Sentences with phrase «threat of force»

The guest imam also discussed how Muslims ought to deal with threats of force, telling worshippers that they should seek to avoid such threats before taking a series of increasingly aggressive steps to counter the threatening person.

They can go on to your property to reclaim it as long as they don't «breach the peace,» meaning use threats of force.

Forcing your religion on others, whether through threats of force or economic threats, is wrong.

General chest - thumping in response to threats of war (which is what Saddam was doing) are not the same as clearly stated demands backed by a credible threat of force.

Ministers are expected to announce their targets for land restoration, to agree on measures to address the related emerging threats of forced migration, sand and dust storms, and to agree on actions to strengthen the resilience of communities to droughts.

The U.K. government's proposed «snooper's charter» is already scaring tech firms around the world with its threat of forcing them to help break encryption in their communications services, but here's a wrinkle that's received little attention until now: It would also force them to give the country's spies a heads - up about upcoming product launches and upgrades.

The ruling Communist Party considers the self - ruled, democratic island a wayward province and refuses to renounce the threat of force to bring it into the fold.

For instance, in the communiqué on global strategic stability, both Putin and Xi denounced the U.S., albeit without naming it explicitly, for its intent on «deploying force or the threat of force to pursue its interests without any obstruction.»

On his release, he managed to flee the country with his pregnant wife, who faced the threat of a forced abortion.

For his trouble, he was rewarded with the threat of forced resignation when over 100 churches said they would stop the flow of donations to the SBC if Moore didn't lay off Trump.

Laws without the threat of force to back them up are useless, and as G. E. M. Anscombe once noted, men without laws are miserable.

We know it to be bred in families where children and spouses are abused and maltreated, where problems are met with force or threat of force.

The threat of force is exactly what makes community policing so effective, and welcomed, by residents who live in bad neighborhoods.

This construal of reality is military in the sense that the use of force or of the threat of force secures and maintains one's disproportionate right to goods — and this power is equated with happiness.

In reality, the pimp traffics young women (and sometimes men) completely against their will by force or threat of force; this is human sex trafficking.

Japan's constitution, written during the U.S. - led occupation after World War II, renounces war and the use or threat of force to resolve international conflicts and says military forces «will never be maintained.»

Schools deemed coasting will no longer face the threat of forced academisation or a change of sponsor following a U-turn due to be announced by the education secretary today.

Schools deemed coasting will no longer face the threat of forced academisation or a change of sponsor following a U-turn due to be announced by the education secretary...

In some states, that means using physical force, threats of force, or even removing your car from a closed garage without your permission.

For example, the creditor may not come onto your property or otherwise commit a «breach of the peace» during the repossession by using physical force or threats of force or breaking into locked buildings.

Many MMOs in particular, have attempted to embrace a libertarian ideal for the genre, encouraging players to do whatever the game allows, and then allowing players to use the threat of force to correct problems on their own.

Sometimes, it's just the government offering compensation plus the threat of force.

Robbery occurs when you use force or the threat of force to commit a theft directly from another person.

We wrote about the issue here in November, just after the court heard oral arguments in Chambers and on the heels of a U.S. Sentencing Commission report that looked at failure - to - report cases and found that none involved the use or threat of force.

(f) the nature, duration and history of any relationship between the parties to the incident, including any prior use or threat of force and the nature of that force or threat;

(b) the act that constitutes the offence is committed for the purpose of defending or protecting themselves or the other person from that use or threat of force; and

(a) they believe on reasonable grounds that force is being used against them or another person or that a threat of force is being made against them or another person;

(h) whether the act committed was in response to a use or threat of force that the person knew was lawful.

Nikolas Stürchler is a Diplomatic Officer at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Directorate of International Law, and author of «The Threat of Force in International Law» (Cambridge University Press 2007).

Their mere presence is not a threat or assult of course, but if they are attempting to deterre someone from acting in negative manner the security personel would likely have to get close to the person and make demands that they leave or stop whatever activity their engaged in in a manner that could be considered a threat of force if they don't comply.

The accused believes on reasonable grounds that force is being used against them or another person or that a threat of force is being made against them or another person;

In Canada, even the very act of saying of making a threat of sexual violence is a threat of force.

Assault is the application of force or the threat of force against another individual without their consent and without legal justification or excuse.

A criminal sexual assault may occur if you use force or the threat of force, if your victim is a family member, or if the victim is a between the ages of 9 and 17.

The second is using force or the threat of force.

It's circumstances that require the victim to respond to force, or threats of force, with force in order to stop an attack.

Extortion means that a property owner consented to give up property, but only did so because they were under the threat of force or fear.

(2) With the intent, by force or threat of force, to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person because of the person's exercise of any right secured by federal, state, or local law or to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from exercising any right secured by federal, state, or local law;

The term «kidnapping» is defined under Florida's statute 787.01 as using force, a threat of force, or acted secretly to imprison, abduct or confine...

Domestic violence orders are available in certain circumstances when your spouse, former spouse or a person of the opposite sex with whom you live attempts to cause bodily injury, or intentionally causes bodily injury or places you in fear of imminent serious bodily injury by the threat of force.

Reduce coercive processes (anger, verbal aggression, threats of force, emotional abuse) by caregivers and other family members.