coercively

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It is only in circumstances where conversions occur coercively or are undertaken with the intent of mobilising a culture of hate as, for example, undertaken by Hindutva activists, that conversions must be disallowed.

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  1. By constraint or coercion. Burke. We must not expect to find in a rule coercively established by an invader the same traits as in a rule that has grown up from within. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 469.

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  • This set of metrics was used to determine each state's ranking, which the authors of the study describe as the "ability to dispose of one's own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual's ability to do the same."
  • But politicians, who wield power and spend coercively acquired money for a living, have no incentive to see this. —  Dissecting Leftism
  • In the final stages of communism, people engage in mutually beneficial relations not because they bind themselves coercively to prevent exploitation, but because it is the social and psychological norm to abhor exploitation and prefer mutuality. —  The Barefoot Bum
  • We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one's own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on other individuals 'ability to do the same. —  SurvivalBlog.com
  • In addition, they were deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions so that they could be coercively interrogated, and then, when they did not produce the intelligence that the administration thought they should have produced, they were -- as a highly critical —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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