Sentences with phrase «role as an ethical»

This means, specifically, strengthening home and family life, taking a responsible role in politics and participating in the union movement as it strives to recover its role as an ethical force in modern society.

Though today's administration, besieged by an unprecedented budget crisis, insists that it must «creatively alter» this legacy of free education, university organizers claim, in the words of the communique released by Students for a Free Cooper Union, that «an expansionist strategy and lack of accountability have put this college in a financial deficit,» and that «all tuition - based revenue - generating programs are a departure from Cooper Union's historic mission, and will corrupt the college's role as an ethical model for higher education.»

We believe that such programs are a departure from Cooper Union's historic mission and will corrupt the college's role as an ethical model for higher education.

We believe that all tuition - based revenue - generating programs are a departure from Cooper Union's historic mission and will corrupt the college's role as an ethical model for higher education.

In - house counsel's key role as ethical watchdogs for their companies was also explored.

Through this online, media - based course, you'll find a deeper understanding of how you can perform your role as an ethical real estate manager to the highest standards.

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But rather, that it's a case that illustrates the challenges of leadership, and an opportunity to reflect on the ethical demands that fall on leaders in particular, as a result of the special role they play.

The story quotes Bob Walker, vice-president of Ethical Funds at Northwest & Ethical, as saying that keeping the two roles «has become standard practice, not just best practice.»

The more Facebook tries to move beyond its original role as a social network for sharing family photos and other ephemera, the more it finds itself in an ethical minefield, torn between its desire to improve the world and its need to curb certain kinds of speech.

Beyond his intellectual prowess and dedication, R. Lichtenstein's attractiveness as a religious and ethical role model is very much connected to his remarkable personal qualities.

The supreme greatness of Jesus as an ethical teacher does not lie in his skill as a casuist — that was a role he did not essay — but in his vision of the perfect will of God and in the clarity with which he saw that man in every moment of his existence is amenable to no standard short of that perfect will.

This conceptualization of the «preacher as trickster» intensifies the political and ethical dimensions of the preacher's role as social performer and contributes to the prophetic function of preaching.

The latter three are illumined by the human sciences, though they play a role in ethical reflection as well.

The republican state therefore has an ethical, educational, even spiritual role, and it will survive only as long as it reproduces republican customs and republican citizens.9

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

An area of basic disagreement is the role of ethical principles, such as freedom and equality, which most realists, including Morgenthau, who is at times ambiguous on the point, deny.

As consumer awareness and concern about the lives led by animals raised for food continues to rise, ethical concerns are playing an increasingly important role in purchasing decisions.

Besides her role as a therapist and group facilitator working with patients struggling with infertility related issues, she lectures on various topics surrounding the psychological and ethical issues of contemporary family building.

Course participants will gain an overview of the different forms of evaluation of work targeting fathers and methods that might be used in undertaking them; increased awareness on the kinds of agencies and professionals who might be involved in targeting fathers; understanding of the ethical issues, role of monitoring and other forms of record keep as part of the evaluation process; and understanding of the use of evaluative processes as part of organisational and project development

In their study of Mondragon, «Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class», J.K. Gibson - Graham argue that we should see economic life as diverse, and seek to understand how our multiple roles of worker, carer and citizen break down traditionally conceived boundaries.

Rio Tinto today set out its ethical track record to support its role as the official metal provider for the 4,700 medals for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

First came the news that former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker (R) will have to testify next month about his role in a land acquisition deal with Wal - Mart — a fact Democrats immediately sought to exploit as evidence of questionable ethical practices by the Republican.

When Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) took over as Speaker of the House following the 2006 election, she famously promised to «drain the swamp» — a reference to the ethical problems that had consumed the Republican majority and played a major role in their ouster that fall.

Topics range from the history of network theory and its effect on the development of bioinformatics modeling to broader ethical and philosophical considerations, such as data donation and curation, and the role that genomic data should play in eliminating health disparities.

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

When they asked people to role - play as deceivers and deceivees, the researchers discovered that participants felt better about paltering rather than lying by commission; they thought their actions were more ethical because they were technically telling the truth.

