Sentences with phrase «not by coercion»

He ruled by the persuasion of great ideas, not by coercion and force.

Like effective and respectful therapy, persuasion brings about new wants and aims, but it does so, not by coercion or by frustrating desires, but by opening new possibilities, which is the result of divine «creativity.»

Not exact matches

«However, with your leadership, it is possible to help Taiwan remain a democracy, free to establish a relationship with China that is not driven by military coercion.»

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

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).

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

God does not veto our decisions by making us completely impotent (coercion.)

One somehow suspects that a 2013 Chinese law that requires children to visit their elderly parents regularly — a coercive attempt to repair some of the social damage caused by even worse coercion — is not going to do the trick.

Entrapment requires coercion by authorities to make a person to do something illegal, which he would have not otherwise been inclined to do.

And in the same paragraph: «It is really very difficult for people — including large associations of people and huge corporations — to do anything very bad, for very long, when they are not buttressed by the threat of physical coercion.»

The prominent Georgia pastor being sued for sexual coercion by four men will face his accusers in court next summer if the cases can not be settled through mediation before then.

I've also witnessed the coercion Wollstonecraft describes: teenaged girls being dragged into the Planned Parenthood on Bleecker Street by fathers, mothers, or boyfriends; an eighteen - year - old who left home because her parents threatened to kick her out if she didn't abort.

On the other hand, man too is active, but his activity is also in love; he responds freely to the love which is given him and in that response he knows that he is truly «being himself», for he was intended by his creation to be a responding lover and in no sense a marionette pulled by strings manipulated by God — certainly not the victim of the divine coercion.

But most Christians do not engage in such forcible coercion, usually carried out by water boarding, humiliation, or physical threats.

Each individual has a duty to develop his own personality, to be placed in circumstances as favorable as possible to his personal development and not to be deformed by external coercion but inwardly super-organized by persuasion, in conformity with his personal endowments and aspirations.

«It would not do to excuse a mother for the grossly evil habits of her child by appealing to her use of persuasion only, when sometimes there have been Situations in which some coercion was morally required» (PS 2/1, 45).

However, the united action of the landlords, their tactics of intimidation and coercion, did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Pulayas who continued to show their defiance by attending Christian instruction.

The new actual entity, during its later stages of concrescence, may move beyond a purely physical relation to its past by enhancing or diminishing those characteristics, (such as anger), but it can not avoid an initial physical coercion.

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds, that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.

Power, as suggested by Deutsch and Whitehead, is essentially a question of responsiveness in a context of mutuality and not control in a unidirectional process of extraction or coercion.

Force, a term much used in physics, is not sheer coercion but the mysterious attraction exercised by one entity, understood as an energy event, upon another.

Disputes are perhaps frequent in any organization that does not operate by means of coercion, provide pay for services or have a clear system of rewards and punishments in this life for actions taken.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

We are a group of mothers who lost children to adoption, not by «informed choice» but through fraud, coercion, and force.

The group of former staffers, which includes Leah Hebert, Tori Burhans Kelly and Rita Pasarell, all of whom were sexually harassed by former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, said the package does not adequately protect against coercion.

Alternatively, you could also go with the Marxist theory that a state is an institution to enforce the subjugation of all classes to a ruling class and to preserve certain relations of production, by making use of forcible coercion (now you can see why Soviet Russia didn't appeal to an equality ethos).

«Accidents happen, coercion happens, and there is a public - health imperative not to hold women hostage by hampering them from timely access to postcoital contraception.»

Sergiovanni argued that educational leaders need followers because followers are not led by coercion, but rather by commitment to beliefs, values and ideals.

Both those who want a union and those who do not are protected by law from coercion, intimidation and retaliation — in any way.

Since Common Core's being pushed by a combination of bribes and coercion one of the few answers to critics who don't see those tactics as quite the proper way to promote education policy is to imply they're mentally ill.

Not that it matters, by definition forcing someone to sign something to have their property returned to them is coercion and would never hold up in a court of law.

If such challenges can not be made and sustained without the abuse and coercion faced by Lennart Bengtsson, for example, then what is taking place is a political rather than a scientific process.

