Sentence examples for ethics conviction from inspiring English sources

Former Gov. Guy Hunt today entered the governor's race, five years after being forced from office for an ethics conviction.

Former Gov. Guy Hunt, who decided to run after being pardoned from the state ethics conviction that forced his resignation in 1993, finished third, with 8percentt.

WASHINGTON — When a federal trial judge tossed out the ethics conviction of former Senator Ted Stevens last week, his lawyers promulgated the story of an innocent man victimized by unscrupulous prosecutors.

While the gifts were properly disclosed and legally permissible under Virginia law, the state's in-kind donation laws recently came into the spotlight when the U.S. Supreme Court in June unanimously overturned former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's (R) ethics conviction, which stemmed from undisclosed gifts and charges of quid-pro-quo corruption.

Weber thus concluded: "the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not absolute opposites.

Weber suggested two sets of ethical virtues that a proper political education should cultivate — the ethic of conviction (Gesinnungsethik) and the ethic of responsibility (Verantwortungsethik).

The ethics of conviction and the ethics of responsibility are not contradictory, they are mutually complementary.

The deontologist does not reason in terms of consequences but of universal duties, a viewpoint that comes close to an ethics of conviction, according to which nobody can decide on a person's QoL [ 25, 26].

So we find ourselves between three positions and no longer two: respect for life (the ethics of conviction), quality of life based on autonomy (rationalist and secular deontologism), and quality of life based on the differential between well-being and suffering (utilitarianism).

This ultimate decision and the Kantian integrity between intention and action constitute the essence of what Weber calls an ethic of conviction.

Demanding an unmitigated integrity between one's ultimate value and political action, that is to say, the deontological ethic of conviction cannot be reconciled with that of responsibility which is consequentialist in essence.