Sentences with phrase «ethics law which»

All of its members had been appointed by Gallo under a 2013 ethics law which gives the mayor sole authority to appoint and dismiss members.

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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.

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.

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 hang.

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.

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.

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.

Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?

It can not be too strongly stressed, in contrast to a secular moralism which finds its base in social adjustment, or a balancing of human values, or a natural law of morality, that the center of New Testament ethics lies in the love requirement which in turn stems from the free gift of God's love to the undeserving.

But how can such a thesis be reconciled with the reservations cited by Novak, the totality of which seem to preclude any marriage, arranged or otherwise, between Jewish ethics and natural law?

The wider context is the very meager basis upon which laws relating to sexual ethics are now built.

Having surveyed thus briefly the nature of Old Testament law, and particularly those portions of the law having to do with ethics and morality, we may now ask: What appear to be the central theological presuppositions of the law in its dominant emphases and in the form in which it finally entered the canon?

The kind of ethic promoted here by Paul is one which stresses liberation from the law — from those rules which prevent the maintenance of a loving community and for a freedom which accommodates differences between a people called to share in faith and life.

I am as concerned with the great pool of public sentiment out of which the laws arise and are applied — the «ethos» of the people that is the subject of «ethics» — as I am with the legal issues.

Christian ethics must make this distinction, else we not only shall lose the Ten Commandments from Christianity but will be obliged to ascribe to Paul a disregard of the moral law at variance with the moral concern which appears on every page of his letters.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codLaw and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codlaw versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codlaw, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Since this obedience is obedience to a purely formal authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.

Professor E. F. Scott, however, passes a not unfair judgment on James: «Conceiving of the new message as a «law,» and not as a power which creates a new life, he misses what is deepest, both in the Christian religion and the Christian ethic.»

My thesis is that the many visions of perfection are more or less the same or at least analogical, and therefore if each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue at depth on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

If each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

Ingrained in Ruether's argument are solutions to two problems which have long plagued not only ecological ethics but feminist thought and Roman Catholic natural law ethics.

Together these philosophers have supplied a new interpretation of Aristotle's ethics and the Thomist natural law tradition which has allowed Robert P. George and like - minded writers to make a fruitful (in some aspects) and definitely noticeable moral critique of American politics and culture.

Since these prohibitions are found in the ritual law and are apparently equal in severity with prohibitions against drinking the blood of an animal or having intercourse with a menstruating woman, or having an ox which gores one's neighbor, their pertinence for theological ethics is generally disputed.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

Under a newly passed ethics reform law — which Ambrosino, King Sweeney and Blakeman voted against — Ambrosino would be barred from working for the town or running for re-election if he is convicted of the felony charges.

In 2011, Cuomo made the first of what would be several attempts to reform the state's ethics laws, ultimately brokering the agreement that would create JCOPE and a little noticed database called Project Sunlight, which allows users to view the details of meetings outside entities have with state officials from every agency in the state.

She then said «he» would determine where else it might be released, but she didn't specify if she was referring to the U.S. attorney or Schwartz before hastily ending the news conference in which Cuomo announced his proposals for ethics laws.

«Laws with too many loopholes and which do not solve Albany's mounting ethics problem.

The state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which polices violations of state ethics law, is effectively controlled by Cuomo's office.

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

Ironically, Albany's ethics watchdog, JCOPE, which critics say is too close to the governor — if not controlled outright by him — is reportedly investigating allegations that Libous used his political clout to secure a job as a politically - connected Hudson Valley law firm for his son.

The governor has maintained that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,» he said in 2015 — and that it was entirely within his purview to shut it down.

that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,»

Cuomo has said, repeatedly and vociferously, that he discontinued the commission purely because it had satisfied its mission, which was to pressure the legislature into passing tougher ethics laws.

Q: Governor, why didn't your ethics plan close the LLC loophole, which allows LLCs to be treated as individuals under the law?

That commission was to spur, to educate the public, to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws — which they did.

Formal advisory opinions are required to be made public, though the 2011 law that created the ethics watchdog panel prevents it from releasing informal advisory opinions, which are issued by JCOPE's staff.

As far back as a student leader in my school days, I was once arrested and charged for inciting students, and here we are, an officer of the law is defiling his code of ethics and Ghana is expected to believe there is nothing wrong with what this gentleman has begun, which is a time - bomb; I WILL PETITION THE IGP, IF NOTHING IS DONE WITHIN THE NEXT 72 HOURS on this gentleman.

Both laws also bar city officials from holding an ownership stake in businesses which have contracts with the city and establish an ethics board to oversee enforcement of the provisions.

But the commission, which includes appointees of Mr. Silver, did not give its staff the authority to investigate whether the Assembly staff had violated ethics laws, a restriction government watchdog groups see as a major shortcoming of the investigation.

She outlined her plan for state ethics reform in a Facebook post, in which she claimed New York State leads the nation in lawmakers in trouble with the law.

The legislature passed nearly all of those recommendations, which included the creation of a more powerful ethics commission, mandatory ethics training, anti-nepotism laws and greater transparency in state contracts.

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which has pushed for a special session this year to enact tougher ethics laws.

«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.

During the speech, Cuomo announced a seven - point «justice agenda,» which would appoint an independent monitor to have access to grand jury information, recruit more minorities into law enforcement, fund body cameras and bulletproof patrol cars in high crime areas and provide race and ethic data on police actions, among other things.

On the first question, a cursory review by Woodstock Times of the local ethics law — and of Article 3 of the state Administrative Procedure Act, which complements and informs the local law — found no provision directing the Ethics Board to omit the specific charge when it notifies individuals that they are the subject of a complaint.

A case involving a member of the Woodstock Town Board has drawn attention to the local ethics law, which seeks to establish standards of conduct for town officers, employees, and consultants, and to procedures followed by the volunteer board that administers and enforces the statute.

«I suggest that the Town Board review the purpose of the ethics law, which is to promote public confidence (in town officials) and the integrity of the agency.

Mr. Cuomo met with Republican senators on Tuesday to discuss his proposal for new ethics laws, particularly a measure requiring legislators who work part time as lawyers to reveal more of their clients, which has prompted concerns among the Republicans.