Sentences with phrase «ethical lapses»

President Bill Clinton dismissed William Sessions amid allegations of ethical lapses in 1993.

A report released yesterday blames British pathologists «profoundly ignorant of the law» for ethical lapses in scores of research projects in which pathologists and coroners obtained and provided tissues to scientists interested in measuring radiation exposures and their impact on the body.

But a class - action lawsuit filed recently in Florida suggests that serious ethical lapses remain a defining part of the industry.

The Guardian and other well - meaning media outlets have also been, for the most part, overly lax in criticizing clear ethical lapses in the right - wing media.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt was grilled on Capitol Hill Thursday after alleged ethical lapses since taking office, but largely deflected blame.

Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy dismissed allegations of ethical lapses against his administration on Monday.

Did board members ever discuss why discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and other ethical lapses were problems for Uber?

How could you think a string of ethical lapses by Senator Latimer would be a smear because he's done it to himself, others are just pointing it out and exposing it.

NEW YORK, NY — «With the conviction this week of two sitting state senators, both who served in leadership positions, there have been 39 state level officials forced from office for arrests, convictions or ethical lapses since 2003.

Several major ethical lapses on Wright's part were revealed, and the leading newspaper in the district, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, endorsed the Libertarian nominee.

ethics of dating 2 women at once In My Humble Opinion (IMHO) I hasten to add that none of these point to any clear ethical lapse or mistake on your part.

The managers at this company simply literally did not have a good sense of where their money was, a situation that easily enabled ethical lapses.

Those were egregious ethical lapses, but they reflect some genuine grievances that PR practitioners have about the way Wikipedia deals with their complaints.

It would be the worst ethical lapse by a single organization since the Black Sox.

«Just days after the Court of Appeals ruled that a special prosecutor was permitted to continue its criminal investigation into the Working Families Party, they are now shamelessly backing a disgraced candidate for state senate who comes with his own ethical lapses,» campaign spokeswoman Heather Sager said in a statement.

Powell insisted his drunk driving arrest was just one night of bad judgment, compared to Rangel's long - standing ethical lapses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Scott Pruitt, the embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief, was in the hot seat last week for a congressional grilling probing ethical lapses and a firehose of questions surrounding personal spending.

«While the Senate Democrats talk about ethics, our members are working with the governor and Assembly to put in place historic reforms that will allow us to turn the page on the serious ethical lapses Democrats were known for when they were in the majority,» Reif said.

Assemblyman Scarborough's arrest was the latest in a series of scandals involving New York State legislators and raised fresh questions about the effectiveness of efforts to combat ethical lapses by lawmakers, even on mundane matters like hotel - room allowances.

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch called the news of Agostini's relationship a «total ethical lapse of this parole board member.»

«Congresswoman Stefanik does not believe Administrator Pruitt answered her concerns about the recent ethical lapses at the EPA under his watch, and she continues to call for new leadership at this agency,» said Tom Flanagin, a spokesman.

And even though Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, was not accused of wrongdoing, the verdict still underscored ethical lapses and illegal activity at a time when Mr. Cuomo is seeking re-election.

According to a report filed by Spitzer and the NYS inspector - general, «favoritism and illegal ethical lapses» were to blame.

Creative people are better at rationalizing small ethical lapses that can spiral out of control

Who will teach the old guard — the established principal investigators (PIs) who are by no means immune from ethical lapses?

The editorial describes some remarkable ethical lapses that, due to bureaucratic constraints, have gone unpunished.

But EMBL has now withdrawn that data and apologized for a perceived ethical lapse as it seeks to allay concerns that it violated the privacy of the woman who was the original source of the cells or that of her descendants.

Studies of decision making have proven that people are more likely to accept ethical lapses when they occur in several small steps than when they occur in one large leap.

Certainly skeptics have criticized their work, but Gleason and Monnett, as Clynes must surely know, came under review by the Obama Administration (certainly not a hotbed for sympathy towards skeptics) mainly for ethical lapses around reporting and use of funds.

But the question that really strikes me is this: If Bandow's relatively minor ethical lapse is a sackable offence, how can Cato continue to harbour Steve Milloy?

To date, no Canadian political party wants to talk about these dramatic ethical lapses.

Breaches of confidentiality can cost you your job, get your name in the wrong place in the blogosphere or Twitterverse, and make you searchable in a bad way on Google, Lexis, and Westlaw under nasty ethical lapse search terms.

The most frequently encountered ethical lapses based upon reports from the GA Composite Board

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

The last two governors also found themselves in ethical trouble - Eliot Spitzer resigned over a prostitution scandal and David Paterson was fined for ethical lapses.

Supervisor Gromack should also recognize that serious ethical lapses have occurred in his administration which have been addressed in numerous Town Board meetings by New City resident Tom Nimick and others.

Some have said I've committed the sin of false equivalence by gauging Gleick's one ethical lapse against the planet - threatening sins of corporate shills and disinformers.

After a humiliating censure by Congress four years ago for failing to pay taxes and other ethical lapses, Representative Charles Rangel has steadily lost power in Washington.

Rachel has the skills and experience to fight the Trump administration's corrosive policies and major ethical lapses.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman tonight offered a sharp critique of Albany's long history of ethical lapses and past claims of reform, and made comprehensive proposals to fundamentally change New York State government by striking at the root causes of corruption.

«Each blog post: (a) identifies cases that address technology mishaps (either through negligence, ethical lapses in judgment, too much reliance on outside counsel and vendors, or fraud); (b) exposes the specific conduct that caused a problem; (c) explains how and why the conduct was improper; and (d) offers suggestions on how to learn from these mistakes and prevent similar ones from reoccurring.»

This can lead, among other things, to ethical lapses.

«In start - up companies, it's all about «who do I trust» and sometimes nepotism will come in,» Fraedrich says, and family - run businesses have to be especially vigilant against an ethical lapse that could lead at best to employee dissatisfaction and at worst to a discrimination suit.

At last week's Environment Subcommittee hearing, a plurality of panel Republicans focused less on Pruitt's alleged ethical lapses than on the policies he has implemented as administrator — many of which Republicans have sought to effect through legislation.

But this is a regulatory, accounting, and ethical lapse.

And it's the policy, more so than his ethical lapses, that really ought to trouble us.

And further, that the party's top officials have been found guilty of a few, uh, ethical lapses — most seriously, former premier Dalton McGuinty's chief of staff David Livingston was recently sentenced to four months in jail for ordering the deletion of pre-election gas plant emails.