Articulate and highly knowledgeable about ethical fashion, Harry Potter and Bling Ring actress Emma Watson answers questions from fans about Fair Trade as part of her role...

An iconic chameleonic actress who has wowed in myriad features, television and stage productions from Prime Suspect to Brighton Rock, The Hundred - Foot Journey to Trumbo, Mirren is endlessly watchable and is here given a truly multi-dimensional role as discussions about the ethical machinations of war grow more heated.

However, Djimon Hounsou's ferocity in his co-leading Blood Diamond role — hell, he might actually have a tad more screen time than DiCaprio — will certainly translate to ethical sincerity to many Oscar voters (who already indicated their affinity for the film by nominating it in nearly as many categories as Murphy's film).

My goals in coming to the Ed School were threefold: expanding my knowledge of how people, early childhood through adolescence, develop moral and ethical behaviors; creating strategies, systems, and tools that educators can use to best preserve and promote moral and ethical growth in the students they teach; and refining the leadership and research skills necessary to further my role as a teacher leader and reformer for the future.

Our role in schools is to equip students as confident, capable, ethical members of society.

For that reason, our work part from a new ethical approach based on the Freirean values of consciousness and it promotes a democratic and accountable education in schools, where teachers attitude plays a very important role as actors democratization of responsibility and sustainability, they are agents of awareness and training of the educational community, and especially for children and young people.

In addition, the two halves of this essay are united in theme, as they are both deeply concerned with the issue of citizenship and the role of social studies teachers in cultivating critical and ethical citizens.

An Introduction to Data Ethics Designed to be incorporated in data science courses, this module includes a reading, homework assignments, and case studies to spark a conversation about ethical issues that students will face in their role as data practitioners.

The ethical mind, which I've been studying for the last 15 years, attempts to do the right thing in our roles as workers and citizens.

RIM has six months to prove a real business need for its Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie to retain their roles as Co-Chairmen of the Board, otherwise Northwest & Ethical Investments LP >>

Most recently, Del received the Educator of the Year award in 2016 from Think Realty, an honor bestowed on innovators who have proven themselves to be stellar role models and leaders based on their sound business practices, high ethical standards and dedication to moving real estate investing forward as a respected industry niche and avenue for wealth building.

As artist Ionat Zurr, who co-founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project with Oron Catts in 1996, said in a recent talk in Edinburgh: «The role of the artist is to be somewhat critical, to ask: «How do those things happening in the lab affect philosophical, ontological, and ethical questions in society?»»

That is why the Roman Catholic Church — with its global reach, the ethical framework in its social justice teachings and, as with all great religions, the ability to reach hearts as well as minds — can play a valuable role in this consequential century.

But it is the role of ethical thinking — the one that poses the question of responsibility — to unblind us to the impact we have as such citizens, whether we assume this citizenship actively or «passively» (the passive has an impact too!)

As we shall see, getting the science right before discussing its ethical implications of science follows from an identification of which of two legitimate roles science is playing in any debate.

Had Turner emerged from an advisory role at a company lacking such spotless ethical credentials — let's say, for example, one such as Exxonmobil — and had he suggested that 60 % was a bit too strong a figure, and perhaps 40 % was a better one, would there ever be an end to claims that this process was corrupt and undemocratic?

Santa Fe GC Janet McCarthy argues lawyers have a important role to play as an ethical and moral compass

Secondly, I agree that one of the primary roles of a lawyer is acting as an advocate for the client, implied in the s - c trust, but there is also an absolute ethical duty, as an officer of the court, to recognize conflicting duties which do not promote effective operation of the judicial system.

In this video, Janet McCarthy, group general counsel and company secretary of global relocation services provider Sante Fe, argues that lawyers have a important role to play as an ethical and moral compass, both for companies and wider society.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

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My hunch is that that account of the prosecutor's role, if coupled with consideration of unique prosecutorial challenges such as the absence of clients, provides a better and richer ethical account of the lawyer's role than does an empty exhortation to do justice.

Alongside this significant representative role, the ABA plays a regulatory role, most notably its adoption and periodic review by the House of Delegates of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct: the Rules serve as the model for the ethical rules adopted by nearly every state of the US (all except California).