Sentence examples for coercive process from inspiring English sources

Marketing is not a coercive process: all parties must be free to accept or reject what others are offering.

The very object and purpose of the eleventh amendment were to prevent the indignity of subjecting a state to the coercive process of judicial tribunals at the instance of private parties.

The county was named after Peter C. Shannon, a judge who took part in the corrupt and coercive process of carving up the enormous Great Sioux Reservation in the late 19th century.

In what was experienced by most teacher preparation programs as a fairly coercive process, NCTQ requested that programs submit an assortment of documents -- course syllabi, program handbooks, evaluation rubrics, and on and on.

In other situations, even the full process of a board hearing was not sufficient to create agreement between the parties, and a more coercive process was required (for example, applications to the courts).

"Results consistently suggest that physical punishment has a direct causal effect on externalising behaviour, whether through a reflexive response to pain, modelling or coercive family processes".

Psychiatrist Robert Lifton of Harvard Medical School gives three defining characteristics of a destructive cult: a process of coercive persuasion or "thought reform", a charismatic leader who becomes an object of worship, and economic, sexual, or other exploitation of group members by the leader and his/her in-group.

While some women were ready to take the tests and easily approved the exercise, others were not and felt the process was coercive.

He also acknowledged that the plea-bargain process "clearly is coercive" when defendants face harsher or more numerous charges for rejecting deals.

During his mayoral campaign last year, Mr. Bloomberg called for the elimination of partisan elections in New York, arguing that the influence of the Democratic and Republican Parties had a coercive effect on the electoral process.

Some experts say the process has become coercive in many state and federal jurisdictions, forcing defendants to weigh their options based on the relative risks of facing a judge and jury rather than simple matters of guilt or innocence.