Sentences with phrase «acts out of principle»

«This is a man who in the world of politics, where everything is expediency and everybody's calculating and everybody's tactical, this is a man who just stands up and acts out of principle, consequences be damned,» Cuomo said at a ceremony honoring Farrell's retirement.

Not exact matches

But if you act on these principles every day, every member of your company will see higher quality work — and when you zoom out, you'll see a more productive culture for your whole team.

The ethical principles growing out of the biopolitical theology that is here being defended can be stated in a formal, abstract way as follows: Always act in such a way as to maximize maximizing enjoyments.

As he points out, «If all our actions are in principle absurd, the act of heroically resisting their absurdity must also be absurd» (RG 41).

In the tradition of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas worked out precisely how every appetition is directed by a form as by its determining principle, whether this form really belong to a [235] being or be acquired in the act of knowing.8 Thus the kind of appetition peculiar to cognizant beings could be explained as an effect of their cognition.

We can invoke this or that respectable sounding theological principle and we are even capable of convincing ourselves that we are acting out of conscience.

Because it is a moral crisis, Christians have the right and the responsibility to speak out and to act — presumably from the principle of stewardship which rejects and resists any redescription of man's powers relative to God's such that the earth is seen as man's to do with as he will.

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Although he objected to being singled out, Idriss's decision not to comply was as much a result of his uncertainty as an act of principled defiance.

We ensure that any personal information provided by you will be processed in accordance with the nine principles as set out in the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 and the Privacy Policy as set out herein.

Some of the characters, too, are more fully conceived than others: her sneering, Sid Vicious - style punk singer is a cringe - inducing embarrassment, and the comically nasal drawl she gives the stockbroker who lays out the principles of Futurism emanates from nowhere on Earth outside a beginners» acting workshop.

In her introduction to Minow, Casey pointed out that in helping to smuggle Jews out of Europe during World War II, Kohlberg himself was one of the «limited number» of people — along with such legendary figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King — who reach the final plateau, developing and acting on higher principles rather than merely conforming to society's norms.

Today, Rayner said her first act if she becomes education secretary will be to enact the 10 principles of the National Education Service, set out at the Labour Party conference last year.

An instance of such re-examination will be enacted in Christian Falsnaes» performance at the opening on September 7th, when the artist will become the brush, while the audience will act out the role of the artist, thereby questioning the principle of individual authorship.

I suppose, on reading it again, that you could construe what I said to mean that we should not act if we have full scientific certainty... but that's obviously not what I meant, because if we have full scientific certainty (as I pointed out in my examples of seat belts and condoms) we don't need the precautionary principle at all.

When it comes to climate change, publics around the world generally adopt the precautionary principle: Even when in doubt, act out of prudence.

What we see instead is that too many Parties are ignoring climate justice, and even the ethical principles embedded in the treaty and acting instead out of narrow self interest.

... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Actually, the relevant «law» is not the ever rising entropic «heat death» of the universe from CO2, but instead is Le Châtelier's principle for a reaction in physical chemistry: the disturbance of the equilibrium of greenhouse gases H2O and CO2 by CO2 injections acts to oppose the change to the equilibrium, and thus to cancel out the effect on temperature from the increase in CO2.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)'s remit includes enforcing compliance with information rights and obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) and, in particular, the principles set out in Sch 1 of DPA 1998.

Legislating in a common law environment, an Act of Parliament, even a principle Act, does not so much set out the law in an area, as set out the changes to an existing body of law — changes across both statute and common law.»

Acting in the client's (or donor in this example) best interests is one of the five key principles set out in Section 1 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, of which we are required to comply / adhere to.

The right of audience may be granted «in exceptional circumstances and after careful consideration» as stated in the President's Guidance — a principle laid out by Lord Woolf MR in D v S (Rights of Audience)[1997] 1 FLR 724 where the aforementioned Dr Pelling was denied permission to act as an advocate McKenzie friend.

«As stated in Article 5 (2) TEU, «[u] nder the principle of conferral, the Union shall act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein.

That is expressly stated in s. 4.2 of Ontario's Law Society Act: «In carrying out its functions, duties and powers under this Act, the Society shall have regard to the following principles: (1).

Second, the ECJ concluded that «a person who has obtained a copy of a computer program under a license is entitled, without the authorisation of the owner of the copyright, to observe, study or test the functioning of that program so as to determine the ideas and principles which underlie any element of the program, in the case where that person carries out acts covered by the licence and acts of loading and running necessary for the use of the computer program, and on condition that that person does not infringe the exclusive rights of the owner of the copyright in that program» (para. 62).

In the context of party choice — one of the twin pillars of the Arbitration Act 1996 (AA 1996), the other being finality of process — there remains a tension between «ring fencing» the arbitral process and the extent to which fundamental principles of justice can or should be excluded from that process by the parties choosing to opt out from them.

Courts have a wide discretion to redistribute property on divorce, which they exercise according to the principles set out in s 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (MCA 1973) and the concept of «fairness».

