Compliance solves for diversity — not inclusion — and it is why well-meaning efforts at inclusiveness within companies and through organizations like CEO Act!on for Diversity & Inclusion often lose momentum — though the intentions are respectable.
Piano's intention is certainly respectable, but it's doomed to disappointment if it lacks a deeper analysis.
First, intentions can be respectable without being clearheaded, and the foundations of the current austerity policy, combined with the rigidities of Europe's monetary union (in the absence of fiscal union), have hardly been a model of cogency and sagacity.
His emphasis, finally, on the commandments as the clearest embodiments of what is pleasing to God was clearly meant to nourish not only respect for the nobility of Israel's ancestral way of life, but also to encourage renewed commitment to that life as defined by worthy deeds and self-mastery over and above pleasing intentions and intellectually respectable opinions.
Let them know you have no criminal intentions and that you are a respectable, community-minded small-business owner.
If Iran really has no intention of getting nuclear weapons, it has a respectable way out.
Initially, Mr. Curtis, then starting to direct, had no intention of casting Mr. Nighy, who had built a respectable career but had not broken through to stardom.
The lover's quarry, in that work, is ostensibly to be sought in the demimonde (i.e., among women on the fringes of respectable society who are supported by wealthy lovers), and Ovid explicitly disclaims the intention of teaching adultery; but all of his teaching could in fact be applied to the seduction of married women.
Another sign that classics are respectable again could be found in the announcement this month of the IGA Automobile Fund, which aims to launch in April with the intention of trading in the world's most desirable and iconic collectors' cars.
