Sentences with phrase «with coercive»

On the basis of the interview data, participants subsequently were divided into two relationship groups: (1) a group whose marriages contained physical violence coupled with coercive control (the CCV group) and (2) a group whose marriages contained conflict - motivated physical violence in the absence of coercion and control (the non-CCV or situational violence group).

«Patent trolls have abused our patent system with their coercive bribery schemes for far too long»

Government (or «private blockchain») applications will be hard because an introduction of a party with coercive powers undermines the central idea of blockchains as transaction vehicles with zero trust issues.

Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that cat redemptions are just as likely, if not more likely, to decline once voluntary cat identification efforts are replaced with a coercive licensing mandate.

They were asked if they had read any or all of the series, and also asked about their experiences with coercive, controlling, or abusive relationships.

China Aid said the Christians were threatened with coercive measures if they fail to vacate the building the next day.

Fourth, occasional intervention with coercive efficient causation to counteract excess evil is not as equitable to all occasions in the world as the constant intervention in every occasion with final cause tending to overcome evil.

Since it functions to free them from the necessity of sheer repetition of the past and to offer them alternative ways of constituting themselves, it is to be sharply contrasted with the coercive forces of the world.

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.

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

«It saw clearly the contrast between the state, with its coercive power, and the church - and the importance of the freedom of the church against the state, especially where the state tries to control it,» Bennett said.

But if these approaches always showed up in coherent form with coercive intent, as they would in a bloc or a sect, the republic would suffer.

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

This power is driven by fear of consequences and of what the person with the coercive power can do to you if you disobey.

Not exact matches

... Also in January 2018, and concerned the truth would be disclosed, Mr. Cohen, through intimidation and coercive tactics, forced Ms. Clifford into signing a false statement wherein she stated that reports of her relationship with Mr. Trump were false.»

With this understanding of power, the attribution to God of coercive power seems to be a mistake.

This is particularly the case as issues of poverty become increasingly entwined with drugs and violent crime, which in any case demand immediate coercive interaction by some sanctioned authority.

What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.

If in saying that the world is God's body, we mean that God controls the world in the same way that we control our bodies, then we have the same moral problems with God that we have with humans who rely on coercive power.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

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.

In «Deity, Monarchy and Metaphysics» Williams explains Whitehead's moral and metaphysical objections to the coercive God of classical theology.102 In its place Whitehead proposes an idea of God consistent with the biblical insight that «the highest goods are realized only through persuasion.»

They acknowledge that there is an important nonpersuasive form of coercive power which can unilaterally restrict or destroy the ability of individuals to act in accordance with their wishes.

Only if we have begun with the presumption that what is ultimate must be sheer coercive power and control.

That God's control is in fact limited by the existence of evil would signify a limited coercive power, but it is compatible with unlimited persuasive power.

Pure coercive power transforms creatio ex nihilo into creatio ex deo, with the world possessing no more independent actuality than an idea in the divine mind would have.

But even with our nation, Crowe argues, there exists neither an adequate common value system, a compelling monopoly of coercive force, nor the required administrative devices sufficient to prevent the differential exploitation of the commons.

The argument that a solely persuasive God is more powerful than the traditional coercive God is in some tension with the explanation that God does not intervene coercively to prevent excess evil because he does not have the power.

In the first set of meanings the difference between coercive power and persuasive power has to do with the physicality of the coercive power and the ideality of the persuasive power.

Such an efficacious grace, he believed, would be coercive and inconsistent with human freedom.

I find myself in fundamental agreement with Cobb that the really worthwhile power that God should exercise is persuasive, and I would meet the first criticism by saying that God should not use more coercive power than is apparently being exercised in the world.

Ford sympathizes, noting that the Old Testament's «dominant experience of divine power seems to emphasize coercive elements, with the symbols for power drawn heavily from the military and political spheres» (LG 15).

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

It is unclear to me, however, why an entity that has the influence that God has at the level of creativity - characterization could never be said to have the capacity to coerce another entity Sureh; through granting and withholding novel forms, through organizing the network of inclusion and exclusion of past characteristics in the provision of the new entity» with its actual world, and through shaping the very purposes of the new entity; God can sometimes act in ways that in ordinary language we would consider to be coercive.36 But these considerations do not stem from any of my revisions.

First, on office: Paul's argument at the end of Romans 12, affirming a flat prohibition on vengeance, is fully consistent with the magistrate's coercive activity in Romans 13.

Yahweh lost his coercive entanglements with national loyalty and racial cult, and in a new liberation, unimaginable had not the expulsion of Christianity from Judaism taken place, he became a universal God, with no local temple or chosen people to limit him, and with worshipers of all tongues and nations on equal terms — neither Jew nor Greek, neither Scythian, barbarian, bond nor free, but one man in Christ.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 170) Whitehead replaces the characterization of God as an absolute despot with the Platonic conviction»... that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency.»

Process Theology says that although God does not have coercive power, that is God can't make you do something you don't want to do, God does have persuasive power, which means that if you invite God into your life, God is immediately there with hints and suggestions that you are either free to accept or not.

Paul David Tripp called Mars Hill Church, «the most abusive, coercive ministry culture I've ever been involved with» and person after person has come forward to say the same.

It is our fear of adventure and our obsession with safety that give rise to the projection of God as coercive power.

It is because we are unconvinced of the power of persuasive love that we want to invest God with dictatorial coercive power.

Above all, the coercive power of our legal system, already stretched thin, must be used with caution and chiefly against evils about which there is something like universal consensus.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Feeling as though they have no place to stand, they can be seduced by strong men who promise protection and become infatuated with artificial, coercive, and violent forms of solidarity.

I have no problem with that agenda in a world in which coercion is necessary to control a fallen humanity, and in which the coercive powers of government are themselves wielded by fallen humans.

The Trump administration released a memorandum, stating that «there is no evidence that UNFPA directly engages in coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations in China» but said nevertheless the agency «continues to partner with [China's family planning agency] on family planning, and thus can be found to support, or participate in the management of China's coercive policies.»

We limited those coercive powers, I'm happy to say — not with any help from the government, because the government voted against the amendment to limit the coercive powers, which was ostensibly the intended purpose of the bill.

• The stepfather - child relationship is substantially more challenging than the biological - father - child relationship: the relationship is not as close; stepfathers are less affectionate and more coercive with stepchildren; and stepchildren tend to be less warm and affectionate with stepfathers — even in long - term fairly successful stepfamilies (for review see Radhakrishna et al, 2001).

It's the reason why professors are forbidden from having sex with grad students even though they are all adults — the professor holds so much power over the students that its inherently coercive.