Sentences with phrase «standard of conduct from»

The question is: should the public demand a higher standard of conduct from people who are having such a direct influence on public policy.

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.

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«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.»

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.

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 raFrom 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 rafrom 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.

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.»

In its current form, the bill could bar a college from setting standards of belief or conduct not just for students, but for faculty — persons who are crucial to carrying out the college's mission.

We, who used to live at enmity with each other, and used to judge each other by our own moral standards and laws of conduct, we — whether we were far off from God or near to God, we can all, in Jesus Christ and through what He has done on the cross, we can live at peace with each other.

Membership standards become looser as emphasis shifts away from uniform codes of belief and moral conduct toward individual choice and freedom of conscience.

To help ensure that Rainforest Alliance, Inc. (the «Rainforest Alliance») complies with the highest standards of financial reporting and lawful and ethical behavior, the Board of Directors of the Rainforest Alliance (the «Board») has established the following procedures for the reporting of illegal or unethical conduct in connection with the Rainforest Alliance's finances, corporate policies, or other aspects of its operations, and the retention and treatment of such complaints, including confidential, anonymous submissions received from directors, officers, employees, and volunteers who provide substantial services to the Rainforest Alliance (who are referred to in this policy as «volunteers»).

As someone who does not currently collect crystals and is also skeptical of how much a glass can really affect a wine (swigging straight from the bottle is a standard part of my wine reviewing process), I decided to conduct a highly scientific experiment of side - by - side tastings with my fancy - schmancy new universal Zaltos and my tried - and - true standard glasses from Crate & Barrel that I love.

«OSU takes seriously the high standards of conduct expected in our athletic department and does not tolerate any deviation from those standards.»

Leeds academy coach Carlos Corberan, who removed his players from the field in the wake of the incident, also released a statement in which he praised the conduct of his team in upholding the club's standards:

The authors conducted a systematic review of published studies from which estimates of a mean difference (standard error) in blood pressure between breastfed and bottle - fed subjects could be derived.

Cuomo also will have input from a panel of his creation: The 15 - member Common Core Task Force, asked to conduct a sweeping review of the academic standards, curriculum and exams, is due to report its recommendations this month.

«Our proposed committee structure is bi-partisan, featuring three members from each caucus of the legislature; it would also incorporate input from private citizens to ensure its work is conducted at the highest standard»

Mr. Yakubu contends that, the resolution of the report was contradictory, and did not measure up to the standards of good governance because, «if you look at the code of conduct, it was enacted to prevent public officials from being in conflict of interest situations.

Longtime Suffolk County prosecutor John Scott Prudenti regularly collected thousands of dollars from local defense attorneys for the use of his boat, potentially violating county ethics and professional conduct standards.

Anthony Wells of UK Polling Report has always cautioned me to be weary of opinion polls which are conducted over bank holiday weekends but we have a poll from ITV's London Tonight, the Evening Standard and LBC radio which has Boris 4 % ahead of Ken Livingstone after voters» second preferences have been accounted for.

Saying that «Legislative leaders must be held to a higher ethical standard of conduct and his actions violate that standard,» good government group Citizens Union called for Skelos to step down from his leadership post on Tuesday.

The Planning Board conducted a review of the project and on September 10 issued a «negative declaration» under State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) review, meaning that the Planning Board found that there would be no significant adverse environmental impacts from the project, and issued a «preliminary» site plan approval of the project subject to Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) review of «performance standards.»

As the professions experience growing pressures from the public and government policy makers as well as from their own members to exercise their collective responsibility more effectively, they are, with increasing frequency, seeking strategies for informing and educating their members and others about the ethical implications of their work, for developing or revising standards of conduct, and for establishing procedures to implement and enforce whatever ethical prescriptions they adopt.»

Firms and agencies conducting the surveys would benefit from these new measures, the experts assert, because instead of having to navigate an assortment of rules that vary by nation or region, they would have a uniform set of standards to follow.

At the same time, pressure to improve standards came from the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), which represents 11 major bodies, such as Lloyd's Register, that conduct surveys of ships.

«We want a complete sample so that we can conduct our standard SETI analysis in search of modulation patterns or narrow - band signals — any kind of information - bearing signal emitted from their direction that we don't expect from nature,» he said.

Labs currently conducting H5N1 research use «the highest international standards of biosafety and biosecurity practices that effectively prevent the release of transmissible viruses from the laboratory,» the authors note.

Responding to a query from ScienceInsider, university spokesman Eiichiro Iizuka e-mailed a statement saying, «the university is conducting preliminary investigations, including these former retractions,» in accordance with its regulations on standards of conduct in scientific research.

