Sentence examples for imposing one's will from inspiring English sources

No - because not imposing one's will on others in their homes is only half the story: it's only the "Let Live" part of "Live and Let Live".

As Jürgen Habermas has argued, this has the effect of screening any and all strategic understandings of power (where power is understood in the Weberian sense as imposing one's will on another) out of her analysis (Habermas 1994).

A brief survey of a few notable thinkers suggests that coercion has commonly been understood as a use of a certain kind of power for the purpose of gaining advantages over others (including self-protection), punishing non-compliance with demands, and imposing one's will on the will of other agents.

The key seems to be to ask more meaningful questions about the difficulties of imposing one's will on others through the use of military force.

And babbling about imposing one's will, as if war were a matter of Ray Lewis making a goal line stand, does not tell us anything about what, exactly, we're doing in Afghanistan.

"Success will be less a matter of imposing one's will and more a function of shaping behavior of friends, adversaries, and most importantly, the people in between," he said.

Still others define power-over as a particular type of capacity, namely, the capacity to impose one's will on others; on this view, power-over is a derivative form of power-to (Allen 1999, Lukes 2005).

Or are they actors?" Having sat through a few wise and many silly "director's theater" productions of classics, I sympathized with Godard's plight: Perhaps it's more honest to surrender to a masterpiece than impose one's will on it.

To make a film, just as to design a building, takes a creative impulse, as well as the business acumen to assemble the finance, and the personality to impose one's will on construction workers, actors and crew.

In terms that were as worthy a description as any of the Boycott Law itself, Steinitz called boycotting "a belligerent attempt to impose one's will on a public which thinks otherwise".

It requires understanding power as the capacity to act, not simply the ability to impose one's will.