Sentence examples for ethical gesture from inspiring English sources

A boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 would be another ethical gesture.

"This is an ethical gesture based on respect for world cultures and dignity that every human being deserves," Mayor Pierre Albertini, who is a lawyer and a member of Parliament, wrote on his blog last week.

Last year a museum in Rouen, Normandy, where the head had been held since it was donated by a French collector in 1875, decided to return it to New Zealand as an "ethical gesture of respect" for the Maori people.

The country's chief law enforcement officer, John Ashcroft, has recused himself from the case because he too received Enron cash -- though even that ethical gesture looks suspicious, given his failure to stay out of Justice matters involving such other contributors as the N.R.A. and Microsoft.

Right now, companies are happy to make ethical gestures but not to shift away from business as usual, argues journalist and filmmaker Leah Borromeo.

You might dismiss this kind of ethical consumerism as mere gesture.

Two thousand years of Confucian thought underlay every ethical stance, every aesthetic gesture.

Streetwear brands are beginning to pursue new environmentally-conscious manufacturing options, and the best of them don't just make tokenistic gestures towards ethical practices.

Interests: late 20th and early 21st century modernisms (especially Boulez, Ligeti, spectralism, and concrète instrumentale); pitch quality in post tonal music; transformational theory; phenomenology and analytic philosophy of mind; ethical and ideological dimensions of modernist aesthetics; gesture and embodiment; temporality and form.

"The combination of gesturing towards what are usually called 'important ethical issues,' while steadfastly putting off serious discussion of them, is pretty typical in our technology debates". This ethical reticence has some serious consequences.

The combination of gesturing towards what are usually called "important ethical issues," while steadfastly putting off serious discussion of them, is pretty typical in our technology debates.