negotiations» under duress are coercion and not real negotiations at all.

I'm an atheist and I am not at all terrified - unlike unthinking Christians who base their entire lives and behaviors on terror and coercion froma book writted thousands of years ago my medieval men.

At the same time, the Free Exercise Clause safeguards the religious liberty of individuals, imposing a ban on coercion or discrimination by government.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

But if process theists really do believe that some coercion would not only be preferable but required at the divine level if it were possible, then it appears that they must also acknowledge that the God of process theism would coerce if this were an option.

Process theists do not deny that coercion in this weaker sense occurs, at least on the human level.

(4) The State must use coercive power to enforce its authority; the Christian can accept some forms of coercion as right and necessary, but at others his conscience is bound to rebel.

(3) All efforts at justice are equally far from the Kingdom of God because they involve coercive efforts and coercion is foreign to the brotherhood of love.

But the evil is in the tyranny, not in the coercion, In some human relations at least coercion is not only necessary, which Niebuhr of course admits, but also it is an essential element in the growth of the real good of mutuality among free and responsible persons.14

At the same time, it takes on board the important task of directly challenging some of the thinking which lies behind the violence and coercion associated with Islamist groups and Islamic states.

«The success of markets at solving the problem of social fit without recourse to brute coercion is a crucial part of their legitimacy.»

Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.

At the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.&raquAt the ontological level, the level of efficient causality, divine persuasion is not operative; «forbearance would mean non-existence...» But once humanity is created and God resolves to relate himself to humankind in terms of persuasion and not coercion, God «would have to be uncertain about a number of details of the future... and in some respects unable to accomplish his will at all.&raquat all.»

Thus, the irresponsible demand for independence characteristic of the democracy of desire tends at length to autocracy and police coercion, which actually diminish the people's freedom.

It is certainly possible that God, at the level of creativity - characterization, may have other powers in addition to persuasion and coercion.

We probably have more experience with the characteristics of destructive conflict: secrecy, threats, coercion and bluffs, misperception and miscommunication, unbridled competition in which one party tries to destroy, injure, or control the other (s) and in which one party gains only at the other's expense.

At the human, historical level, the constituting elements include physical necessities, customs, habits, unquestioned opinions and coercion.

At the inaugural Women's Convention in Detroit in October, put on by the Women's March organizers, Herndon - De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, asked «if there was room in their campaign for women who might regret their abortions, say if it was done out of coercion, or if that counted as reinforcing stigma.»

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

While he qualifies and conditions this in various ways, the basic point is still the same: that the good aimed at (defending democracy from terrorism) justifies the doing of evil (using means that involve violence, force, and coercion).

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

These are strongly correlated with younger age at onset of fatherhood, exposure to domestic and other violence as a child (including sexual coercion), and no father alive (Quinlivan & Condon, 2005).

Coercion is often used when a medical professional sites «hospital policy» or accuses the mother of putting her baby at risk when asking about her choices or information on refusing a procedure.

At other times, maybe we also need these resources to help extricate ourselves from situations that may involve our use, inadvertent or planned, of more or less hostility, rejection and coercion.

In practice, the main source of said coercion since at least 1930s comes from the government; therefore in practice this means that achieving this philosophical goal requires limiting the power of the government.

Third: If the theft occurs, even by one person carrying an arm, and it takes place at night or by the use of coercion or by threatening to use the arm.

For a Europe already concerned by the appearance of a democratic deficit and of coercion by larger nations, it would pay to be wary of formalising the inequality of nations within the EU and of disenfranchising those at the edges.

The strike's demands include a national healthcare system, a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave for at least six months, free childcare and full - access, coercion - free reproductive freedom.

The vibrancy of businesses or economic and civic life in the region is on its historic lull, as evident in the frequent sit - at - home orders issued by IPOB leader, which compliance is enforced by members of BSS through intimidation, coercion and brute force.

In more recent centuries it was held that there were other reasons as well, mainly that it placed limits on the use of coercion and police abuse, and forced courts to look at evidence more than possibly unreliable confessions.

On the other hand, one may argue that faced with a ban, women from (conservative salafi) families may not go out at all (again, either because they believe they should not, or because they are under pressure or coercion), which would mean that without a ban, those women are a bit freeer than with a ban.

«With less than three coercive controls on average per police authority, more needs to be done so that people can involve the police at an early stage before coercion turns into physical abuse.»

But the coercion of mandatory labeling ought to be reserved for information that is relevant to health, not GMO content, because government - sponsored assessments have repeatedly concluded that approved GMOs are at least as safe and nutritious as their conventionally bred counterparts.

«Codes of ethics, as they are formulated and institutionalized at the moment, need to be understood as generic documents based on certain types of logic, a logic of coercion.

She verbally shreds those who urge her, with increasing reproach, to remove the billboards, from using church sex - abuse scandals to silence a nagging priest to outsmarting cops» attempts at coercion.

When Willoughby learns of the billboards, he blows a gasket, and it seems clear where the movie is headed: to a battle between the police and Mildred, the aggrieved citizen who has taken the law — or, at least, the power of public shame and coercion — into her own hands.

The movie is at times raucous, but its spirits couldn't be higher, and the tale teaches a good - natured lesson about why cooperation is better than coercion.