Sentence examples for public coercion from inspiring English sources

He writes, "If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion".

The majority opinion did not precisely respond to that prediction, noting instead that the right claimed by Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Garner did not involve prostitution, public behavior, coercion or minors.

The legal language that eventually passed in Oregon in a popular ballot initiative in 1994 set up strict criteria specifically designed to allay public alarm about coercion or turning doctors, in the words of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, into "notaries of death".

The paradigmatic public use of coercion is judicially imposed punishment, capital or otherwise.

These public uses of coercion are thought justified because they make possible private cooperation and peaceable coexistence among people not linked by ties of affection or blood.

In this way we can at least approximate the requirements of public justification and legitimate coercion.

The secretary rightly dismissed the senator's boot as an "attempted coercion of public acts" and told the Senate to forget about the raise.

A controversial view such as this one has, for them, no place in making law for the public backed up by coercion.

Such an approach will require the active participation of public land managers, continued coercion of non-cooperative landholders, and can be developed from the foundation of existing institutional arrangements for land management, taking into account unique regional relationships and characteristics.

The roster includes allegations of fee-rigging and coercion on public offerings, tainted research, sleazy mutual fund and variable annuity sales practices, electricity-price manipulation, assisting misrepresentation of client financials and even shenanigans from a ten-year-old Indonesian bond deal.

(The Travis County grand jury charged him with "abuse of official capacity" for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funds for a public corruption department, and "coercion of a public servant" for pushing for the resignation of a district attorney after she was convicted of drunk driving).