For this project, conducted from 2005 to 2006, survey teams from the National Opinion Research Center used a standard, well - validated test to assess the ability of 3,005 older participants to identify five common odors.

Instead of discussing the group's recent decision to boot Weinstein from its membership rolls and create a new code of conduct, Bailey stuck to a standard intro about world cinema.

A key European standard for ID (EN15713) details the range of requirements that an ID company must meet: they must have an administration office on - site where records and documentation are kept; premises should also be isolated from any other business or activities operating on the same site; intruder alarms that are closely monitored by an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) should be installed on the property; and CCTV should be placed at the points where the unloading, storage and processing of information is conducted.

• Experience working on compliance with section 508 accessibility controls • Experience in front - end security for role - based application security • Experience with industry - standard digital tools, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Axure, Web UI toolkits and / or other interaction prototyping tools • Experience with HTML5, Boilerplate, CSS3, SCSS, Less.js, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Node.js, AJAX, REST, JSON, and XML • Must own duties that evolve from wireframes to HTML / CSS prototypes to finished digital products • Ability to work independently and conduct self - directed research • Ability to work collaboratively across different departments • Must have strong customer relationship skills • Familiarity with agile methodology and Scrum • Awareness of trends and best practices in designing for a subscription - based news website • Familiarity with web - services, using / implementing WebAPI or similar SOA frameworks • Familiarity consuming REST Web Services / APIs (REST / SOAP / JSON / XML) • Familiarity with code versioning systems (SVN, GIT) • Familiarity with Task Runners (Webpack, Grunt, Gulp) is a plus.

A performance review of career teachers needs to be conducted once every three years and include classroom observation of the teacher, a review of the teacher's progress on the Iowa teaching standards and additional standards and criteria, a review of the implementation of teacher's individual professional development plan, and supporting documentation from other evaluators, teachers, parents, and students.

What distinguishes policy - oriented research conducted by literacy researchers from that conducted by policy and measurement researchers is a primary emphasis on the subject - matter content of standards and assessment and their validity and consistency with current literacy theory and research.

State experts, local educators, postsecondary faculty and community members from the PARCC states conduct rigorous reviews of every item and passage being developed for the PARCC assessment system to ensure all test items are of the highest quality, aligned to the standards, and fair for all student populations.

According to a 2013 survey of charter facilities in 12 states conducted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, few schools met facility standards for classroom size — ranging from a high of 34 percent in Georgia to 10 percent in Idaho.

As we discussed in the methods section, the coverage analyses were conducted at two levels: (a) the extent to which the benchmarks / objectives reflect a developmental progression or «curricular path» from kindergarten through grade 3, and (b) the number of state standards documents attending to each area of the subject matter criteria presented in Table 2.

The content of early reading / language arts standards and benchmarks should derive from a convergence of information from research conducted from a variety of perspectives, including research on reading acquisition among linguistically and culturally diverse children.

None of our current methods attempt to steadily build up children's knowledge; not the empty state and district language arts standards, which rarely mention a specific text or piece of information; not the reading textbooks, which jump from one trivial piece to another; and not the comprehension drills conducted in schools in the long periods of 90 — 120 minutes devoted to language arts.

Officials from all four state educational agencies with which we conducted interviews told us they faced challenges in ensuring that geography standards remained an integral part of the state curriculum.

As a result of technical assistance requests from various stakeholders, CSAI has conducted comprehensive scans or reviews of states» efforts surrounding teacher evaluation, standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

The announcement of the mandatory standard follows the summer introduction of the 2013 AAHA Dental Care Guidelines for Dogs and Cats, which advocate the use of anesthesia and intubation to conduct more thorough dental work and spare pets from pain during procedures.

Consumers will be inclined to purchase products from companies that they believe conduct themselves with ethical standards, are concerned with the environment and sustainability of the planet, and practice good corporate stewardship.

And is it this sneaky undercurrent of innuendo that turns a nearby skein of fly - repelling metal curtain chain, hung from a horizontal bar (Standard, 2010) into a Scheherazade - style veil behind which one could easily imagine someone conducting a saucy dance?

Drawing on studies conducted in Sweden, Super-insulated and Passive Solar experiments from North America and «Low Energy» European building standards, the concept of a building that could be practically constructed to maintain a comfortable interior climate without conventional heating or cooling systems was devised, tested and proven.

Michael has a Master of Pest Management from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in Plant and Soil Sciences from West Virginia University, where he conducted research on one of the nation's first land grant university farms operated entirely according to national organic standards.