As a matter of general principle, a person that automates a process using a computer to carry out an intended purpose is responsible in law for the acts carried out by his or her tool.

Trial by media not by law, of companies and individuals apparently not paying sufficient tax although acting entirely legitimately (borne out by the lack of prosecutions), to politicians and even our last PM referring to a well - known comedian and his personal tax affairs, are all evidence of a less disciplined and principled environment.

So, EC, as the EU institution responsible for safeguarding the principles and rules of the EU Treaties, has the duty to assess (together with DG Comp) the single European market and to evaluate cases that are incompatible with provisions of the Treaties, as well as other legislative acts emanating from it, as set out in Article 17 (1) TEU.

As is well - known, the principle of conferral holds that the EU can act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein.

He pointed out that the principle enunciated in Kahan that a state could not submit to the jurisdiction by prior written agreement was reversed by section 2 of the 1978 Act which was consistent with international practice.

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«When the Ontario Government made poverty reduction a priority, it did so by releasing a comprehensive Poverty Reduction Strategy, along with the Poverty Reduction Act which set out the fundamental principles to guide the Government's actions in reducing poverty,» said Avvy Go, Clinic Director of Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic.

By ensuring that administrative decisions fit within the legislative scheme in a way that makes sense in terms of the basic rules of statutory interpretation and fundamental legal principles, the courts are not acting contrary to the legislative will, but rather carrying it out.

The Council, acting unanimously, shall, on the basis of the experience acquired under the association of the countries and territories with the Community and of the principles set out in this Treaty, lay down provisions as regards the detailed rules and the procedure for the association of the countries and territories with the Community.

(1) whether the onset of deep vein thrombosis («DVT») sustained during the course of, or arising out of, international carriage by air, whether as a result of an act and / or omission of the carrier or otherwise, is capable, in principle, of being «an accident» causing bodily injury within the maening of Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention, (2) whether a claim against an air carrier for personal injury or death alleged to have been sustained during the course of, or as a result of, international carriage by air can be brought at common law in the alternative or in addition to a claim under the applicable version of the Warsaw Convention, (3) whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applies to claims brought against air carriers under the Warsaw Convention and / or at common law in relation to personal injury or death alleged to have been suffered by a passenger during the course of, or as a result of, international carriage by air and if so with what resuact and / or omission of the carrier or otherwise, is capable, in principle, of being «an accident» causing bodily injury within the maening of Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention, (2) whether a claim against an air carrier for personal injury or death alleged to have been sustained during the course of, or as a result of, international carriage by air can be brought at common law in the alternative or in addition to a claim under the applicable version of the Warsaw Convention, (3) whether the Human Rights Act 1998 applies to claims brought against air carriers under the Warsaw Convention and / or at common law in relation to personal injury or death alleged to have been suffered by a passenger during the course of, or as a result of, international carriage by air and if so with what resuAct 1998 applies to claims brought against air carriers under the Warsaw Convention and / or at common law in relation to personal injury or death alleged to have been suffered by a passenger during the course of, or as a result of, international carriage by air and if so with what result.

The case of Gissing v Gissing [1971] AC 886 sets out the basic principles of a constructive trust; there must be a common intention or agreement between the couple that they were to share the benefi cial interest and the non-owner acted to their detriment in relying on such intention.

It was accepted that the orders had implemented the first defendant lord chancellor's prior policy decision (the decision) that the principle of «full cost recovery» in setting court fees (the principle) should be applied to public law family proceedings; that the rationale for the decision had been a wish to fix fees at a level which reflected the true cost to the courts services and to replace the then extant model which involved heavy subsidisation; and that s 92 of the Courts Act 2003 (CA 2003) was relevant insofar as it empowered the lord chancellor to prescribe court fees by order, and that it set out obligations to «consult» specified judicial persons, the Civil Justice Council in civil proceedings, and «persons likely to have to pay [fees]», prior to the making of any orders.

The Handbook sets out a list of «indicative behaviours», the presence of which may indicate that the firm is acting in compliance with the principles.

Benchers are LSUC's board of directors and are elected by the membership to carry out LSUC's «functions, duties and powers under [The Law Society Act having] regard to the following principles:

In addition, the principles set out by the High Court will (as it recognised) be applicable to applications to the new Court of Protection to be established under the Mental Capacity Act 2005: as from October 2007, that court will effectively take over responsibility for this area of law from the High Court.

The report also pointed out that, although the government's assessment of native title for the purposes of s 87 NTA should be guided by legal principles, it should also be mindful of the context in which the assessment occurs, «that of negotiation and mediation pursuant to a «special» process provided under the Act».

Family law is essentially based on a number of broad principles derived from reported court cases and statutory FACTORS set out in s25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1975 which are worth a read.

[39] The acts under the NTNER Act to which the non-extinguishment principle applies are set out in s 51 (1) of the NTNER Act.