Sentence examples for general rules of conduct from inspiring English sources

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Fifa said that Sedibe, Goddard and Carelse had all infringed ethics rules concerning general rules of conduct, loyalty and disclosure, cooperation and reporting.

Consequentialists also differ over whether each individual action should be judged on the basis of its consequences or whether instead general rules of conduct should be judged in this way and individual actions judged only by whether they accord with a general rule.

A statement from the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's ethics committee said: "Mr Villar Llona failed to behave in accordance with the general rules of conduct applicable to football officials in the context of the investigations conducted by the then chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Fifa ethics committee regarding the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cup bids.

Among contemporary western consequentialists, the main such division is between those who focus on particular actions, and those who focus on general rules of conduct.

In a position reminiscent of J.S. Mill, Oakeshott argued empirically that people want to pursue their own life plans, and it is for this reason that governing ought to provide "general rules of conduct" and not "plans for imposing substantive activity" (1991: 424).

Later statutes gave the governor the power to appoint advisory committees on reorganization, appoint deputy heads of divisions, transfer employees and change their responsibilities within the executive branch, and establish general rules of conduct for executive branch members.

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In addition to the distinction between multilateral and bilateral treaties, there is also the distinction between treaties representing a definite transaction (e.g., a cession of territory) and those seeking to establish a general rule of conduct (e.g., the "renunciation of war").

A compadre in unplugging, put it this way, "As long as you find clean restaurants with good reputations, refrain from getting drunk in public, driving too late and buying drugs on the street -- if you follow these general rules of civil conduct -- you will be fine".

Which is why, as How To Eat, Word of Mouth's most dictatorial blog, tackles this quintessentially British snack, it does so fully aware that we may never settle on any general rules of good gastronomic conduct.

Here are some general rules of engagement.

But are there any general rules of thumb?

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