Sentences with phrase «ethics laws from»

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

Gross also said the ethics board is in a difficult position as an agency that keeps the financial disclosure records open for public inspection, while the board and its staff are barred by the county ethics law from disclosing confidential information.

Not exact matches

The board is made up of eight members from computer science, policing, ethics, privacy and law enforcement backgrounds.

But now, according to The Journal, we learn that Flynn's work involved a meeting on September 19, 2016 with senior Turkish government officials to discuss how to remove a Turkish dissident from the United States without going through judicial or other legal processes — actions that could violate U.S. criminal laws and that certainly raise anew serious questions about Flynn's judgment and ethics.

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

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.

«It is not uncommon after a crisis or scandal to recruit from the outside like CPA Australia has done,» says Richard Leblanc, associate professor of law, governance and ethics at York University.

Recognize how ethics influences consumers» reasons to buy from you, and demonstrate a commitment to go beyond mere compliance with laws and regulations.

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.

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?

A post-Enlightenment public square sounds positively tribal: it would mean Muslims arguing for Shari'a law and Christians arguing from the Bible about sexual ethics.

Jesus condenses the Old Testament prophetic ethic (quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus) when he declares that «all the law and the prophets» depend upon love of God and love of neighbor (Matt.

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.

And the laws that forbid all manner of discrimination seem to emanate from a disinterested public «ethic,» suitably cleansed of any sectarian shading.

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.

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.

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.

This Pauline corrective is a participant in the larger «canonical conversation» between those who, like James, might advocate a definition of Christian freedom by the law, and those who, like Paul, bear witness to the dangers of that ethic and so advocate a freedom from the law.

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.

George's perfectionist theory of civil liberties merits scholarly attention, especially from liberals who too easily dismiss natural law thinking as an outdated approach to politics and ethics.

Once the ethic of law is totally separated from the relation to the transcendent or the futurist vision of perfection, it loses dynamism and becomes static and gets absolutized and made irrelevant to new historical situations.

The will of God is the formal authority of Scripture; ethic is therefore not distinguishable from law.

Once the ethic of law is totally separated from its relation to the transcendent or the futurist vision of perfection, it loses dynamism and becomes static and gets absolutised and made irrelevant to new historical situations.

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.

They see it in the birth control legislation in Massachusetts and Connecticut; they see it in the Catholic pressure to remove welfare agencies that have birth control clinics from local community chests elsewhere; they see it in the Catholic objection to divorce laws that are much more flexible than the law of the Church; they see it in the attempts to have non-Catholic hospitals adopt the Catholic ideas of medical ethics in the field of obstetrics.

From a meta - ethical point of view this suggests the idea that ethics could be based on this command without falling back into narrow legalism, an idea worth further study, not least in the development of natural law theory.

Jesus, among others, condensed the Old Testament prophetic ethic (quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus) when he declared that «all the law and the prophets» depend upon love of God and love of neighbor (Matt.22: 35 - 40; cf. Mark 12:28 - 31).

Democrats were more than happy to seize on McGrath's insistence that he would not step away from his law practice if elected and, at the same time, was dismissive of calls for ethics reforms.

On ethics, Cuomo wasn't able to get at some of the issues that forced, say, Sheldon Silver from power, namely the ability for lawmakers to earn as much money as they'd like at law firms or other entities with potential business before the state.

Another provision would apply much of the ethics provisions from the public officers law to state procurement officials.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

Top issues for state lawmakers to tackle when they return to Albany from their two - week spring break include NYC mayor's control, ethics reform and changes to the election laws.

Stewart - Cousins, a Democrat from Yonkers, confirmed that issues such as voter reform measures and changes to the state's ethics laws had fallen out of the budget talks.

In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.

Democrats have also been resistant to substantive ethics reform efforts in recent years, passing a weak law last year that barely limits who politicians can take money from.

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.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Leaders of the New York state legislature are in court fighting a request from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ethics commission that they turn over details about their private law clients.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

The former enforcers also say proposed ethics laws wouldn't have stopped most of this ooze coming from Albany.

Some lawmakers say the commission lacks jurisdiction on matters that happened before it was created, while others say the ethics law wasn't protect lawmakers from past misdeeds.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

With one good - government leader calling this session Albany's «Watergate moment,» a lawmaker from the Hudson Valley has introduced an ethics reform package trying to create distance between those who seek to influence the law and those who make the laws.

Several senators, including Skelos, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in outside income from private law firms, and if the governor's ethics package is adopted, would have to disclose more details, including names of their clients.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

He grew up in Delaware and attended Amherst College and then Yale Law School as well receiving a master's degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School before going into law practiLaw School as well receiving a master's degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School before going into law practilaw practice.