Sentence examples for ethical decline from inspiring English sources

With America's ethical decline, Europe seems more poised to take the moral high ground from America, and thus popular support and influence.

Smith traces the ethical decline of a firm that, by his observation, was formerly only "long-term greedy" and dedicated to serving clients, but now preys on them as "muppets".

With scandal swirling around Tom DeLay and several other Republican congressmen now that the lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty to serious charges and promised to divulge secrets of wrongdoing, the House majority leader has become a symbol of ethical decline in the Republican-dominated Congress.

Or maybe it's evidence of our society's ethical decline.

I have never seen so much moral decline and ethical decay.

It has been suggested that such exposure results in a more cynical attitude towards academic life and to the profession among students[ 30], the so-called "ethical erosion" or decline in attitudes already discussed[ 22, 23, 28, 47].

"More than half of them said the big bang had contributed to a decline in ethical standards.

For ethical reasons, patients who decline to participate will still be offered the intervention in their clinic.

Lack of integrity among medical school applicants, students, residents and even physicians has been widely reported [ 15- 18], with differences in attitudes and behaviours and a decline in ethical behaviour across years [ 10, 19].

Dikunets admitted that the lab had been in violation of certain ethical codes, but repeatedly declined to say what exactly had gone wrong.

Last week, then, was the second time I had declined, for ethical reasons, to review the work of a writer who I think is a big-hearted, risk-taking and phenomenally talented novelist.