Sentences with phrase «forms of coercion»

UNFPA promotes a human rights agenda and opposes all forms of coercion.

These scenarios can involve allegations of extortion and forms of coercion used when this content is held hostage.

But if need be, he said, he would endorse «various forms of coercion» like eliminating «tax benefits for having additional children.»

His observations, which grew out of his opposition to the Vietnam War and, later, what he saw as the United States» resorting to violence and other forms of coercion and domination abroad, thrust him into the spotlight and have made him one of the top pundits and gadflies of the day.

He nevertheless emphasised the various forms of coercion already existing in society apart from government.

The trust that children develop as a result of having their emotional needs met sets a foundation of parent - child interaction that doesn't have to rely on threats, shame, punishment, rewards, or other forms of coercion for behavior control.

But sins, I will admit, can become an excuse for terrible forms of coercion, and strictures against sin often tend to blot out the goods that the strictures hope to serve.

The United Nations defines modern slavery, or human trafficking, thus: «the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

Manipulation and subtle forms of coercion are a type of violence in their own right.

(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.

The Conference Message declares:»... many expressions of mission lead to unethical forms of coercion and proselytism which neither recognize the integrity of the local churches nor are sensitive to local cultures... We therefore commit ourselves to promote common witness and to renounce proselytism and all forms of mission which destroy the unity of the body of Christ.»

Thus, since they believe that God is ultimate perfection, it might seem that they would uniformly deny that the process God would use any form of coercion, even if such coercion were possible.

I am interested in discussing the normative status of this weaker form of coercion within process thought.

Any form of coercion — physical, psychological, legal, economic — corrupts Christian witness and is to be unqualifiedly rejected.

There is also a second form of coercion which primarily affects final causation.

Thus, its surrendering any control over that other will be interpreted, by those who understand genuine power to be a form of coercion, as the utter absence or even the «death» of God.

The government of a liberal democracy is like every other government in that it coerces its citizens in all kinds of ways for the common good — the dominant form of this coercion being taxation.

They are in no way meant to endorse any form of coercion.

Thus intercessory prayer becomes, not a substitute for action in ourselves or a form of coercion upon God, but a channel to the widest divine - human co-operation.

I think it is reasonable to conclude that cultural evolutionary processes today are gradually replacing one form of coercion with another.

Overcoming it has nothing to do with rape or any form of coercion.

Any form of coercion, abuse, threats or controlling behavior should be like a huge red warning light flashing.

Allegations of fraud may also involve questions of duress, which normally includes a threat or some form of coercion.

Yes, supervised visitation, in its own subtle psycho - tyrannical manner, is more invalidating to the child victim than any other form of coercion.

Not exact matches

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

And while no one forces adults to go to church, the poster who you responded to was discussing the one form of religious coercion that does exist, ie forcing kids to go to church.

The forms of legal coercion such as laws against bigamy, age limits for consent to marriage, the husband's moral economic obligations to support the wife, and so on are the province of the community as a whole.

Accordingly, its necessary conditions include equal freedom for all participants to advance and contest any claim and the arguments for it; the absence of internal coercion in the form of strategic activity or, stated positively, uncompromised commitment on the part of all participants to seek the truth; and the absence of external coercion that might influence the acceptance or contestation of claims (cf. Habermas, Theory 25; Habermas, Justification 31).

So - called «realistic politics» seems to take as an article of faith that control though coercion (in the sense of overriding people's desires, wants, and aims) is a more successful, strong, efficient, and competent form of power or control.

There are many cases in which persuasion is a far more effective and abiding form of control than is coercion.

They have been subjected to an unparalleled history of extreme coercion and violence which did not end with emancipation but has taken ever new forms to the present day.

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

Along with the insights of Charles Hartshorne, Whitehead's concept of persuasion (in contrast to coercion) has formed the basis for development of both divine and social images of power.

What connects these various forms of abuse is the element of coercion or nonconsent; the violation of bodily integrity and well being; and the betrayal of covenantal relationships.

The nine benchmarks also accept the contemporary understanding of time, the role of unpredictability (novelty), persuasion as a higher form of power than coercion, and the priority of evolution and change (instability) over equilibrium or stasis.

Once you put «Christianity» of any form, especially evangelical (overbearing form of Christianity) you will take a step toward coercion.

More than 70 percent of the world now lives with some form of religious coercion.

Since no society can exist without some measure of coercion as well as some measure of persuasion, Christian teaching on the proper relation of these two forms of power has been complex and diverse.

Using shame, humiliation, guilt, manipulation, coercion, or physical forms of discipline can interfere with the connection between parent and child.

Therefore, he proposed that, to promote liberty, the state must ameliorate other forms of social coercion.

Trump's choice, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has said the Clean Power Plan is a form of federal «coercion and commandeering»

Males rarely force females to mate, but after years spent observing the animals in the wild, Huchard noticed that a subtler form of sexual coercion appeared to be going on.

But that doesn't change the fact that when telling her story, she is describing the culture that has allowed sexual abuse, harassment, coercion, and so many other forms of misconduct to fester.

Democracies require a popularly elected government that is accountable to the electorate and free from external coercion, and all forms of contestation and participation must be equally accessible to all.

These qualities are broadly accepted: that they are whimsical, capricious, wanton; that they can move at high speed, alter their size and form, and grant many of the wishes of mortal men and women should they so choose, or if by coercion they are obliged to do so; and that their sense of time differs radically from that of human beings.

The following forms of sexual misconduct are prohibited: Sexual Harassment; Sexual Assault; Sexual Coercion; Sexual Exploitation; Dating Violence; Domestic Violence; Intimidation; Stalking.

Justice Abella felt that the interests of the Hutterites trumped the province's policy concerns and that the community's religious beliefs made the very taking of a photograph a form of indirect coercion.

This, said the court, does not necessarily carry a connotation of coercion and might represent no more than «a strong form of request».

Force — willingness to use coercion or threats and the fear engendered in others is a form of power.

Few studies have examined how attachment insecurity (i.e., attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance) is associated with the more subtle and less severe forms of sexual coercion, such as verbal threats and partner manipulation.