Sentence examples for uncoerced from inspiring English sources

Dr Myrskyla's data, however, suggest the ultimate outcome of development may not be a collapsing population at all but, rather, the environmentalist's nirvana of uncoerced zero population growth.Why this change has come about, and why the demographic transition happens in the first place, are matters of debate.

It is voluntary and uncoerced.

She also lectured on "free love," by which she meant an uncoerced attachment between two persons for whom conventions of law and church were irrelevant, and she was jailed briefly in 1916 for speaking out on birth control.

According to them, an action is free if it is voluntary and uncoerced, and an action can be voluntary and uncoerced even though it is causally determined.

That definition holds that leisure is uncoerced, contextually framed activity engaged in during free time, which people want to do and, using their abilities and resources, actually do in a satisfying or a fulfilling way (or both).

Uncoerced, people at leisure believe that they are doing something they are not disagreeably obliged to do.

For the foregoing condensed definition of leisure to be understood, its reference to "uncoerced activity" must be clarified by defining "activity".

And who could say, he might even one day testify at a trial, at which he would need to appear a credible and uncoerced witness.

He also held that, in ordinary speech situations, people commit themselves to the truth of the assertions they make; in particular, they implicitly claim that their assertions can be vindicated in an "ideal speech situation"—a dialogue that is completely free and uncoerced, in which no force prevails but that of the better argument.

The New Museum also palpably credits viewers with a will and a right to uncoerced experience.

"A confession cannot fairly be called 'uncoerced' that results from the sort of calculated manipulation that appears to be present here — even if the police did not actually beat or torture the confessor, or threaten to do so," Judge Robert S. Smith wrote in a concurring opinion.