Sentence examples for based on coercion from inspiring English sources

In militant societies economic life was based on coercion and directed in one way or another by government, while in industrial societies the economy was based on contract and voluntary exchange.

An economic system based on free labour and free exchange is far more dynamic and adaptable than a system based on coercion.

There is a distinction, he argues, between state institutions based on coercion, like prisons or border control, and those which could (in a post-capitalist future) be run as voluntary collectives, like health care.

Under the strict censorship of the Pahlavi dictatorship and the shah's Savak secret police, Kiarostami depicted children as stubbornly determined free agents making moral choices, in an education system based on coercion and indoctrination.

First, many families, rather than based on love and consent are based on coercion.

This article uses sex legislation as an example to demonstrate how the old rape law based on coercion has anti-therapeutic effects on rape victims.

The present system is based on harassment, coercion and suspicion (as even the previous finance minister admitted) as well as corruption.

VA teams do not offer gratuities to families of the deceased based on perceived coercion to participate in the VA process.

As Christopher Hitchens has put it, torture is practised by those "whose whole outlook is based on stupidity and coercion, and you can bet that even with a ticking bomb nearby they would be busily gang-raping the wrong guy".

One way to understand it is to take it as saying that human beings have to learn to respond to a kind of authority that is not based on force and coercion, but respect and care.

To support his argument, Mackey shares his view that "business isn't based on exploitation or coercion at all.