Sentences with phrase «coercive force»

RM: So Hobbes thought that even under the most coercive force of law left people free.

For him, authority can have only the negative meaning of raw coercive force.

When used justly» and in the American system this means at its basis to protect the essential goods of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at which American democracy aims» coercive force is not an evil at all but an instrument of good.

This influence is so great that we must see in Whitehead's mathematical publications not only pre-figurations of later thoughts, but also part of the coercive force that caused him to develop his metaphysics the way he did.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

We must see in Whitehead's mathematical publications not only pre-figurations of later thoughts, but also part of the coercive force that caused him to develop his metaphysics the way he did.

If the crux of the difference does not lie in coercive force, or compromise, or resistance to evil, or the actuality of human sin, where does it lie?

So, Jesus» depiction in the Gospel story is that of «a God Whose omnipotence consisted not in coercive force but in enduring love.»

God works in the world by providing «initial aims» for each occasion or event or occurrence or «entity» (which was Whitehead's word); His «power» is in His persuasion, in His «lure» (which is also Whitehead's word), not in coercive force.

But even with our nation, Crowe argues, there exists neither an adequate common value system, a compelling monopoly of coercive force, nor the required administrative devices sufficient to prevent the differential exploitation of the commons.

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....

The principle I call «equal regard»... must sometimes be backed up by coercive force.

But can justice be maintained — or an approximation of justice — without coercive force?

Is it ever right for one State, to use coercive force upon another?

Ultimately, process theists must determine whether coercive force (in the sense in which they grant it is possible) would be used if it were available to God.

They explicitly criticize much of the use of coercive force in our world.

But God also works persuasively; and His supreme resource is not coercive force, but the compelling power of His revelation in the Suffering Servant of all.

It is possible that the coercive force of mathematical necessity has an even stronger basis than the demand for universal agreement, important as that may be.

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.

Would you use coercive force to protect your own family, and if so, to what extent?

A different order of questions is raised when we move from boycotts and other voluntary actions to employing the coercive force of law.

Since it functions to free them from the necessity of sheer repetition of the past and to offer them alternative ways of constituting themselves, it is to be sharply contrasted with the coercive forces of the world.

Not exact matches

She says that Cohen forced her to sign the January statement through «intimidation and coercive tactics,» and that he has continued to try to intimidate her into silence.

... Also in January 2018, and concerned the truth would be disclosed, Mr. Cohen, through intimidation and coercive tactics, forced Ms. Clifford into signing a false statement wherein she stated that reports of her relationship with Mr. Trump were false.»

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

He «decides» to be carried along; for he finds in the rising current a compelling force that is not coercive.

The forces disestablishing marriage in Western societies are so overwhelming and intractable that all efforts to stop or slow the decline will appear moralistic and coercive to the general population.

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

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

The coercive power of the state has forced the secularization of charitable work, leading to such tragedies as the closing of religious charities that refuse to secularize their ministries.

A teacher can and must be firm in direction of the students, but this need not mean teaching by coercive means or trying to force students into unquestioning or unqualified acceptance of thoughts or facts that are remote from their actual existence.

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

It can often be coercive — people can feel forced to conform to a vision.

Is it not a sign of weak faith or bad faith to force coercive elements in public life to propagate what voluntary ones do not?

Conservatives, argues David Sehat, profess religious freedom, but only to secretly assert the coercive power of law to force people to live under a particular religious establishment.

Had I spent their toddler years forcing foods on them and engaging in coercive or punitive mealtime parenting, the damage to our relationship, not to mention their health, could have been disastrous.

This entitles the UN Security Council to use coercive measures of economic and military force «to maintain or restore international peace and security».

The result has been more laws — including Claire's Law which means people can check if their partner has a history of violence, and the criminalisation of forced marriage and coercive control.

Coercion - an assertion of compulsory interaction between two parties (forced by the coercive party) which serves to override the rejecting party's evaluation that the interaction is personally undesirable where the the coercing party evaluates that the interaction would be personally desirable; an involuntary, unilaterally beneficial interaction of trade; Coercion is enforced through either Aggression or Fraud; Coercion is the abstract principle behind all acts commonly identified as Crimes.

Just eight out of 43 forces in England and Wales have provided training on coercive control, accounting in part for the low number of prosecutions since the offence was introduced in 2016.

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

While it's great the government took steps to criminalise coercive control in support of survivors of domestic abuse, the cuts mean forces are not equipped to enforce the law.

The largest teachers union in California is preparing for life without forced union membership, as a lawsuit challenging coercive dues makes its way through the legal system.

Here, one has in mind the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy Nigerian Air Force, the police, other paramilitary forces and, in short, all the other coercive institutions existing under the Nigerian law.

In the past, theories of a link between low intelligence and criminal behavior, for example, sparked a movement of «coercive eugenics,» which resulted in forced sterilizations in the name of crime control.

Centring on the late DEEP THROAT actress Linda Lovelace, who was forced into the porn industry by her coercive and abusive husband Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), and quickly became the biggest adult star in the business before later taking control of her life and campaigning for women's rights.

The coercive cultural policy of his time forced much of Chinese art into a «semi-underground» state, but in a way, the burning desire for expression in severely limited conditions served as catalyst for the artist, bringing out numerous diverse and vibrant creations.

When denominated by such indicators, all responsible projections indicate that we expect to be made worse off by coercive policies to force immediate, aggressive abatement of carbon dioxide emissions.

Due to the deep climate catastrophe uncertainty, decarb of energy should not be forced through coercive taxation or rigged trading schemes because the technology is not mature enough to effectively accomplish it.

He uses the coercive power of the state to force other people to give him, gratis, the fruits of their labor.