Sentences with phrase «standards of conduct by»

The court further noted that NAR's Code of Ethics «is regarded as the standard of conduct by real estate men throughout the United States and shall be regarded as such in the State of Arizona.»

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Currently, registered investment advisors regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or state securities regulators are already held to a fiduciary standard of conduct under which they must act in their clients» best interests.

Winners are found this way: First, the Product of the Year Canada jury carefully selects the finalists — that is, products that meet or exceed innovation standards — which are then categorized and judged by an online survey, on behalf of Rogers Insights and conducted by TNS, of thousands of regular Canadian shoppers.

A study co-authored by Morin, based on a survey conducted in the winter of 2010 — 11, concluded that 23 % of working - age Canadians are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living in retirement.

«There's a lot of questions to be answered to make sure our law enforcement officers are abiding by the highest standards and rules as they conduct their investigations.»

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

The U.S. Senate has a responsibility to be an example for the rest of the country by setting the highest standards of conduct.

Indeed, the CNBC Millionaire Survey, which was conducted by market research firm Spectrem Group, found 19 percent of high - net - worth respondents wish to leave enough for their kids to be comfortable and maintain their standard of living, but not all they have, while 17 percent indicated they will be «very cautious» in how much they leave, because they want their children to learn self - reliance.

«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.

We discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss with audit committees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit Committees).

Recognizing the threat of predatory pricing executed by Standard Oil, Congress passed a series of laws prohibiting such conduct.

We will only accomplish this goal by ensuring that we (the employees and contractors at Coinbase) all hold ourselves to a high standard of conduct.

There are many more applications of blockchain currently being adopted by banks — Bank of America has filed numerous patents relating to using the technology for conducting and settling transactions; Deutsche Bank is trialling a corporate - bond platform that uses smart contracts to issue and redeem bonds; and DBS and Standard Chartered Banks are working on a trade - finance collaboration with Ripple to better track invoices and avoid invoice duplication.

According to a recent national survey commissioned by the Business Council of Canada and conducted by Ipsos, Canadians themselves are nearly unanimous in wanting to see this country's companies held to the highest ethical standards, both at home and abroad (93 per cent agree).

We enable you to work smarter than ever before by providing service geared to you as an individual, by bringing extraordinary expertise and attention to detail to every case, by offering proprietary technology tools that increase your efficiency, and by adhering to the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct.

For example, in February seven UK cryptocurrency companies — BlockEx; CEX.IO; Coinbase; CoinShares; CommerceBlock; CryptoCompare; and eToro — launched CryptoUK, a self - regulatory trade body, to improve industry standards by publishing a code of conduct and to engage policy makers.

By April 10, 2017, advisory firms must adhere to what the DOL describes as «impartial conduct standards,» acting in the best interests of the client.

It's hard to know what to do, it's hard to know how to deal with the situation, especially because we're in a situation where both parties know what the standard is; it would be different if they had never been LDS and therefore had not once lived by a particular code of conduct.

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.

Human introspection is hardly capable of identifying all the efficient causes of a past feeling, let alone weighing the power of each relative to each other and to that feeling's final causality; God in turn would seem to have no impartial information or standards by which to conduct such comparative weighings with perfect precision.

Some roles in the business world can be conducted better by those who understand themselves as professionals and accept a broad cultural and social responsibility for leadership along with that for the standards of their profession.

As of October 2016, the project has enrolled 7,000 farmers (88 % of the project's total target), who are registered in the Olam Information System (OFIS); completed basic training in order to optimize sustainable yields and other income opportunities; introduced record keeping practices by distributing log books to 1,000 farmers; promoted farmer group development in a Training of Trainers (ToT) session; trained 10 new lead farmers on best agricultural practices that were then integrated with climate - smart agricultural Practices (CSA) and the Sustainable Agricultural Network (SAN) Standard; as well as conducted a baseline sampling monitoring survey that is currently being analyzed by the program team.

