Sentences with phrase «of standards of conduct»

In her home country of Ghana in west Africa, there isn't even an official housing policy, let alone any kind of standards of conduct or license requirements for real estate professionals.

Violations of standards of conduct can produce ramifications that end careers, compromise quality of care and even risk patients» lives.

The accounts of expulsions or discipline, the colleges say, are few in number; in at least one instance, the basis for the dismissal is in dispute; and the colleges have policies for giving students notice of their standards of conduct and for ensuring fair treatment.

When the company announced Potdevin's departure, it said it «expects all employees to exemplify the highest levels of integrity and respect for one another, and Mr. Potdevin fell short of these standards of conduct.»

Lululemon has been without a CEO since early February when Laurent Potdevin suddenly stepped down from the post after the company said he «fell short» of its standards of conduct.

While we are unaware of any type of inappropriate behavior involving him and anyone affiliated with the show, we will swiftly address any alleged violations of our standards of conduct.»

Whether to propose a Commission interpretation of the standard of conduct for investment advisors.

Not exact matches

More than half of those surveyed say that Jones, a former federal prosecutor, has higher standards of personal moral conduct than Moore, who is facing multiple allegations that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward teenage girls while he was in his 30s.

I have seen several entrepreneurs who completely disregard this «rule» and instead live according to a higher standard of personal conduct.

According to the settlement, the investment firm, which is the manager of the Dynamic family of mutual funds, failed to meet the minimum standards of conduct from November 2012 to October 2017.

When university - based researchers conduct any kind of research on human beings, they are required to adhere to pretty strict standards for research ethics.

In the case of malaria — which hits hardest in Africa — clinical trials must be conducted in countries with significantly constrained public health resources while meeting the universally high quality standards that clinical trials require.

«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Currently, registered investment advisors regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or state securities regulators are already held to a fiduciary standard of conduct under which they must act in their clients» best interests.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

A ballooning sexual harassment scandal in Westminster claimed its first victim late Monday as Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon, saying his conduct had fallen below the high standards demanded of his position.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

The authors of the Army College study also «state that since non-compliance is not a viable option, leaders must choose which tasks to conduct to standard and which tasks to just «report» that they were done to standard,» Metz wrote.

They would also have to give the bureau information on any claims filed and awards issued in their arbitrations, as well as correspondence from their arbitrators regarding unpaid fees and failure to follow standards of conduct.

A study co-authored by Morin, based on a survey conducted in the winter of 2010 — 11, concluded that 23 % of working - age Canadians are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living in retirement.

«There's a lot of questions to be answered to make sure our law enforcement officers are abiding by the highest standards and rules as they conduct their investigations.»

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

The U.S. Senate has a responsibility to be an example for the rest of the country by setting the highest standards of conduct.

Indeed, the CNBC Millionaire Survey, which was conducted by market research firm Spectrem Group, found 19 percent of high - net - worth respondents wish to leave enough for their kids to be comfortable and maintain their standard of living, but not all they have, while 17 percent indicated they will be «very cautious» in how much they leave, because they want their children to learn self - reliance.

«The comments by Hope Solo after the match against Sweden during the 2016 Olympics were unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our national team players,» Gulati said in a press release.

Citing its small in - country footprint, a Gildan spokesperson said via e-mail, «Given that we own and operate our manufacturing facility in Bangladesh, which represents a very small portion of our total production capacity, we can directly implement our strict internal code of conduct and international labour standards.

U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said the comments Solo made after Sweden beat the U.S. at the Rio Olympics were «unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our National Team players.»

We discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss with audit committees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit Committees).

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).

As opposed to a full delay of all conditions until January 1, 2018, this final rule's application of the Impartial Conduct Standards beginning on June 9, 2017, helps ensure that retirement investors will experience gains from a higher conduct standard and minimizes the potential for an undue reduction in those gains as compared to the full protections of all the PTEs» conditions.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).

The organization said the men did not meet its standards of conduct, and added that it requires its members to «uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity.»

The DOL considers prudence one of the «chief components» of an impartial conduct fiduciary standard, and our legal experts tell us that includes a prudent process to evaluate products and make recommendations.

As of June 9, 2017, all recommendations involving qualified money must follow the impartial conduct standards.

From allegations of sexual harassment against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to the court case against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi stemming from complaints of abusive behaviour both inside and outside the workplace, recent high - profile cases of harassment and violence have made it clear that many organizations struggle to uphold appropriate standards of conduct within their ranks.

The Tupolev Tu - 154 was in the area conducting a standard scheduled overflight as part of the Treaty on Open Skies, of which both the United States and Russia are parties.

Industry officials debated the merits of the SEC's new standard of conduct proposal at an Fi360 event.

However, the SEC's proposal contains an even more fundamental flaw: Even if brokers were held to a fiduciary standard of conduct, the ambiguous interpretation of the fiduciary «Duty of Care» makes any regulation difficult to enforce and confusing for all parties.

30 percent of respondents reported their compensation or bonus plan created pressure to compromise ethical standards or violate the law, while 23 percent of respondents reported other pressures that may lead to unethical or illegal conduct; and

The assessments can be included as part of a standard home inspection or conducted as a separate assessment.

Joining as a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) in 2008, the Group Integrated the latest BSCI Code of Conduct into local trading contracts and conduct regular compliance assessments to ensure ethical business standards are in place.

Recognizing the threat of predatory pricing executed by Standard Oil, Congress passed a series of laws prohibiting such conduct.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

Second, DOL «then offers an exemption from this far - reaching prohibition — known as the best interest contract exemption (or «BIC» exemption)-- but conditions it on financial services firms and insurance institutions agreeing to subject themselves to fiduciary standards of conduct in contracts that they must enter into with their customers, as well as a range of other restrictions and requirements.»

AAP considers the standards of conduct of our independent channel - and the supervision of that conduct - an important tactic to ending the war.

With the rescue attempt's failure, all eyes now turn to the SEC which is considering its own proposal for raising financial advisor standards of conduct.

This is also a critical moment for those who desire a true profession for investment and financial advisors, bound together under a bona fide fiduciary standard of conduct.

Board members determined that the actions of Cosby and Polanski were not in accordance with the Academy's standards of conduct.

We will only accomplish this goal by ensuring that we (the employees and contractors at Coinbase) all hold ourselves to a high standard of conduct.

Broker - dealer Scottrade has been charged with violating the impartial conduct standards of the DOL fiduciary rule.