Sentences with phrase «behavior than the law»

Taxes are... a far cheaper and less coercive way to curtail [harmful] behavior than laws or prescriptive regulations.

Our Code says we've chosen to abide by a higher level of professional behavior than the law requires.

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Here is another study going the rounds on the web that claims that a law / rules - centered morality rather than a relational morality can blind us to the harm our behavior does to others:

Part of the answer is, already noted, that the laws of nature are ultimately statistical and no more preclude choice on the part of individual components than do statistical laws of human behavior.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

What we are being provided with is a general caricature of this social class which is a statistical fact rather than an inviolable law On the whole the actions of this class exemplify modes of behavior determined by their social environment.

As for the argument that not using corporal punishment will lead to bad behavior, Vieth notes that people who are in jail or kids who are delinquent are likely to have been spanked just as much if not more than kids who are obedient or adults who are not breaking the law.

Meanwhile, Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor challenging Cuomo in the upcoming Democratic primary, told WCBS 880's Paul Murnane that she believes the behavior is worse than the prostitution scandal that cost former Gov. Eliot Spitzer his job — she described that as a «private indiscretion.»

He plays Billy McBride, a man whose alcoholism is even worse than his haircut and his goatee, and who founded one of the most powerful law firms in the world only to be ousted from it because of his bad behavior and a spectacular fallout with his partner, Donald Cooperman (William Hurt).

Students will test the limits of acceptable behavior in myriad ways better known to school teachers than to judges; school officials need a degree of flexible authority to respond to disciplinary challenges; and the law has always considered the relationship between teachers and students special.

HB 674 (Johnson / Garcia)-- TCTA was successful in persuading the bill's author to include the school campus behavior coordinator (in current law due to previous TCTA - initiated legislation), in a school district positive behavior program, and to make annual staff training on the program permissive rather than mandatory.

That would be biased and would infringe upon the rule of law by making the punishment depend on class rather than behavior.

Law enforcement would much rather get a call reporting suspicious behavior only to have it be non-criminal behavior than to not get the call at all and potentially miss catching a criminal,» says Russell.

This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity.

«HB 97 is great for Utah because it finally means that dangerous dog laws can focus on behavior — both of the owner and the dog — rather than breed or appearance.

Laws that focus on the behavior of the dog, rather than the breed of dog, will protect the public far more effectively without penalizing pets that don't represent a threat.

The utility argued that public power companies are shielded from antitrust laws, rather than defending the merits of their discriminatory behavior in court.

As Kant goes on and on and on (he is an awfully thick writer) he refines morality until he comes to the first type of imperative «I am never to act otherwise than to will that my maxim should become universal law,» anything before this is merely a stepping stone on the way to get to here, where he can define moral behavior..

The distributions are often broader than Gaussian, for example with power laws, so that large and catastrophic, but rare, events can dominate behavior.

Most cyclists have a pretty keen sense of self preservation, and while the occasional scofflaw may still exist under the new law Police resources will be freed up to focus on those few rather than on the majority of cyclists whose behavior is safe.

At FindLaw, we have more data about legal consumer behavior than anyone, and your law firm benefits from that as part of your partnership.

At its core, the less than exemplary behavior described above is encouraged by the structure of most law firms — one that emphasizes the interests of the individual over those of the group.

It is also important to know what kind of law firm culture existing, including traditions, social behaviors of the members of the firm, whether the firm tends to be more conservative or innovative, and the basic demographics of the law firm that might create more than one law firm identity within the larger firm culture.

«Information, Laws and common rules of behavior were well displayed for any person with an average or less than average reading comprehension level.

For several decades, research has suggested that attitudes and laws favoring gender equity have changed more quickly than people's actual behavior in intimate relationships.