The purely selfish kinds of coercion are a form of predatory behaviour by the coercing party, whose aim is to narrow down the scope of other people ’ s actions so as to make them instrumental to its own personal interests.

According to Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions, the negation operator in a singular sentence can take either wide or narrow scope: we distinguish between " some S is not P " ( where negation takes " narrow scope ") and " it is not the case that ' some S is P '" ( where negation takes " wide scope ").

The sentences " Socrates is not bald " and " it is not the case that Socrates is bald " both appear to have the same meaning, and they both appear to assert or presuppose the existence of someone ( Socrates ) who is not bald, so that negation takes narrow scope.

Postwar pundits were not as kind, pointing out the rather narrow scope of human psyche that he represented and deprecatingly referring to him as a " spécialiste de l ' amour " specialist " for the sickly-sweet characteristics of his poetic imagination.

As many crimes have very narrow sentencing bands, a prosecutor often has scope to propose whatever degree of " discounted " charges, or substitution of misdemeanor rather than felony charges, to whatever extent they believe would incentivise a defendant to make a guilty plea and accept a speedy conviction, regardless of actual guilt.

The terms " myopia " and " myopic " ( or the common terms " shortsightedness " or " shortsighted ", respectively ) have been used metaphorically to refer to cognitive thinking and decision making that is narrow in scope or lacking in foresight or in concern for wider interests or for longer-term consequences.

The railroad opened national markets to the paper mill, allowing its business to expand beyond a narrow regional scope.

fair dealing involved ( the scope of which is extraordinarily narrow ), a statutory

Exceptions to copyright protection are required to be clearly defined and narrow in scope and reach.

In the 2003 Charter case Doucet-Boudreau, some Supreme Court justices wished to narrow the scope of the remedial section 24 by citing fundamental justice.

With these five processes, a strategy which is rational within a narrow scope can lead to outcomes that are harmful or irrational.

Churchill chose however to narrow the scope of Morgenthau's proposal by drafting a new version of the memorandum, which ended up being the version signed by the two statesmen.

A limitation of a human-powered utility vehicle is the relative weakness of human power compared to many motors, leaving a narrow scope for balancing tare weight, payload, geographical and topographical range against each other.

Few banks today restrict their activities to such a narrow scope.

Market segmentation is narrow in scope while both cost leadership and differentiation are relatively broad in market scope.

The firm can choose to compete in the mass market ( like Wal-Mart ) with a broad scope, or in a defined, focused market segment with a narrow scope.

Directories may be very narrow in scope, supporting only a small set of node types and data types, or they may be very broad, supporting an arbitrary or extensible set of types.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

Arrows designed to pierce armor in the Middle Ages would use a very narrow and sharp tip (" bodkinhead ") to concentrate the force.

Arrows used for hunting would use a narrow tip (" broadhead ") that widens further, to facilitate both penetration and a large wound.

An argument that the power to issue shares could only be properly exercised to raise new capital was rejected as too narrow, and it was held that it would be a proper exercise of the director's powers to issue shares to a larger company to ensure the financial stability of the company, or as part of an agreement to exploit mineral rights owned by the company.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

The discovery of the kokhim tombs just beyond the west end of the Church, and more recent archaeological investigation of the rotunda floor, suggest that a narrow spur of at least ten yards length would have had to jut out from the rock face if the contents of the Aedicule were once inside it.

As a narrow example, there would be further specific moral opinions for each individual of that species.

Because waves at different frequencies propagate at differing phase velocities in dispersive media, for a large frequency range ( a narrow envelope in space ) the observed pulse would change shape while traveling, making group velocity an unclear or useless quantity.

A narrow definition would take in roughly the same area as the modern states of Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jordan, while a wider definition would include Syria.

During this time, the Tories and Labour had exchanged places at the top of the opinion polls on numerous occasions, and by the time of the election most opinion polls were showing a slim Labour lead, which most observers predicted would translate into a hung parliament or a narrow Labour victory at the election.

