Sentence examples for forced membership from inspiring English sources
Given what's at stake – death or forced membership in a violent gang – it seems odd to be arguing about the exact meaning of words in our humanitarian laws instead of seeking to achieve the goals of the laws themselves.
The NLRB forces firms to "deal" with unions, allows forced membership (and dues) on workers who do not want to participate in a union, and prohibits companies from replacing or firing those who conspire to sabotage or undermine it from within.
The change that is needed is simply to recognize that forced membership in a group that violates a person's conscience is a form of social group persecution.
Decades later, Gilmour asserts, Venice's "incorporation into the kingdom of Italy — which its people did not want — was almost as much an aberration in its history as its forced membership" in the Hapsburg and Napoleonic empires.
Arizona is notorious for having right-to-work laws that ostensibly prevent forced union membership.
The bill, he said, would prohibit "forced union membership" and usher in an era of "true workplace freedom".
Dr. Hatfill's résumé made claims (a Ph.D. degree, work with the U.S. Special Forces, membership in Britain's Royal Society of Medicine) that appear false, but these were never checked.
I hope I'm wrong, but its initial paper and the task force membership suggest that it will just be another cog in the vast Wall Street influence machinery that has come to dominate Washington.
Phyllis Murphy, who identifies herself as a born-again Christian and is well known locally for her letters to the editor branding homosexuality a sin, was appointed in April soon after she had called the task force membership "rude, arrogant and opinionated" in a letter to Supervisor Vincent J. Cannuscio.
In addition, although current members of such groups are often listed on agency Web sites, past commission/task force membership lists are not easily available.
China accepted this deal because its membership forced other countries to eliminate quotas and cut tariffs on Chinese exports — and these exports have been soaring ever since.
