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You're going to be exposed to issues of ethical and unethical behavior. I call this (program) a hot house, a forced learning experience and they have a lot to learn about how to move in that environment.

This is an extreme Catholic position that is not justifiable in the context of even the Catholic health ethical guidelines on the treatment of women who've been raped.

This is an ethical dilemma, and we did find several instances in which individuals stepped over the line.

This is not just an ethical issue. It's now become an economic issue.

This is one of those case where there can be multiple, justifiable ethical right answers.

This gets around all of the ethical arguments except for that small minority of the pro-life community that doesn't even support in vitro fertilization,

This document provides excellent guidelines for scientific experimentation within a framework of high ethical principles.

This fact raises clear questions about the integrity of the internal ethical wall that purportedly separates Deutsche Bank's asset management division from its commercial division,

This Belgian sports minister has broken every ethical rule in the book by naming a player without any proof of wrongdoing, without any basic evidence.

This has been a highly regrettable episode for Compass group. The board is determined that Compass group should meet the highest ethical and governance standards and is taking all necessary steps to ensure that this is the case.

This law puts Massachusetts at the forefront of life science research, which holds the promise of curing many of the country's most devastating diseases. She's confident that any ethical issues raised by current research techniques will be rendered moot by the development of more scientific procedures.

This kind of research should not be done without proper ethical oversight. These are very, very tricky issues.

This is a very serious incident and we will have to investigate it fully and decide what to do based on what the investigation turns up but we are treating it very, very seriously because it's an obvious violation of professional and ethical standards.

It's encouraging that scientists are even thinking about the ethical problems of embryonic stem-cell research. But I don't think these two techniques solve the ethical problems.

It seems some people have made campaign promises, but this is too important to get all wrapped up in politics. This is an ethical question. Just because you can move it, should you?

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

I took more or less an ethical approach in that I did not constantly bother them about coming to Adrian,

(It's about) how he was always quietly uncomfortable with what he was doing, but not enough to do anything about it, with (some) exception. It's a fascinating story and a wonderful case study in ethical and unethical formation.

It's a declaration of widely shared values and common goals. It sets forth fundamental ethical principles for protecting the environment, building a strong community locally and globally, and a sustainable way of life. It's an expression of hope and a call to action.

It's a recognition that we already have here some of the highest quality stem cell lines in the nation, if not the world. It also speaks to the fact that we have in place an infrastructure for developing those lines in a highly ethical way and in a highly efficient way.

It raises the specter of a conflict of interest. It's an ethical question.

It's not only a legal matter, it's also a moral and ethical matter that the country needs to clear up, ... What we're trying to do, while giving him all the rights to due process, is to finally bring him to justice.

It makes me very angry that ethical investigators are now faced with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, ... outrageous.

It's going to be a shared set of values, a shared ethical framework that's going to be the glue that will hold together societies struggling with enormously difficult choices.

It's going to be a while. The school district has vowed to stick to our moral, legal and ethical duties.

It's got to be tempting to allow yourself to be flattered, buttered-up, helped, given favors and so forth. It's hard to refuse them unless you very consciously recognize that it's one of the permanent ethical challenges of that life.

It's our obligation to use the law to the furthest possible means to protect our users' privacy. It's just a legal and ethical principle.

It's unfortunate of course that what kept him from the swearing in was an activity that is itself of dubious ethical propriety.

Do not fear; put your trust in him. The life-giving power of his light is an incentive for building a new world order based on just ethical and economic relationships.

Does the fact that this corporation operates under Chinese law free it from all ethical considerations? How far will it go to please Beijing?

It's not ethical for the president to manage the state's resources at the same time he is a candidate. It's dishonest competition with the other presidential candidates.

The big ethical question is, is this somehow unseemly to do? I'd have reservations if it were a member of my family, but she clearly wanted to be part of this.

Students learned about crisis management and how to address the media when something goes wrong, as well as how these fictional public relations professionals handled ethical problems. Instead of just talking about ethical standards or spin theory during class, we had real examples of professionals working with different kinds of news media, such as 'Larry King Live' and the 'Today Show.'

The best responses are from people who have experienced or thought through a situation, ... think creatively about how to make that first response as productive and ethical as possible.

I've known Jim Letten personally and professionally and I know he has a marvelous reputation in law enforcement, ... He's an honorable and ethical man and an extraordinary public servant.

They demonstrate that you can isolate the equivalent embryonic stem cells by alternative methods that may not raise the ethical questions,

They have silenced the voices of the people I represent in the Fox Valley, who care very much about this issue and about their representatives being ethical and responsible in the service they give." ()

This is just a political move aimed at embarrassing the governor. Mr. Kushner has lived and conducted himself in an ethical way.

So far as Jews are concerned... there is no safety for them unless they manage to establish higher ethical standards in their own life.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

The issue people most identify with him is his gift to a union leader. This is a very easy ethical problem to understand.