The company says it accomplishes this by: > «Taking pride in our immense devotion to customer service; > «Making every effort to fulfill customer requests; > «Delivering quality products accurately and timely in accordance with customers» orders; > «Working together in a synergistic environment to ensure the satisfaction of all customers; > «Recognizing and supporting our commitment to our employees as valuable links in our chain of success; and > «Conducting business according to the highest ethical standards and serving as an outstanding corporate citizen in the community.»

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.

A 2008 survey conducted by Professor Michael Hiscox — Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University — found that New York consumers were willing to pay more for items labelled as being made under good labour standards.

My hat is off to US Lacrosse (which, by the way, is an organization that I highlighted in my book, Home Team Advantage, for having a Board of Directors, unlike almost all other sports governing bodies, comprised equally of men and women), for providing the funding needed to design testing protocols and conduct the testing which yielded the data and measurements used in shaping the new headgear standard.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The authoritarian parent attempts to shape, control, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of the child in accordance with a set standard of conduct, usually an absolute standard, theologically motivated and formulated by a higher authority.

Each person that participates in the Arlington Heights Youth Athletic Association Softball League must conduct themselves within a certain standard of conduct as outlined by the Arlington Heights Youth Athletic Association Softball League.

Advance high standards of professional practice and conduct by conducting educational and professional meetings and conferences;

A sixth school was labelled inadequate for its poor educational standards and another 12 were told to make improvements.Ofsted will be able to conduct snap inspections of any school with no warning, under new plans being drawn up by the prime minister ahead of what is expected to be a damning report into extremism in Birmingham schools.

Mission Statement: The mission statement for the Oneida County Board of Election's office is to establish and increase public confidence in the electoral process by conducting voter registration and elections with the highest level of professional election standards, integrity, security, accuracy, and fairness.

Yet the blatant double - standards of the west - which freely conducts military operations in Pakistan, sometime at great human cost, but refuses to countenance a similar Indian reaction - is being felt acutely by the Indian public.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

The way we work, our global code of business conduct, supported by our global policies, standards and guidance notes, in conjunction with the requirements of local law and our voluntary commitments, forms the basis of our governance systems.

I can't find the exact dates of the poll yet, but press reports suggest it was conducted after the Channel 4 Dispatches programme criticising Ken Livingstone, and the preceeding couple of weeks of agressive attacks on Livingstone by the Evening Standard.

This raises questions over the routine maintenance that the flat has received, and whether the cost of deeply cleaning the flat is higher than if the flat had been regularly cleaned to a high standard by the occupier... I wish to request that you conduct an investigation into the appropriateness of this expenditure, and why the cost of cleaning was so high.

The mayor groused there appears to be a «double standard» at work with the investigation being conducted by the Board of Elections.

A survey conducted by the Department of Education found support for the controversial Common Core standards.

The law creates more transparency in local government by holding all county elected officials to a high standard of conduct and enforces stricter penalties for those who do not abide.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

The code requires members to act in the public interest and in accordance with the seven general principles of conduct identified by the committee on standards in public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

A case involving a member of the Woodstock Town Board has drawn attention to the local ethics law, which seeks to establish standards of conduct for town officers, employees, and consultants, and to procedures followed by the volunteer board that administers and enforces the statute.

According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, on Thursday, the envoy said the conduct of the poll should set a higher standard in the conduct of elections in the country.

Eliminating NDA protections will simultaneously raise the standard of personal conduct in organizations by publicly exposing patterns of behavior that would otherwise remain hidden.

The Program carries out its mission by engaging individual scientists and scientific associations in human rights efforts; applying scientific tools and technologies to enhance human rights work; bringing human rights standards to the conduct of science; and promoting the human right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.»

For an institution, it is a commitment to creating an environment that promotes responsible conduct by embracing standards of excellence, trustworthiness, and lawfulness and then assessing whether researchers and administrators perceive that an environment with high levels of integrity has been created.»

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

While more than two - thirds of nonacademic organizations consider performance reviews standard practice, almost half the academic institutions questioned in a survey conducted by COSEPUP said they do not officially review their postdocs.

Right now, much of the emphasis in science is on the professional responsibility of scientists to stick to «standards agreed upon by the scientific community» regarding how research should be conducted, Frankel said.