Sentences with phrase «ethical grounds as»

Wearing's plan to cultivate a bunch of skid - row types over a period of years, give them the run of her studio, and film the proceedings — sounds like a recipe for disaster, not only for practical and aesthetic reasons but on ethical grounds as well.

Not exact matches

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

Ours is a time of «ethical theology,» rather than ethics as an implication trailing at some distance after a presentation of beliefs established on other grounds.

We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.

While not denying the systematic possibility of a «naturalized» Whiteheadian metaphysics, Hall argues that Whitehead grounds rational religion in distinctive aspects of experience which can not be reduced to ethical modalities, as Sherburne suggests, without greatly impoverishing «the sources of thought, action and feeling to which civilized men refer for self - understanding.»

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

Referencing the ethical witness of his daughters, the President made his argument on biblical grounds, specifically the «golden rule,» the idea that we should «treat others the way you'd want to be treated,» as he paraphrased Matthew 7:12.

The policy statement's case does not rest on socioeconomic grounds alone, insisting that energy issues involve ethical choices and therefore concern us not only as citizens but also as Christians.

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

Mr Cameron said he objected to the use of waterboarding - interpreted as torture by the UK government - on both ethical and practical grounds.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

Whether dating Spitzer would in fact impact Smith's performance as a de Blasio communicator — and whether it is ethical to make employment decision on those grounds — is up for debate.

He defended his actions and refused to acknowledge that the prosecutors raised serious ethical questions about his activities, even as they said they did not have the legal grounds to accuse anyone of a crime.

As the star sign of the steadfast Bull, sensual Taurus grounds us in what is ethical and sensible.

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.&raquAs we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.&raquas when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

If I wrote to my old college urging divestment on financial as well as ethical grounds, I would not be trying to mislead the bursar.

This I feel alone is grounds for the «Fury» paper to be withdrawn on ethical grounds lone (tainted, by the authors behaviour on his private blog) and all named individual data collected for this research to be made known to (I have provided detail directly to the authors on their blogs (and to the journal already, but I will collate — referenced to this complaint, to follow as background material to my complaint.)

Like you, I believe that there are strategies the LSUC could pursue which would achieve their substantive goals, strategies which accurately reflect existing (and unambiguous) legal and ethical obligations and which are consistent with constitutional requirements and principles (as I've noted above, if the current requirement around a Statement of Principle merely required acknowledgement of our actual existing obligations under the Rules, rather than a general duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion which is found nowhere in the Rules, I suspect much opposition would melt away and the LSUC would be on far stronger Charter grounds).

Even as I questioned whether Shpoonkle could survive as a business, others condemned it more harshly on ethical and professionalism grounds.

But I can not say that a professor who disagrees with me, who in her instruction grounds a lawyer's ethical duties in moral obligation, or who views the lawyer's decisions as properly informed by the values and norms of her community, including her religious community, fails to instruct her students in legal ethics.

As a result, Norway excluded Hanwah from its $ 380 billion pension fund on ethical grounds.

In the event that states adopt a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons systems — where talks have been underway since 2014 and another round is due in April — the report states that «it will be natural for autonomous weapons to be added to the list of weapon types that provide grounds for the exclusion of companies under the Fund's ethical guidelines, in the same way as it has done» before.