Sentences with phrase «of coercion of»

Many of those couples say the charges of coercion of birth mothers are overblown and that thousands of abandoned children will be condemned to a life of poverty if greater restrictions on adoptions are imposed.

Freedom exists in a situation in which there is only persuasion being used by the agents involved with no application of the coercion of rewards and penalties produced by voluntary manipulation of the environment.

Not exact matches

(As I'm sure Broadsheet readers know, the singer has been the focus of multiple allegations of sexual abuse, sexual coercion, and physical abuse.)

Look up «hustle» in the dictionary and you'll see the word commonly means to sell something by force and / or coercion, and / or to maintain a flutter of activity, as in «the hustle and bustle of the daily grind.»

The report contained numerous other allegations of harassment and coercion by other women.

She was released from jail after South Korea's appeals court suspended her prison term for coercion and obstruction of business.

The investigation by the United States under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act has identified theft from and coercion of U.S. companies to disclose their intellectual property as well as purchases by Chinese state funds of U.S. companies for their technology knowledge.

But the main difference is Toronto's greater powers of coercion.

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.

Many American industry leaders support Mr. Lighthizer's efforts to expand access to Chinese sectors that are restricted to American companies and protect American intellectual property from theft and coercion — longstanding complaints of American business leaders about China's tactics.

To truly get your people to buy into your vision (instead of doing it with fear and coercion), you need to capture their attention and play on the heartstrings of what motivates them.

Worse is when they believe that on account of their success, they are superior and thus have a moral duty to impose their views on others, including by government coercion.

He added that the volume of the tariffs was in line with the White House's calculation that the Chinese have cheated the United States out of $ 50 billion worth of intellectual property through coercion and cyberattacks.

Alibaba called the charges of coercion «completely false» and said pursuing exclusivity is a common industry practice.

It is not clear whether the evidence of coercion brands have managed to collect would hold up in court.

Anyone who lays out threats, coercion, persecution, etc. is doing the work of Satan.

Second, the image of God entails that men must be allowed freedom in their own minds («soul liberty») from coercion from other men.

If there is any slight sniff of coercion, control, manipulation, expectation, judgement or condemnation in a community, then something is terribly wrong.

The new missal is about just that: control, coercion, manipulation Given the recent track record of the our spiritual authorities we should not believe in their good intentions.

He quoted the second Sura, verse 256 (strangely fallible, for a pope, he meant verse 257) which says: «There must be no coercion in matters of faith».

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.

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

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).

Pope Paul VI and the «out of touch» Church predicted in 1969 that widespread use of contraception would lead to four things: 1) General lowering of moral standards, 2) A rise in infidelity, and illegitimacy 3) The reduction of women to objects used to satisfy men and 4) Government coercion in reproductive matters.

i can understand how our traditional religions work, having been created in times of ignorance of the natural world and perpetuated by a combination of coercion, indoctrination and groupthink.

It has been a place of rotten teaching, spiritual coercion and dishonesty, and of judgement, and as such a place of real damage and pain to me and many of my friends.

«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.»

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

If they are all adults... by that I mean 21 or older, and are consensual... for all parties free of coercion and trhreats... If the «marriage and home and children» are happy and well cared for... why should we care...???

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.

But regarding early abortions, the objective should be persuasion — creating some future majority — rather than legislative coercion in the absence of a current majority.

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

The superman deity uses Basinger's coercionb, and he must realize that the disembodied God of classical theism can, if he is actually able, only coerce in the strong sense (coercion.).

You are assuming that if God revealed itself, it would automatically force all of humanity to adopt belief under no force or coercion.

Seriously, though, what kind of God would use coercion to get folks to believe in him / her / it?

His two types of coercion lead me to distinguish between two subtypes of DP2 — DP2a and DP2b — with the latter not collapsing into DP1.

Not only is Basinger unable to make divine coercionb intelligible, he also appears to be wrong in implying that the traditional God does not exercise coercion in the strong sense of unilateral determination.

As Chesterton observed, «Creatures so close to each other as husband and wife, or a mother and children, have powers of making each other happy or miserable with which no public coercion can deal.»

Since political principles identify the proper relations between humans, and since these relations are not constitutive of happiness, freedom has meant the absence of authority or coercion, i.e., the liberty to pursue happiness without human interference.

Whenever Christians engage in coercion in the name of their faith and dogma, their actions somehow seem more reprehensible than those of other people doing the same thing.

Indeed, Gottlieb enthusiastically underscores how Mendelssohn's support for religious pluralism «is appropriate to life in a cosmopolitan, diverse society,» applauding his theologically based opposition to any kind of religious coercion and his emphasis on how religious beliefs promote «individual flourishing.»

I'm so glad you made it clear that our prayers are a conversation with God, not coercion of the almighty God, our creator.

But as we move through the scriptures and analyze the accounts of how God deals with human beings, coercion is rare.

Nope, nothing they said fits this legal definition of coercion...

It's that a certain kind of coercion is built into their view from the start.

The dynamic of Grand Theft Auto isn't forced violence, or even coercion.

The resort to coercion reflects the failure of persuasion.

We'll see more parties enlisting courts in the unfolding coercion, by deploying the perfectly tailored concept of dignitary harm: the pain of being told by others that your choices are immoral.

When we ask what kind of power is revealed in Jesus, coercion does not come to mind.