Sentences with phrase «on ethical grounds»

The strange situation has also been criticized on ethical grounds.

As a result, Norway excluded Hanwah from its $ 380 billion pension fund on ethical grounds.

Cons: Some judges or jurors are against taxidermy on ethical grounds, which could unfairly prejudice them against your lawyer or your case.

The Supreme Court also held that physicians who oppose the decision on ethical grounds can not be compelled to assist in a patient's death.

This I feel alone is grounds for the «Fury» paper to be withdrawn on ethical grounds lone (tainted, by the authors behaviour on his private blog) and all named individual data collected for this research to be made known to (I have provided detail directly to the authors on their blogs (and to the journal already, but I will collate — referenced to this complaint, to follow as background material to my complaint.)

The former can be criticized on ethical grounds whereas the latter borders on overt deceit since it is intentionally hidden.

[i] Also, many cost - benefit analyses use high discount rates to estimate the future costs of climate change, which is questionable both on ethical grounds and because it assumes economic growth can continue indefinitely.

If it is harder to move people on ethical grounds than it is to provide a sustainable humane substitute, I'm all for the substitute.»

Wearing's plan to cultivate a bunch of skid - row types over a period of years, give them the run of her studio, and film the proceedings — sounds like a recipe for disaster, not only for practical and aesthetic reasons but on ethical grounds as well.

Hassan wants ESRB to review its stance on loot boxes on ethical grounds and if nothing else, make sure that any games using them are clearly marked.

From what I understand, vets are obliged under law to perform certain sugeries... but many are opposed to them on ethical grounds, and try their best to educate the client.

I'm originally from India, preferring simple joys of life, very much in to literature, philosophy and spirituality, a vegetarian on ethical grounds.

Using the gene editing technology (CRISPR / Cas9) in human embryos is unacceptable in the UK ethical framework, and I notice that in the Nature report, this paper was suggested to be rejected by journals potentially on ethical grounds.

On ethical grounds, we believe that the information that is an inherent property of genes should be available to all, not controlled by commercial entities.

She said it follows that the reverse is true for women who want girls, but on ethical grounds would not advise women to risk their health by skipping breakfast.

The announcement comes after an agency working group recommends against an industry partnership on ethical grounds.

Essentially, their misgivings are two-fold: they suspect potential campaign finance violations and they disagree with certain fundraising practices on ethical grounds.

This provision is entirely sensible since the use of expanding ammunition is mandated (on ethical grounds) for hunting deer in all UK jurisdictions.

Under the new plan, the government will have the power to veto investment decisions made locally on ethical grounds concerning human rights, arms trade, fossil fuels and much else.

These studies were prospective and minimized selection bias (randomized controlled trials on this topic are not practical on ethical grounds).

But Nestlé has no shame — the following year, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Breakthrough Breast Cancer had refused a # 1 million donation from Nestlé on ethical grounds, Nestlé sent a letter to the newspaper dismissing criticism of its baby food marketing and claimed it was a force for good in the world, citing the donation made to Ethiopia — of course, it did not mention that that the donation came about not because of Nestlé altruism, but because of campaign protest.

Increasing breastfeeding rates is certainly a noble motivation, but the tactics that have been adopted can be called into question, both on ethical grounds, and on performance grounds.

Despite Hertzberg's attempted defense of Israel on ethical grounds, his real argument for Israel is «the continuity of community.»

I suggest that Christians can repudiate anti-Semitism by (1) supporting Zionism on theological grounds and (2) criticizing it on ethical grounds.

Another shareholder wrote in about Coke, noted that you declined to invest in the cigarette business on ethical grounds despite one saying, «It was a perfect business because it costs a penny to make, sell it for a dollar, it's addictive, and there's fantastic brand loyalty».

Certainly not on ethical grounds, because per hypothesis if something is currently legal is must be ethically OK.

Not exact matches

Only when the pro-life movement appeared to be succeeding did the pro-choice movement become energized and outspoken in defending the right to an abortion on political grounds, although even now it tends to avoid discussing the ethical dilemma underlying abortion.

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

Ours is a time of «ethical theology,» rather than ethics as an implication trailing at some distance after a presentation of beliefs established on other grounds.

We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.

On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

Referencing the ethical witness of his daughters, the President made his argument on biblical grounds, specifically the «golden rule,» the idea that we should «treat others the way you'd want to be treated,» as he paraphrased Matthew 7:12.

The policy statement's case does not rest on socioeconomic grounds alone, insisting that energy issues involve ethical choices and therefore concern us not only as citizens but also as Christians.

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

In the context of limited health budgets, on epidemiological and ethical grounds treatment approaches are in most situations a less rational public health investment than approaches that prevent SAM and other types of malnutrition.

Mr Cameron said he objected to the use of waterboarding - interpreted as torture by the UK government - on both ethical and practical grounds.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

Whether dating Spitzer would in fact impact Smith's performance as a de Blasio communicator — and whether it is ethical to make employment decision on those grounds — is up for debate.

Education researchers believe in a set of mutually reinforcing ideas that provides what for them is an overwhelming rationale for rejecting experiments on any number of philosophical, practical, or ethical grounds.

Student protesters and President Bachelet made the case for gratuidad partly on philosophical and ethical grounds — that higher education should be free because it is a right.

Teachers voted unanimously to «refuse to administer the Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP, test on ethical and professional grounds.»

All three panelists decry the practice on both ethical and practical grounds, passionately arguing that legal ghost blogging is a material misrepresentation in advertising and damages the attorney - client relationship by undermining the natural trust that a good blog can establish between a lawyer and their readers.

But the atrocities against these couples on ethical and religious grounds were very high.

As a result of his having won their support, he was appointed in 1988 for a seven year term, which was renewed in 1995 and 2002, and then this year [2008] determined by them to be a permanent post because of changes in employment law — an interpretation questioned on both legal and ethical grounds by lawyer and Stuckist artist, Leo Goatley, who has written to the Culture Minister to express his concerns.

Canada's oil sands (and the Keystone Pipeline that will bring their petroleum to the United States) must be evaluated on environmental and ethical grounds that compare them to real world alternatives to them — not to some utopian energy resource that exists only in the minds of idealists, ideologues and special interest environmental pressure groups.

Or the bureaucrat who is required to implement policies that they might be quite strongly opposed to on moral and ethical grounds and would personally eschew.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

But it would be a powerful demonstration that governments can ban new climate - damaging projects and refuse to make new fosil fuel export agreements on climate - ethical grounds.

If I wrote to my old college urging divestment on financial as well as ethical grounds, I would not be trying to mislead the bursar.