Sentence examples for coercive of from inspiring English sources

On many campuses, even simple majority rule is regarded as coercive of the minority; policy decisions require a "consensus".

And it is equally as plain that this most coercive of measures used as a first resort was authorised in advance of these recent protests.

A footnote then explains: Human trafficking, child pornography and prostitution, pimping, sexual slavery and forced abortion are inherently coercive of vulnerable females.

Any rights claim, therefore, requires taxation itself the most coercive of government acts and what is spent on protecting any particular right cannot be spent on protecting other rights, or on other public purposes.

The agency's official response to the Senate report noted that headquarters officials provided "guidance" on water dousing "as early as March 2003" and classified the dousing, "considered the most coercive of the standard interrogation techniques in use until early 2004", after which the agency classified it as an "enhanced" technique.

Organized prayer at a school-sponsored event -- even if ostensibly the private choice of a student speaker -- amounts to an official endorsement of religion that is inherently coercive of unwilling participants, Justice John Paul Stevens said in the 6-to-3 decision.

Communitarianism... in its aversion to individualism and its advocacy of coercive means of fostering human association, is another form of collectivism.

The moral presumption is that justice demands should be enforced, and in the absence of anarchy, the state has the role of coercive enforcement of justice.

Additionally, there was no reported evidence of coercive use of home pregnancy tests.

(Two weeks later, Iran's conservative-led parliament passed a resolution demanding "retaliation" by Iran's government in the event of any coercive inspections of Iranian ships by foreign navies).

The main result is the quantitative evaluation of the coercive field of the individual nanostructures.