Sentences with phrase «take ethical positions»

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Employees say: «After four years with this company, I can honestly say Stryker takes and teaches the ethical and moral position in all business transactions.

As an ethical, active real estate broker in Toronto who is very familiar with the concerns buyers have with multiple representation (mainly in multiple offer scenarios), I do not support the position the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) or the government (banning «double - ending» altogether) has taken.

He takes no position on capital punishment, abortion, or just war (the irresolvability of which he regards as indicative of our impoverished ethical conversation).

Yoder takes seriously Niebuhr's own insistence on the particularity of all theological and ethical positions.

The reason I ask you to face the realities of your argument here is because I'm hoping that you'll take a close look at the logical and ethical inconsistencies of your own position, and learn something about yourself from that close look.

Antonio Gramsci criticized Croce's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century for beginning in 1815 and his History of Italy for beginning in 1871, that is, just after but not including the French Revolution in the one book or the Risorgimento in the other.3 He thus excluded «the moment of struggle; the moment in which the conflicting forces are formed, are assembled and take up their positions; the moment in which one ethical - political system dissolves and another is formed by fire and steel; the moment in which one system of social relations disintegrates and falls and another arises and asserts itself.

But if science is misrepresented or issues are misunderstood, there is a danger that the public will be misled when taking position in an ethical debate.

By playing with the spectator's expectations of catharsis, it forces them to respond both emotionally and intellectually and to take a more ethical position in relation to the film by rationally contemplating their emotional response.

Of itself, that doesn't expose you to the unequal yoke, but when you are in an economic agreement that binding, if your partner takes the business in an ethical direction you find dubious, you will be in a weak position to do something about this.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) also vigorously opposes TNR, taking the position that it is inhumane for the cats as well as the wildlife they hunt, injure, and / or kill.

It has sparked internecine fights about identitarian rights to speech and ethical positions, and encouraged any half - intelligent person to take a long, hard look at their own value systems.

Yet even in these case where there is disagreement there are usually parties taking positions that no ethical system would condone.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Has your national government taken any position on or other wise encouraged individuals, businesses, organizations, subnational governments, or other entities that they have some ethical duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

And so a position that a nation takes on atmospheric ghg atmospheric targets is necessarily an ethical issue because nations and people have an ethical duty to not harm others and the numerical ghg atmospheric goal will determine how much harm polluting nations will impose on the most vulnerable.

Although there is a growing literature on the ethical dimensions of climate change, most of this literature is focused on theoretical ethical questions rather than on the injustice of positions actually being taken about climate policies.

In addition, the positions actually taken by nations on these issues in the negotiations utterly fail any reasonable ethical scrutiny.

Also despite the fact that the positions that the United States and several other countries have frequently taken in Internationale climate negotiations have clearly flunked minimum ethical scrutiny, the US media has largely ignored the ethical and justice issues raised by the US response to climate change.

On the contrary, the scientific evidence supports such ethical positions I may take, on questions of human equality, race, human sexuality, religious freedom, non-religious freedom, ideas on the need to conserve the environment for future generations etc etc Even on questions of nuclear power and genetic engineering, which those of similar political persuasion to my own sometimes have difficulty with, I'd say yes, lets be guided by science and science alone.

This conclusion is supported by comments from the Office of Inspector General (OIG), a consistent reading the the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG), the position taken by the government in Corporate Integrity Agreement fraud and abuse settlements, and by the general ethical standards that apply to the general counsel.

The purpose of the LCA is to recognize deserving, experienced, and highly qualified lawyers, to provide an outlet for scholarly authorship of legal articles on trial and litigation practice, to provide additional sources for professional development, to promote superior advocacy and ethical standards in the practice of law, to assist in community involvement by its membership, and to advance a superior judiciary, by taking relevant positions on issues or legislation affecting judicial compensation and / or benefits, as well as those affecting the American litigation processes.

As an ethical, active real estate broker in Toronto who is very familiar with the concerns buyers have with multiple representation (mainly in multiple offer scenarios), I do not support the position the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) or the government (banning «double - ending» altogether) has taken.