Sentences with phrase «under coercion»

But the Society of Will Writers warns that the online matchmaking service could be «devastating» — encouraging clients to deal with solicitors and other will writers remotely rather than face to face and making it impossible to establish whether the client is acting under coercion.

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?

Worrying but unconfirmed reports suggest that in the worst cases prison staff can be complicit in sexual assaults, demanding that inmates provide sexual services under coercion.

Or one works under coercion, because of fear of the disfavor of «the boss,» or from fear of penalties affixed or favors withheld in the case of failure to produce results.

Not exact matches

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.

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

«Ambition, competition, manipulation, coercion, exploitation and success» can happen under any title.

Mark, those «negotiations» under duress are coercion and not real negotiations at all.

coercion was used under the threat of death and exorbitant taxes were assessed to convert the conquered to islam.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

Much of sin gets into the human spirit under the guise of love; but the sin is not always the coercion of the other, it is the perversion of goals, the misuse of power, and the self - justification which grows not from love but from its absence.

But its power of coercion does not extend to the affairs of eternal life and it therefore must maintain and respect the right of the church, under the Word of God, to regulate preaching, the administration of the sacraments, absolution, excommunication, and the ordering of divine services.

However, once you sign the consent papers, your rights to your child will be terminated and your baby can't be returned unless you can prove that your decision was made under duress or coercion.

«The former solicitor general and current interim attorney general is a Cuomo appointee, the inspector general is a Cuomo appointee, the head of (the Joint Commission on Public Ethics) is a Cuomo appointee and every other constitutional branch of government outside of the U.S. attorney has shrunk from their responsibility under the weight of Cuomo coercion.

On the other hand, one may argue that faced with a ban, women from (conservative salafi) families may not go out at all (again, either because they believe they should not, or because they are under pressure or coercion), which would mean that without a ban, those women are a bit freeer than with a ban.

... We're definitely under more pressure and can feel the dragon waiting hungrily for results, micromanaging our projects and — indirectly — our lives, squeezing the breath out of their students by tyranny or coercion.

To succeed it requires more centralized coercion than is possible (or desirable) under our current political system and more coercive than organized educators will allow.

The Memorandum allows for the exchange of safety, coercion and retaliation allegations, when received by one agency, that fall under the authority of the other.

The report recommended expanding access to voluntary methods of family planning, but under the heading «An Alternative View,» it broached the case for coercion.

If a contract is ambiguous, illegal, provides less than what is stipulated under employment standards law, or is entered into under duress or coercion, it may be set aside.

Still, there is one chapter that I would particularly recommend, at least if you have some basic affinity for legal theory: George Pavlakos and Joost Pauwelyn's «Principled Monism and the Normative Conception of Coercion Under International Law «(pp. 317 - 341).

If the contract is ambiguous, illegal, provides less than employment standards legislation or is entered into under duress or coercion, it may be set aside.

Only if the school influences students to attend (or not attend), could this fall under government coercion and be actionable.

«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.»

He or she will make sure that you and your spouse have an opportunity to express your feelings and views, preventing any decisions from being made by coercion or under pressure.

Under the right circumstances, having sex when you don't really feel like it isn't creepy coercion — sometimes it's just love.

Lindy West at Jezebel, although critical of WSJ article's focus on the stereotypical example of the «long - suffering, sex - hungry husband vs. frigid, withholding wife,» notes the importance of sexual compatibility in a relationship and suggests that «under the right circumstances, having sex when you don't really feel like it isn't creepy coercion — sometimes it's just love.

But why would any informed and reasonably intelligent individual who is not under duress and coercion, ever agree to living with one who can not be appealed, discharged, or limited to issues brought before him?

Fair market value is considered to be the amount the two parties under no kind of coercion agree on with both parties in perfect knowledge of the goods or services.