Sentences with phrase «ethics law in»

Cuomo in 2010 campaigned, in part, on overhauling ethics laws in Albany.

«He fought to uphold the law and bring justice to those who break it as a former federal prosecutor, and he's continued that commitment by fighting for stronger ethics laws in the state legislature.

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

Like clockwork, lawmakers in the minority parties in both houses quickly called on Assembly Democrats and Senate Republicans to embrace more - stringent ethics laws in New York.

«He fought to uphold the law and bring justice to those who break it as a former federal prosecutor, and he's continued that commitment by fighting for stronger ethics laws in the state legislature,» Cuomo said.

But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics laws in the wake of a series of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal business he was practicing on the side.

Not exact matches

«The Philippines has found a way to pay tribute to our president,» said Kathleen Clark, a government ethics lawyer and law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

«Blending historical evidence with interviews of an amazing array of individuals, [Singer] shows how technology is changing not just in how wars are fought, but also in the politics, economics, laws, and the ethics that surround war itself.»

He also is a professor at the San Diego State University College of Business Administration where he teaches classes in business ethics and employment law.

The documents CREW cites are the same documents that were examined by Treasury's Inspector General in his review of Treasury's travel, in which he identified no violation of law, regulation, or ethics requirements,» Sayegh said.

«They are barred from investing in offerings like Carlyle's as a matter of both law and ethics.»

Deborah Rhode, a Stanford law professor and leading scholar on legal ethics, argues in her book, Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice (2005), that lawyers bear an ethical duty to ameliorate «their monopoly's deleterious effects» by doing more pro bono work for those who are disenfranchised.

It's not — from the people who serve in this Parliament, it's not enough to simply follow the rules or follow the ethics code or even follow the law because we have a government right now that has broken repeatedly all three of those.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump's daughter and son - in - law, will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business still worth as much as $ 740 million, despite their new government responsibilities, according to ethics filings released by the White House Friday night.

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during claLaw School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during clalaw and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers do not.

He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.

Disclosure is consistent with public policy, in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders, and critical for compliance with federal ethics laws.

Dr. Leblanc is an expert in law, governance, and ethics, and is listed under York University's Experts Guide.

«It's the funders that create the problem,» says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics.

Top White House strategist Kellyanne Conway on Thursday wouldn't say whether President Trump will discipline her after a watchdog group said she violated federal ethics law by endorsing a Republican candidate in an Alabama Senate race.

The boardroom trends that are «hot» right now, says Richard Leblanc, associate professor in law, governance and ethics at York University, are those that are examining «over-boarded [and] over-tenured directors,» as well as tackling board diversity and experience.

And the independent Congressional Research Service found that under federal ethics law, Dick Cheney did have a lingering financial interest in Halliburton.»

While employees are expected to comply with all laws, rules, regulations and government requirements in jurisdictions in which the Company does business, the general laws and ethics of Canada will govern.

It is worth noting that Judge Miner's inability to parse that distinction was not shared by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a twenty - four member commission appointed by Governor Cuomo in 1985 to advise on questions of biomedical ethics.

Because of the tendency in Luther and the reformers to distinguish between grace and law» understandable relative to late - medieval scholasticism» Protestants ever since have erected a false dichotomy between grace and law that has had debilitating effects in theology, ethics, and public policy.

The takeover phenomenon and the savings and loan affair were only the most notorious in a series of developments that have drawn elite law firms out of the trader mode and away from «gentlemen's» ethics.

For those concerned that men, women, children, and their future happiness are being seriously wounded in all this — and that grave damage is being done to medical ethics and law — a good place to begin examining the whole «T» phenomenon is Ryan T. Anderson's recently published study, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.

There are lots of rules in life, the law of the land, doctor's orders, guidelines laid down by management at work, professional ethics, etc..

Would not a legal, philosophically balanced set of ethical instructions, as with Roman Catholic canon law, put some rational limits on what can be expected from us in light of Jesus» wildly radical cross-bearing ethics?

The law is thus being interpreted and applied in line with the canons of political and cultural discourse that have emerged over the last fifty years, where oppression is increasingly a psychological category and ethics is increasingly aesthetics, a matter of taste.

Who needs ~ a «work» day to fall BETWEEN the High Day Sabbath... and the WEEKLY Sabbath ~ if the proper DUTIES of the ~ High Day Sabbath ~ pertained precisely the ~» work» ~ of the particular ~ High Day Sabbath ~ «according to the customary ethics of the Jews» — THE LAW — DEMANDED such ~» work» ~ shall be done by the faithful, «good and just» «disciple» and «honourable counsellor» of the LAW — such as Joseph and Nicodemus who «themselves», have «waited for the Kingdom of God» and these, very «three days» in its messianic «GLORY»?

The «moral majority» and ethics in our society deems it «not o.k.» and therefore turns votes into laws that make said practices illegal.

The Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey (where I work) is now accepting applications for six summer seminars, on topics ranging across ethics, politics, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion, for every age cohort from high school to post-baccalaureate students.

In the first century, some of the most advanced of Jewish teachers, faced with the growing complexity of the system of ethics contained in the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hanIn the first century, some of the most advanced of Jewish teachers, faced with the growing complexity of the system of ethics contained in the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hanin the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hang.

Thus the Pharisees, despite their highly developed ethical self - consciousness, and despite the fact that their rabbis were able to point to love of God and man as the sum of the law, remained bound to prerational requirements in the name of ethics.

Lovelace evaluates the current theological direction, concluding that one can detect in the growing acceptance of homosexuality a «false religion» (its antipathy toward Biblical revelation is a sign), a «cheap grace» (repentance is ignored), a «powerless grace» (the possibility of cure is denied), and an «antinomian ethic» (the balance between Law and gospel is undercut).

They based our laws on ethics, which have their foundations in logic and the greater good, and not morals, which are religiously prescribed rules.

In one aspect they are addressed to all and sundry, laying down the lines of an absolute ethic determined by the coming of the kingdom of God; but insofar as individuals accept them as such, and commit themselves, the new Israel is being formed, and the ethical teaching of Jesus becomes the new law by which it is to be governed.

The prevailing attitude in corner offices seems to be «grab all the money you can while you can, and don't worry about little things like ethics, morals or the law.»

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

Atlanta (CNN)- A top - tier rabbi and expert in Jewish law and ethics is now under the microscope for what many see as his own ethical transgressions.

That system, as it were, came to be referred to as natural law, in order to distinguish it from the pattern of ethics discernible in the Bible.

When one realizes how different Hartshorne's ethics is from that found in deontology as usually conceived, and when one notices his numerous and repeated criticisms of utilitarianism, 10 one is then in a position to see how he culls insights from both of these in the effort to develop his own virtue ethics centered around the law of moderation.

They are wallowing in wealth and power and it is clear from many of their comments that they not only consider themselves above all laws and «outside» ethics, they consider themselves superior in every way.

That is, the law of moderation is operative not only in Hartshorne's ethics but also in his metaphysics.

The genius of Catholicism has been displayed in its achievement of uniting the moral teaching of the Bible with the rationalistic tradition of Aristotelian ethics, Stoicism, and the tradition of natural law, and in its continuing capacity to adjust and refine its moral tradition in the light of new situations.

Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else - and that is broadly the case in our public mindset - then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded.

What he is trying to do is to predicate intent verbally (definitional), but in law and in ethics (or philosophy) a man who is not insane is presumed to intend the natural consequences of their acts (the act infers the intent).

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.