Sentences with phrase «despite ethics issues»

Despite ethics issues — stemming from a ski trip to New York, the exchange of legislative assistance for campaign contributions, and the hiring of his wife as a campaign fund - raiser — Sweeney enjoys a double - digit lead.

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But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss religion and ethics --- for example, creationism in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Despite the conviction of the New York State Legislature's former top two leaders, and a series of ethical issues plaguing lawmakers from Buffalo, ethics reforms are on hold, for now, in Albany.

* Republican gubernatorial primary: This is a crowded field as a number of Republicans see the ethics problems swirling around the Blagojevich administration as a potential winning issue despite the state's Democratic tilt.

Therefore, spotting ethical issues raised by carbon cap and trade regimes may be practically valuable despite the inability on some issues to determine unambiguously what ethics demands, if spotting the ethical questions leads to eliminating from consideration some positions on these issues that fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

In short, we will argue improvement is possible in how IPCC deals with ethics, justice, and equity issues entailed by climate change policy - making despite very significant improvements on these matters in the AR5 report compared to prior IPCC reports.

Therefore it is possible to get traction for ethics and justice issues despite disagreement on what justice precisely requires.