It refers to late medieval navigation jargon, when captains of the Hanseatic trading fleets would compare the Danish Straits to a hole so narrow that even a cat would have difficulty squeezing its way through on account of the many reefs and shallow waters.

For example, the width of roads and small streams are exaggerated when they are too narrow to be shown on the map at true scale ; that is, on a printed map they would be narrower than could be perceived by the naked eye.

A narrow stream say must be shown to have the width of a pixel even if at the map scale it would be a small fraction of the pixel width.

However the consumption of moose liver or kidneys significantly increased cadmium intake, with the study revealing that heavy consumers of moose organs have a relatively narrow safety margin below the levels which would probably cause adverse health effects.

In the run-up to the election, held on 9 April 1992, most opinion polls had suggested that the election would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority.

An artificial canal would then be cut across the narrow isthmus of Rivas ( its lowest point is above sea level ) to reach the Pacific Ocean at San Juan del Sur.

Concerned that the considerable price increase of a Type 911 with " flat " six-cylinder powerplant over the Type 356 would cost the company sales and narrow brand appeal, Porsche executives decided to introduce a new four-cylinder entry-level model.

SETI projects necessarily make assumptions to narrow the search, the foremost being that electromagnetic radiation would be a medium of communication for advanced extraterrestrial life.

These signals would be easy to recognize as artificial due to their repetitive nature and narrow bandwidths.

During fast shutter speeds, the focal-plane shutter would form a ' slit ' whereby the second shutter curtain was closely following the first opening shutter curtain to produce a narrow, vertical opening, with the shutter slit moving horizontally.

The route to southern Greece ( Boeotia, Attica and the Peloponnesus ) would require the army of Xerxes to travel through the very narrow pass of Thermopylae.

The dissenting justices read the amendment's text as reflecting a narrow form of sovereign immunity that limited only the diversity jurisdiction of the federal courts.

In the narrow Christian sense, legenda (" things to be read a certain day, in church ") were hagiographical accounts, often collected in a legendary ( legendarium ).

It can be seen by going along the carrugio, the narrow street dividing the Old Town into two, called via del Prione taking its name from pietrone or large stone, in local dialect in fact prione, from where public announcements were read.

But in Galbraith v HM Advocate ( 2002 ) JC 1 it was held that the formula in Savage was not to be read in a narrow sense, and it was not necessary that all the criteria in that formula had to be present.

It originally appeared with a warning label that read " WARNING: This album contains country & western music and may cause offence to narrow minded listeners.

Using computer designed, curved mirrors to collect the light from 39 Xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam, engineers say that a person could read a newspaper by Luxor ’ s Sky Beam from ten miles up.

Here Christopher Hassall read his poem to the boys and held them spellbound as the stars shone through the narrow Gothic windows in the gabled roof …………"

Elwin is said to have read the book with interest and agreed that it had merit, but feared that the subject of evolution was too narrow to attract a wide audience.

Each end of the bar code consists of repeated narrow elements terminated by a pair of wide elements, but the start has a wide bar first, while if the code is read in reverse, the wide space will be encountered first.

Foster's tale has been read on the one hand as a “ novel for providing a subversive message about the ways in which the lives of women even of the elite are subject to narrow cultural constraints ” and, on the other hand, as an instructive novel that “ comes down on the side of the ideology of Republican motherhood and the women ’ s sphere, a sphere that celebrated those women who with appropriate sentiment and rationality accepted their “ place ” in the world.

Barker has stated in Faces of Fear that an inspiration for The Books of Blood was when he read Dark Forces in the early 1980s and realized that a horror story collection need not have any narrow themes, consistent tone or restrictions.

Pharmacode is read from right to left, also in left to right ( if omnidirectional scanner ): with as the bar position starting at 0 on the right, each narrow bar adds to the value and each wide bar adds.