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Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.
And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering and knowledge is better than ignorance and superstition.
We've seen a coercion strategy in which sexual structures are used in a forceful way to basically make a female have sex.
Now unfortunately, in the animal kingdom, it's the coercion strategy that we see time and time again.
Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual coercion to take place.
By 2007, when a survey of appraisers was done, 90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal.
Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion to compel another person's labor.
Regardless of whether force, fraud or coercion is used.
And it's worth considering how this is serving girls; whether it's keeping them safer from disease, coercion, betrayal, assault.
The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.
And, choice is the antidote to coercion and condescension.
It's a way to create new rules, and let people opt-in without coercion, and the opposition that coercion can force.
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
You can do it with threats of coercion, "sticks," you can do it with payments, "carrots," or you can do it by getting others to want what you want.
And that ability to get others to want what you want, to get the outcomes you want without coercion or payment, is what I call soft power.
The show dealt with serious issues like rape, corruption, driving under the influence, mental illness, wife beatings, gun violence, child pornography, indifference, coercion, drug usage, governmental bureaucracy, and child exploitation.
Besides stealing, gender prejudice, coercion of minors and a gross manipulation of justice, I can't see how this Christmas story could inspire any better moral qualities.
And, as a rule, such states then try to safeguard their interests by imposing their predominance (hegemony), which is a recipe for dangerous conflict if based on coercion rather than cooperation.
The US prevailed not because of its military superiority, but because of its soft power, and because its hegemony was based not on coercion (though there was some of that, too), but largely on consent.
It is equally important to allow both states and asylum-seekers to express their preferences, using the least possible coercion.
The first option would require coercion, and – since countries will not accept that others should gain a competitive edge – an international agreement to forego the benefits that genetic enhancement can bring.
With diplomacy having failed to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, critics of engagement charge, it is time to resort to coercion before Iran crosses the nuclear Rubicon.
First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion.
According to this plainly naive approach, the negotiation process operates according to its own embedded logic, independent of considerations of power, coercion, and leverage.
Nowadays, it relies more on psychological coercion and control than on discrimination or physical constraints.
As Nye put it, a country’s power rests on its “ability to alter the behavior of others” to get what it wants, whether through coercion (sticks), payments (carrots), or attraction (soft power).
The Limits of Chinese Soft PowerCAMBRIDGE – China has been making major efforts to increase its ability to influence other countries without force or coercion.
Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric does not rule out a patient policy of economic assistance, quiet diplomacy, and multilateral efforts to support the development of civil society, the rule of law, and support for well-managed elections.
Soft power rests on attraction rather than coercion or payment.
It is instructive to consider whether those who suggest that a country like Iran would capitulate over the freezing of some bank accounts would themselves give in to the sort of coercion posed by sanctions.
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