Sentence examples for coercive imposition from inspiring English sources

Participating in the democratic process by running candidates for political office who then try to pass legislation is hardly a "coercive imposition," Douthat objects.

Linker, whose book "The Theocons" will be published this fall, says that Douthat's attempt at "becoming less scary to the moody center of the political spectrum" is "just tactics": "And the end is the same: the coercive imposition of Catholic-Christian moral absolutes on a modern nation currently lacking in a Catholic-Christian cultural consensus".

What distinguishes punishment from other kinds of coercive imposition is that punishment is precisely intended to …: but to what?

Those who insist on the coercive imposition of that right are a grave danger to both individual and communal well-being.

If the state need not be neutral among rival understandings of the good, then is the door not open for the coercive imposition of state policies designed to promote the good?

Affirmative action programs of this sort might be justified on the ground that in a world where discrimination persists, coercive imposition of quotas helps here and now to bring about greater fulfillment of formal equality of opportunity.

In this perspective, quality work is characterized by coercive impositions, moreover often in forms that are inappropriate for primary care.

This involved propelling certain groups into education and pushing others, through coercive devices like the imposition of the "hut tax," into military service.

Jonathan Quong holds that public justification concerns the imposition of coercive laws (Quong 2011, 233 250).

He suggests that egalitarian principles of distributive justice are what justifies the imposition of coercive political authority on autonomous agents.

According to Musitu and García (2001), indulgent parents interact with their children as if they were mature and capable of self-control, consult with them about important household decisions and avoid the use of imposition and coercive measures of control.