For example, one of several conditions for aggravated sexual assault in New Jersey is «the actor uses physical force or coercion and severe personal injury is sustained by the victim,» while the corresponding condition for sexual assault is «The actor uses physical force or coercion, but the victim does not sustain severe personal injury.»

We can not solve these problems using military force or litigation, by violence or coercion, or by accusations or denunciations, but not require the use of mediation, collaborative negotiation, dialogue and conflict resolution systems design in order to successfully collaborate in overcoming them.»

There is a case in South Australia where a police officer committed the tort of false imprisonment by psychological coercion, by asking the plaintiff to come with him, and the plaintiff assumed he could not refuse: Symes v Mahon [1922] SAStRp 57.

-- The prenup is not in writing: For a prenuptial agreement to be valid, it must be a written document, witnessed by outside parties — At least one party provided false information: The inclusion of untruthful information or even incomplete information will render a prenuptial agreement invalid — Pressure, duress or coercion: If one party forces the other to sign a prenuptial agreement, regardless of whom the document most benefits, it will be invalid — The prenup was not read: If one or the other spouse does not read the prenuptial agreement, it is possible the document could be challenged — Improper execution: To be valid, the agreement must be read and signed by both parties before the marriage occurs — Gross unfairness: While a prenuptial agreement gives the couple a great deal of flexibility in how they establish financial rights, the court may decide not to enforce the prenup if it is grossly unfair to one of the parties

According to Art 8 Dir 2005 / 29 / EC, «A commercial practice shall be regarded as aggressive if, in its factual context, taking account of all its features and circumstances, by harassment, coercion, including the use of physical force, or undue influence, it significantly impairs or is likely to significantly impair the average consumer's freedom of choice or conduct with regard to the product and thereby causes him or is likely to cause him to take a transactional decision that he would not have taken otherwise».

The judge will «find» that the divorce is irretrievably broken and that the Separation Agreement was entered into by both parties and not a product of duress or coercion The judge will «find» that the Separation Agreement is fair and reasonable in light of the circumstances.

Although it is indisputable that sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape constitute a particularly serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society, I do not think that this type of act is covered by the concept of «public security» within the meaning of Article 28 (3) of Directive 2004/38.

Article 28 (3) of Directive 2004 / 38 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64 / 221 / EEC, 68 / 360 / EEC, 72 / 194 / EEC, 73 / 148 / EEC, 75 / 34 / EEC, 75 / 35 / EEC, 90 / 364 / EEC, 90 / 365 / EEC and 93 / 96 / EEC, is to be interpreted as meaning that sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape are not covered by the concept of «imperative grounds of public security» where those acts do not directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.

Prostitution is a good example: forbidding prostitution that does not involve violence, coercion, deceit or any other infringement of sexual self - determination, physical integrity or the protection of minors and other defenseless persons is only motivated by the moral judgement of a society.

In the result, the judge declared the impugned provisions to be unconstitutional and of no force and effect to the extent they prohibited physician - assisted suicide in the case of a «fully - informed, non-ambivalent competent adult patient who: (a) is free from coercion and undue influence, is not clinically depressed, and who personally (not through a substitute decision - maker) requests physician - assisted death; and (b) is materially physically disabled or is soon to become so, has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner as having a serious illness, disease or disability... is in a state of advanced weakening capacities with no chance of improvement, has an illness as determined by reference treatment options acceptable to the person, and has an illness causing enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to that person and can not be alleviated by any medical treatment acceptable to that person».

Most aviation companies are committed to assuring that: All recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, and other employment related programs are provided fairly to all persons on an equal opportunity basis without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law; Employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action; All personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, training, and participation in social and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law, and; Employees and applicants will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have exercised any right protected by law.

Regarding previous IPV experience, all of the mothers had experienced psychological aggression (n = 38; 100 %) and the majority had experienced physical assault (n = 29; 76.3 %), injuries (n = 30; 78.9 %), and sexual coercion (n = 27; 71.1 %) by their former partners.

The importance of this examination is not driven by an assumption that open relationships are somehow unfair or unfair for women, are arrived at through coercion or fear, or are inherently pathological.