Sentences with phrase «measured against these principles»

Every decision we make — from client matters to recruiting philosophy to strategic positioning — is tested and measured against these principles.

Not exact matches

We report annually on our CR program and initiatives, including our progress against the United Nations Global Compact principles and our measures to prevent modern slavery.

In contrast to the incommensurabilist aversion to the comparison of chafing values, of more compelling concern is how clearly we can measure particularly incompatible belief structures up against one another to reveal a reverse ordering of principles.

Republicanism can help us find this, by providing a clear and simple guiding principle against which we can measure any new proposal.

Compelled to confront legislation that pitted principle against pragmatism, the rookie Republican lawmaker endorsed a doomed, combustible measure — the first gay rights bill to reach the floor of either the House or Senate.

Heastie characterized some member's opposition as a «core principle» for some Democrats, and he says he won't ask them to go against their core beliefs to vote for any measure.

I was left no choice but to vote against this measure, and I stand by my vote both on principle and practicality.

The seventh principle of the Data Protection Act stipulates that an organisation must take appropriate measures against accidental loss, destruction or damage to personal data and against unlawful processing of the data.

«It goes against the principles of good teaching in early years, and at the same time does not assess accurately enough to form the basis of a school performance measure.»

This idea came to be known as school accountability, and it was built around three principles: Creating rigorous academic standards, measuring student progress against those standards, and attaching some consequence to the results.

We have measured these practices against standards derived from the Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems, a 1995 publication by a coalition of education and civil rights groups working together through the National Forum on Assessment.

But, though I may dislike some of the measures concerned as much as they do and might vote against them, I know of no general principles to which I could appeal to persuade those of a different view that those measures are not permissible in the general kind of society which we both desire.

Patrick Michaels helped The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition develop a set of «five guiding scientific principles» aimed at «offering federal and state government a yardstick against which to measure science in public policy.»

The European Union's addiction to the precautionary principle — which says in effect that the risks of new technologies must be measured against perfection, not against the risks of existing technologies — has caused many perverse policy decisions.

LEED for Homes Awards - or - How To Shoot Yourself in the Foot measures award - winning homes against the foundation principles of the Original Green.

(It is noteworthy that today there are those arguing against the reality of this phenomenon from first principles of physics — without acknowledging that it has repeatedly been measured.)

Neighborhood Watch says measures to better guard against invaders could be funded by the «polluter pays» principle.

It then proceeded to applied this principle to case before it: «[20] It follows from the foregoing that a body, whatever its legal form, which has been made responsible, pursuant to a measure adopted by the State, for providing a public service under the control of the State and has for that purpose special powers beyond those which result from the normal rules applicable in relations between individuals is included in any event among the bodies against which the provisions of a directive capable of having direct effect may be relied upon.»

Of obvious relevance in the present case is the seventh principle, requiring that data controllers must take «appropriate technical and organisational measures» to guard against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data, or accidental loss.

For a rule or principle to constitute a principle of fundamental justice for the purposes of s. 7, it must be a legal principle about which there is significant societal consensus that it is fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate, and it must be identified with sufficient precision to yield a manageable standard against which to measure deprivations of life, liberty or security of the person.

Rosen, founder of Rosen & Company Barristers, tells AdvocateDaily.com that the judges, in their decision, «reinforced the principle that the use of force by police officers will be measured against reasonableness, the same as for anyone else.»

While, as we have noted, the CMD 2 proposals contain some measures to mitigate market power on an ex ante basis the MSA will have additional jurisdiction both to monitor the AESO's efforts to limit the exercise of market power as well as ex post authority to sanction behaviour in the capacity market that fails to live up to the FEOC principle, much as it can in the energy market: see Market Surveillance Administrator allegations against TransAlta Corporation et al., Mr. Nathan Kaiser and Mr. Scott Connelly, AUC Decision, 3110 - D01 - 2015 and see also a recent case management decision dealing with a class proceeding relating to this matter Carlson v Transalta Corporation, 2018 ABQB 343 (CanLII).

At 44, she argues that it is not clear to what extent that injunction might be contrary to basic principles of Latvian substantive law or procedural law, especially since, as the referring court acknowledges, the Latvian legal order does permit judgments as provisional measures without a prior hearing of the party against whom enforcement is sought.

Furthermore, I have had the opportunity to learn to manage stressful situations that work against the principles of law and order and the way to perform preventive measures to ward off crime.

The NIC Principles are of concern when measured against international human rights standards and strategies for economic and social development.

It can be seen from an examination of the application of this test to the amendments to the NTA that the criteria against which legitimacy is measured are not human rights principles but political considerations.

A number of general principles are embodied in this proposal, with negative consequences for housing and real estate measured against present policy.