Sentences with phrase «over coercion»

Kerri Scharlin «Marina Adams titled her first solo show at Salon 94 «Soft Power,» a term she borrowed from political scientist Joseph Nye, which refers to a strategy of seduction over coercion.

Not exact matches

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.

In case you missed it last week, Mark Signorelli over at Front Porch Republic has posted further thoughts on the recent Joe Carter - Jerry Salyer debate, though this time the focus is on authority and coercion in legitimate government.

«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.»

He emphasizes persuasion over against coercion.

I hate coercion, they seem to be saying; I will no longer have that whip cracked over my head; I will cut loose, do as I please, and be independent.

At first the traumas of the depression afforded a rallying cry for church liberals, but divisions soon developed over the question of class struggle and the use of coercion — divisions that were to deepen as the world situation darkened and war loomed on the horizon.

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.

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.

Whitehead also described the advance of civilization as the victory of persuasion and gentleness over brute force and coercion.

When persuasion failed, coercion did not take over.

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.

-- Over Controlling: Coercion, bribes, games, and threats in the name of good nutrition.

Pam Leo gently, irresistibly, invites us to cross over from the habitual and unconscious coercion of our children, to conscious connection with them.

Veterans of the last debate think most of these would be won over by a more subtle argument against right - to - die: the fear of coercion.

Pryce is relying on a defence of marital coercion against allegations she took Huhne's speeding points over a March 2003 incident when his car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 motorway between Stansted Airport and London.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders amping up their rhetoric in a fight over subpoenas from the Cuomo - convened anti-corruption panel, saying the investigation into their finances amounts to simple coercion.

Boys often treat girls as sexual objects, which contributes to the higher rates of digital sexual coercion, as boys may feel entitled to have sexual power over girls, said study co-author Richard Tolman, U-M professor of social work.

When a female seems to «choose» a large male over a small male, how do we know if she really prefers the large male or she is making the «choice» under coercion or threat, or if the large male has eliminated others from the competition?

The control you gain over your dog's behavior is based on cooperation rather than coercion, and your goals are achieved through a system of reward rather than punishment.

Somehow the framers of the US constitution managed to gift the federal government with the power of coercion over individual states.

I'm concerned that the «14 year maximum» will be used as a means of coercion to get suspects to give over information and to confess to crimes they may have not committed.

«I, Mr. X, of X Street in X City, am over 18 years of age, of sound mind and body, and not writing this Last Will and Testament under duress or coercion.»

For example, the wire's padded connection at the mouse end scrapes against its hard plastic edges without much coercion, which could wear it down over time.

Relationships Scotland believes that behaviour that seeks to secure power and control, or instil fear for one person over another through violence, coercion, control and inequality is unacceptable.

Using coercion theory as an organizing framework, the book distills over 30 years of thinking and research at OSLC.