Sentence examples for coercive violence from inspiring English sources
This definition has the virtue of consistency and fairness; it focusses on the use of coercive violence, whether committed by a religious cult, a political sect, a group of zealots, or the state itself.
God forbid that Cameron should ever be in a position to affix the signboard outside Number 10, advertising his services as fixer of broken societies; for who knows what coercive violence this will mean for poor frail flesh and blood.
The products of the world that surround us, he argues, come from coercive violence, and are described for us by a self-congratulatory media cycle that amplifies our worst instincts.
Civil disobedience is generally regarded as more morally defensible than both ordinary offences and other forms of protest such as militant action or coercive violence.
Acts of terrorisation or large-scale coercive violence are typically associated with a general aim of generating fear and insecurity while keeping any specific aims or demands oblique.
Radical Protest: Some forms of dissent such as coercive violence, organised forcible resistance, militant action, intimidation, and terrorisation lie further outside the realm of tolerated (or tolerable) political action than civil disobedience does.
[ 26] conducted a cluster-randomized trial in 4 wards in Finland to evaluate the effectiveness of preventing coercive measures without violence in high-security wards for males with schizophrenia and a history of severe violence.
Values can either be imposed in coercive ways through violence and indoctrination or shared in positive ways through respect, tolerance, acceptance, and understanding.
Official definition of domestic abuse in England and Wales: "Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality".
For example, the CIA assured the Justice Department that "enhanced interrogations" would begin initially using the least coercive forms of violence and psychological distress techniques.
