Sentences with phrase «real conflicts of»

Santoro's job within the general counsel's office includes investigating alleged violations of ethical conduct, including perceived or real conflicts of interest.

The governor has contended the state has a thorough process to make sure there are no perceived or real conflicts of interests regarding campaign contributions and the awarding of contracts.

We must recognize that behind these sordid struggles there lay a real conflict of ideals.

Historians of science insist that the most important periods in any discipline are those witnessing to a real conflict of basic paradigms.

This is the Third in a Series: New Turns in Religious Thought Historians of science insist that the most important periods in any discipline are those witnessing to a real conflict of basic paradigms.

That is the real conflict of interest.»

There is a real conflict of interest here, because the success of the business depends in part on having lots of users, and also in large part on the publicly perceived success of those users.

It's in these moments that the real conflict of Marty's time travels are fully manifest.

In fact, I'd assume that any reasonable person would say not only is there the appearance of a conflict of interest but there is a real conflict of interest.

As an artist who attempts to blog, I find a real conflict of interests about what I should be blogging about, and what I feel people are interested in.

Now, however, Ver is a Bitcoin Cash proponent and this sets up a skewed incentive type situation — one in which there's a real conflict of interest.

The [Native Title Act] sets up a real conflict of duty for many of our clients; the duty of prosecuting a claim to ensure that substantive rights and interests are recognised while simultaneously discharging their moral duty to their claim group to exercise procedural rights to negotiate fair compensation for mining on their ancestral lands.

Not exact matches

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made at least $ 15 million from his entertainment and real estate interests that he sold to comply with federal conflict of interest rules, according to a filing released Monday.

The possible conflicts of interest inherent in the intersection of real estate investments and political power have been a repeated issue for members of the Trump family.

This is the real problem with conflict of interest.

As my colleague Wayne Norman of Duke University and I have argued in print, the real problem with conflict of interest is not just that this decision maker will make bad decisions this time, or even that this decision maker will make bad decisions all the time.

The second key point in keeping conflict in check is to make sure you inform yourself about the real, underlying causes of the problem before you step in.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

In the event of demand shocks, there is not a large conflict between the real and nominal objectives; the monetary response is the same to meet both objectives, and the actions of all the inflation - targeting central banks would not be significantly different.

It is among businesses that could create unprecedented conflicts of interest for Trump, a New York real estate developer and former reality TV star.

There's a real chance of a repeat this spring, driven by conflicting political needs of Gov. Bruce Rauner, legislative Democrats and their gubernatorial nominee, J.B. Pritzker.

In choosing to register under either Reg A + or Title III, real estate crowdfunding platforms must acknowledge two conflicting facts: 1) that accredited investors have more money to spend, both individually and as an investment demographic that includes institutional investors; and 2) that there are potentially many more non-accredited investors than accredited, and many of them like the idea of passive investing.

«A lot of the most sensitive issues that we face today are conflicts between real values, right?

Ironically, while all our attention for years was focused on getting the SEC to act, adoption of the DOL Conflict of Interest Rule was the first real success in this area.

There are too few protocols in place to avoid real, perceived or potential conflicts of interest.

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In Vattimo's view, absolute truths are a source of conflict and violence, whereas the real strength of Christianity lies in the practice of charity.

Either Jesus was a real man in history who we know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't exist at all and was a lesser god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.

For instance, not once in Achieving Our Country is there a mention of abortion, the single most determinative question in the alignment of the forces in cultural and moral conflict today, which is to say in the real politics of our time.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

There's no shortage of voices in our culture when it comes to love, and they speak quite authoritatively on all matters of love and romance: What to value in a relationship, how to handle conflict, what real love looks like, the importance of sex and so on.

«When we leave at first sign of real conflict, it shortchanges God's best work in our midst.

The problem, of course, is that most people can not live full time in the sheltered enclave; they also participate in the real world of modernity with its conflicting explanations of how the world works.

If they were free, strong, independent modern states, or if they formed a powerful autonomous bloc, the great Russian mass is so very much on the top of them and the danger of the Communist kind of «colonialism» is so real, that nothing could prevent their being on our side in the event of a conflict with communism.

I do believe the theory of evolution is an agenda driven religion that conflicts with real science.

The laws of nature are valid but they» are not deterministic, they allow for freedom, and so for conflicts and frustrations that are not specifically providential (divine punishments, educational devices, or...) but are simply examples of creatures partly making themselves and one another, under the general guidance which insures that symbiosis and mutual helpfulness are as real as self - assertion and predation.

The real conflict here is in regard to the scriptures believed in, not the fact of a God's existence.

To fulfill this mission it was necessary that God the word should become perfect human being in possessing a rational soul capable of exercising a real choice between good and evil and entering into conflict with the passions of the human soul.

The real conflict for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

If this marriage is real it leads to a «vital acknowledgment of many - faced otherness — even in the contradiction and conflict with it.»

When they have sifted out of the alleged amount of antagonisms the real conflicts between genuine needs, they will be ready to move toward a settlement of those conflicts on the base of the fundamental question: What does every man need in order to live as man?

To affirm this difference in the midst of conflict without relaxing the real seriousness of the conflict is the way in which we can from time to time touch on the other's «truth» or «untruth,» «justice» or «injustice.»

For this real achievement, we should be very grateful indeed, even if we should deplore the low intensity conflicts against the poor that are the more characteristic wars of economism.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

Out of these conflicts the more adequate order of freedom and equality must certainly emerge, for it represents the embodiment of the real structure of historical forces which possess ultimately irresistible power.

Thus, the risk of tragedy or conflict is real and is a result of multiple freedom.

i'm sure many of the people on the Springer show were Christians that other Christians would say «they are not a real Christian» — that age old saying that we hear all too often that exposes that religion's conflicted nature.

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If we were to apply Niebuhr's real politics, with its ready acceptance of the inevitability of conflict, to the present nuclear situation, it could well mean «a perverse preference for the war of mutual annihilation, simply because the war of mutual annihilation means, at least, that the other side doesn't win either.»

But what we have established so far is that the exercise of power in history, the expression of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content of our life in the love of God.