The integrity of our programs and the ethical conduct of our personnel are of the utmost importance to us.

I made two documentaries in high school, the first one was called 'Sport Hunters' and it was all about hunting and its ethical and ecological implications in the modern world, which I showed to my whole high school I think got a lot of the 'liberal' types to reconsider their deep-seated prejudices about hunting and hunters like myself. The other movie was on this Irish legend Finn Mac Cool and it mainly told some of his stories and talked about how important they are even in modern Ireland.

I'm sure of it. There's not been one criminal charge ever on an ethics case, revolving-door ethical violation, anything.

Information technology plays such a critical role in the global economy, that a corporation's ability to compete in that economy is increasingly defined by its IT capabilities. Operating in this extended, multinational and multicultural environment places companies under greater pressure than ever to manage their ethical responsibilities. Businesses need to be thinking as much about how IT can be instrumental in promoting ethically sensitive and responsible business cultures and the positive outcomes that can be generated.

Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

I'm trying not to let it matter. If they wanted to cut it in two, they could. It wouldn't be ethical but it would be legal. It's not mine anymore.

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

In rooting around for something to grab onto, I latched onto the past and people in the past who I felt were strong, actively ethical characters.

I offered people an ethical bribe to buy my book.

In the meantime, ethical research not derived from embryos in the public and private sectors has helped cure almost 60 diseases.

If you were offering something that is fair and honest and ethical and aboveboard, you are going to stand out, if the competition is unethical. And it seems that the public was probably pretty fed up with that type of treatment, especially after the quake.

Cabinet officers don't live in a vacuum. Just because they had business dealings with someone in the past does not mean they cannot serve in an ethical way. Charles Kushner is not getting any special treatment.

Because word-of-mouth marketing is fundamentally the most honest form of marketing, our members came to us early on. They wanted to form an ethical practice.

Before the U.S. government condones with federal funding research that results in the destruction of living human embryos, we have the moral obligation to explore and exhaust every ethical alternative,

He set a high ethical standard for his administration, and in this case he failed to meet that standard, ... There is no excuse for this oversight.

By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

If I had a gun to my head to vote today, I'd say yes. The body of work was there, but it's a tough call with him. The debate that many voters will have is whether the things he did off the field outweigh what he did on it. It's an interesting ethical question. I'd hold my nose, but I'd say yeah.

I don't think there's any question in ethical thinking that if treatment is medically futile, you don't continue it. But what is 'medically futile?' Often there's no clear line.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.

I applaud Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger who are part of the growing bipartisan coalition of leaders determined to give hope to patients and families suffering from chronic disease and injury. However, the Brownback bill in the United States Senate would prohibit a technique that allows critical patient-specific stem cell research. If passed, this would have overwhelming and devastating consequences to the advancement of medical science here in California and around the world, severely harming our research funding program in California and undermining the basic right of families in this country to gain access to ethical therapies to help their loved ones. We owe it to the future of California and the nation to follow the vision of hope for patients.

I don't think these laws make public officials ethical. They tell the public we mean business because we are serious about wanting an ethical institution.

He came and applied for one, ... And, quite candidly, I've had several calls from people who said, 'What in the world are you doing, Larry?' But the truth of the matter is the man has a master's degree in public administration; he has no criminal record, no convictions, no ethical convictions. He comes extremely well-recommended through the community and people of substance.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

The key was to do it in a legal and ethical way that everybody can look at and say, 'Yes, this sets the right standard for the U.S. House of Representatives and this is the way people should act in a responsible manner,

Their No. 1 value is ethics, No. 2 is responding to customers and No. 3 is profits, ... They're saying, 'We won't do anything that will improve our profit if it's not ethical or responsive to customers.'

These games and the preparation leading up to these games will be held at the highest level of ethical conduct, ... code of conduct that each member of the (SLOC) will sign and live by.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

The ethical thing to do ... would have been to stop filming at that point. But he (the CNN reporter) didn't.

The ethical standard is pretty much universal. It's the same reason physicians can't be involved in coerced interrogations.

The ethical person should do more than he is required to do and less than he is allowed to do.

The ethical hunter awards are designed to bring the spotlight to those we hope represent the majority of hunters - ethical, thoughtful outdoors people.

The ethical cloud over the White House is growing. President Bush should have no hesitation about returning the more than $100,000 directly raised for his re-election campaign by an admitted felon.

And so again I ask those responsible, with oversight of the liquor commission, to evaluate this and to enact the proper ethical standards so that this type of corruption never, ever happens again.

All this is confirmation we will see breakthroughs without compromising ethical standards. We're not going to have to go that way if we can just be patient and fund the basic science.

The closure of the investigation reflects our view that Intel conducts its business in an ethical and lawful manner,

The concept of legitimacy in Thailand is not just about elections. It has a moral and ethical component to it.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

the legal, political, moral and ethical importance of this vote.