Sentences with phrase «position of public trust»

«We can't have people in positions of authority and in positions of public trust that are convicted felons,» Singas said in an interview Thursday.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

But an editorship at First Things is not a seat on a Wall Street trading floor, or a teaching gig at a conservatory of music; it is a position of public trust, and I owed the....

Once again — there is no real factual controversy here, simply two legal questions for the judge to answer: did Duffy's taking of the money constitute an act «in connection with the duties of his office» and, if so, was it sufficiently serious (or, to use the Court's words, did it «represent a «marked» departure from the standards expected of an individual in the accused's position of public trust») to warrant the imposition of the criminal sanction.