Sentence examples for aggressive ethics from inspiring English sources

Since then, the aggressive ethics office has won the rancor of investigated members of Congress and the hearts of good-government groups.

The turmoil at the commission troubled several government watchdog groups, which said that they saw the lobbying commission as that rarest of creatures in Albany: an aggressive ethics committee.

Civic groups worried that the ruling could further hobble a commission that they view as the only aggressive ethics monitor in Albany, one that is already under a great deal of political pressure.

The commission, which is often seen here as the only aggressive ethics agency in Albany, is fighting legal challenges to its powers by lobbyists and others and a loss of support from some top state politicians.

Over the last dozen years, Mr. Grandeau, the executive director of the Temporary State Commission on Lobbying, has had dust-ups with many of the prominent political figures in Albany and has been widely considered the state government's only aggressive ethics officer.

Less than two months after a federal corruption investigation led to the arrest of four state senators, Gov. Bob Riley of Alabama announced Wednesday that he was calling a special session of the Legislature this month and urged lawmakers to pass an aggressive ethics overhaul package.

But more than anything else, the senator's aggressive stands on ethics issues have marked him as a star in the making and a thorn in the side of the balky McGreevey administration.

But as it turned out, it was Mr. Schott -- and the school's parents -- who were about to learn something: a lesson in how a school making the purest and most aggressive efforts to teach ethics can still come up short.

But bearing in mind that my Anna-loving six-year-old would never forgive me for putting my snooty reservations above her pleasure, I went – leaving my views on children's gender roles, food ethics and aggressive marketing techniques at home.

A heated Republican debate over the ethics of aggressive business tactics — and the broader implication that Mr. Romney was out of touch with the lives of ordinary people — seemed incongruous for a party that is traditionally unapologetic about its embrace of corporate wealth creation.

As campaigns for state judgeships have become nastier and more expensive in recent years, some states have tried to limit aggressive judicial politicking with new ethics rules, stricter enforcement and campaign finance restrictions.