Sentence examples for an ethical bind from inspiring English sources

"It potentially puts the governor in an ethical bind".

The majority opinion, Justice Sotomayor said, may reduce the demand for generic drugs and put doctors in an ethical bind.

Signing Foos' confidentiality agreement - in effect agreeing to protect Foos' privacy even as Foos violated the privacy of his guests - left Talese in an ethical bind.

Unlike NRT, these products are not subject to safety or quality control standards, which puts health care clinicians ("first do no harm") who might want to recommend them in an ethical bind.

Artists who have not focused singularly on their art careers are put in an ethical bind when composing a bio, forced to choose between honesty (revealing their age or the fact that art has competed with other activities and interests) and hoping that their elisions don't raise questions.

"To allow or direct a prosecutor to come into the courtroom and offer evidence they felt was torture, it puts a prosecutor in an ethical bind," he said, adding that, in response to his complaints, Hartmann had replied that "everything was fair game -- let the judge sort it out".

This led the Office of Legal Counsel in 1977 to reject a plan for Justice Department lawyers and federal defenders to trade places for a while, correctly concluding that such an arrangement would put participating attorneys in an impossible ethical bind.

The wisdom of the television station to put itself and Ms. Allen in a potential ethical bind was also questioned by a member of her party, State Senator William Schluter a Republican from Mercer County who is the chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards.

So instead of counting on consumers to respond rationally to revealed conflicts, disclosure may work best when it influences those who are caught in the ethical bind.

Herbert Muschamp suggests that city dwellers are a species apart, bound by "an ethical fiber," and that "the function of a city is to refuse everything less than the best".

Psychologists have an ethical obligation to report such behaviors and are bound by our association's ethics code in all their professional activities, regardless of whether they identify themselves as "behavioral scientists" or some other term.