Sentences with phrase «not coercive»

Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is not a coercive therapy, which can be dangerous.

c) An important principle behind developing criteria for measuring professional excellence is the foundational belief that professional family mediators are client - centered, not coercive in their work, and respectful of the participants» self - determination.

that «Advertising is not coercive.»

In defense of its actions, Cambridge Analytica recently tweeted that «Advertising is not coercive.»

(C) A judge may, as a parent or guardian, assist minor children in their fund - raising activities if the procedures employed are not coercive and the sums solicited are minor.

In the unpublished State v. Drum, the Court of Appeals characterizes Brooks as holding «as a matter of law» that «the criminal test - penalty in the implied - consent law is not coercive.»

Service is voluntary, not coercive.

During a news conference in Indonesia, where he was attending an economic conference, Mr. Clinton said prayer in schools should be allowed if it is not coercive.

The researchers had little trouble recruiting volunteers, who received the same fee as jurors ($ 20 a day), which the researchers deemed fair but not coercive.

I must show you that the fatal consequence is not coercive, as is commonly imagined; and that, even though our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue when the brain itself is dead.

As I said, then, the fatal consequence is not coercive, the conclusion which materialism draws being due solely to its onesided way of taking the word «function.»

Being a society, the effect of past occasions in his life upon the presently becoming one is, as is generally tnie in societies, a persuasive and not a coercive effect.

In a universe where accidents are possible and entities have some degree of freedom and self - determination, God is not coercive but is persuasive.

The doctrine that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency, not a coercive one, should be looked upon, says Whitehead, as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of religion (Whitehead 1933, 196).

It has not seen the truth in the Spanish folk proverb, that «to make love is to declare one's sorrows»; nor has it noticed that the deepest expressions of love are not only painful to the one who loves but can also make inexorable demands on the one who is loved — demands which are not arbitrary and certainly not coercive in their manner of expression, but which are inexorable none the less, since they expect of the beloved the full and complete realization of all his possibilities as a lover.

For now I'm accepting my own personal challenge to teach in a way that is not coercive or oppressive, but encourages people to happily recognize their own spiritual condition and to willingly move deeper into a life of love.

These past conditions may sometimes be felt as coercive, but they are not coercive as such.

Moreover, this persuasion is not coercive, so there is no necessity that every creature must embody the maximum of its potentialities.

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.

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

God in his working, and in his ways of working, is persuasive not coercive power; he is that creative, dynamic, energizing love which was seen by men in the person of Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ's own working and ways of working.

The easiest access point for most is to say that because God IS love, then God's very nature is loving, and so God's use of power is not coercive - it is persuasive (almost seductive).

The one place where the exception is clearly visible is in the anonymous Letter to Diognetus from the mid-second century CE, where [45] God's use of persuasive and not coercive power is affirmed in regard to how God leads wayward humanity to salvation: The invisible God, the Ruler and Creator of all, sent «the Designer and Maker of the universe himself, by whom he created... like a king sending his son who is himself a king.

Not exact matches

These practices should not be confused with coercive tied selling, as defined by the Bank Act.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

Coercive power can kill and destroy, but it can not bring life and wisdom and love into being.

kids that don't participate are ostracized it's deceptively coercive

Maybe they just aren't being coercive enough, or not doing a very effective job of brainwashing — er, I mean indoctrinating their children.

Jonathan, You are correct that discerning whether behavior, either our own or another's, is coercive or manipulative is not easy.

He explains: «It is very easy to slip into disdain for people who don't see the evidence for biological evolution or who want to impose their views on others in a coercive way, such as in Muslim majority countries.»

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.

Just violence envisions human relationships of a particular kind, and these can not be realized without coercive institutions.

Gregory thought that this was an exemplary statement of the way to protest the abuse of coercive authority — not by overt, destructive, risk - laden rebellion, but by a symbolic demonstrative act revealing the vulnerable moral credibility of abused power.

Christian agencies should be deliberate and overt (though not offensive or coercive) in addressing spiritual needs as well as physical ones.

Indeed, a theology that does not make clear how the life of faith pertains to the structures of civilization — including even those coercive ones of political power — is truncated.

Refutation and coercive argument is not what interests him.

I don't think there is any reason to want to restore the churches to political power, if by that one means coercive power.

Obviously, the church was not innocent of the bloodshed, entangled as it was with coercive power.

Yet, as the cross of Jesus can suggest, the presence of God is, and always has been, invitational rather than coercive, a pull from ahead to which creatures may or may not respond, rather than a push from behind by which they are inevitably compelled.

But clearly this will not do because it merely presupposes a resolution of the problem at stake; the problem is that of determining when power becomes coercive.

This is why, Francis insists, we must oppose, not just assaults on the environment, but grave attacks on human rights — such as abortion and coercive population control — and condemn destructive gender ideologies, since «it is not healthy to cancel out sexual difference.»

Virtually every law is coercive, and care must be taken not to violate the religious liberties of individual citizens.

On the other hand, the emphasis on coercive control which Hare and Madden exemplify may be taken as reflecting the realization that, after all, not all desires are of the same intensity, etc..

We would not know whether to «place» strong sexual urges outside or inside the self until we first determine whether they are coercive to the individual or not.

But if even the most modest accounts of «systemic violence» are correct, the question is not one of coercing or not coercing but of how we can promote just policies in the midst of a pervasively coercive society.

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.

And second, what Childs has found to be coercive — that is, inescapably required — has not been found so by many other theologically serious interpreters before him.

God's action is first, since He always loves men and surrounds them with His loving action — but it is genuinely loving action and hence not pressure of a coercive type.

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

If by power we intend to signify, as most often is intended, the use of coercive measures whether these be overt or subtle and hidden, then it would seem that to ascribe such a quality to God as His chief characteristic — as in fact, if not in word, is suggested when people talk as did my questioner — is a denial of the point of Christ's disclosure of God.