Sentences with phrase «ethical reform in»

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[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

Reform Judaism (known in Europe as Liberal Judaism) seeks to preserve the basic moral precepts of the Torah and other ethical aspects of Jewish tradition — including a passionate concern for social justice.

The ethical task of our generation may well be to engage in the formation of a cosmopolitan civilization on a more genuinely reformed and genuinely catholic basis.

• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the Commission on Assisted Dying's call to reform the law to allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults as set out in its report, which is considered, detailed and recommends a change in the law for practical, ethical and legal reasons.

Over the past four years we were extraordinarily aggressive on ethical reform and there is no doubt our current system is the most restrictive and most regulated in our history.

The remarks came after Wilson listed a broad three - point plan for righting the state that includes restructuring government; focusing on workforce development in a region - by - region, industry - specific way; and reforming Albany's lax ethical standards.

Jindal's brand new in Louisiana and came in riding the ethical reform horse when the press shellacked him for wanting to pay his Economic Development Secretary $ 320K and his deputy $ 280K.

«We have been very aggressive in the area of ethical reforms but we still need to do more.

This year — which follows a two - decade stretch that has seen dozens of elected officials leave office due to ethical or legal scandal — there appears to be a marked shift and legislative leaders are finding themselves at odds with government reform organizations who view the convention more favorably, even those who sat out the vote in 1997.

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.

«Micah has enormous talent, a big heart and a strong ethical compass, and he will be an unwavering voice for reform in the Legislature — a voice that is so badly needed at this moment.»

As someone who was elected five times to the New York State Senate and witnessed many of these ethical problems in Albany, I know that no recent governor has gone this far to achieve meaningful reforms.

«Our state is in dire need of ethical and political reform and this can not be accomplished with the Senate's majority leader facing the charges contained in this lawsuit.»

While the punishment bestowed upon each may warn current lawmakers to toe ethical lines, progress on concrete reforms aimed at curbing the type of behavior that landed William Boyland Jr. and William Scarborough in prison has been slow to materialize.

And his diagnosis was correct: the key to real reform — and success in ending Albany's ethical weaknesses — was, and is, the establishment of an independent ethics enforcement agency that would enforce New York law without fear or favor.

This article discusses the failure of lawmakers to implement ethical reforms that would prevent bid - rigging scandals in economic development contracts.

It's also a worthwhile exercise to measure various proposed ethical reforms with what we've just seen transpire in two trials.

A practicing internist, his current research focuses on ethical issues in health reform (focusing on accountable care organizations, ACOs).

In response to a Harvard Graduate School of Education report centered around reforming the college admissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achievements.

When animal lovers learn about the cruelty and killing that are rampant in U.S. shelters, and that national animal protection organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) defend these shelters and thwart efforts at reform, the first and the most logical question they ask is: Why?

This report proposes major institutional reform to establish animal welfare as a goal of Government policy in order to give it ethical and democratic legitimacy.

Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the rule of law, participatory democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.

«A forum for discussion of important, current issues in criminal law and procedure, a place to announce upcoming programs, cases, legislative initiatives, and policy changes, as well as a vehicle for encouraging creative law reform to promote a fair and ethical criminal process.

A 2014 report released by ILR found that TPLF is intertwined with Australia's class action system and certain reforms to class action procedures and rules could restrain the use of TPLF in class actions and reduce conflicts of interest and ethical concerns.

The Lord Chief Justice perceives reform to the costs regime to be one of the principal means of ensuring that private prosecutors tread carefully and in compliance with their professional ethical obligations.