When Vice President Dick Cheney and other senior officials split hairs over torture, that shapes our ability to conduct the war on terror more powerfully than do the interrogation techniques themselves.
The endless forms of conditionality enacted by Congress to shape the conduct of U.S. foreign policy are generally ineffective, if not actively counterproductive, IMHO.
Petersen is nominated for a lifetime's job as a US district judge in Washington DC, where the courts regularly shape the conduct of the federal government.
Mere words of pro hibition, with force and the threat of force their only sanction, cannot shape human conduct in mass society.
Within these efforts to shape the conduct of NGOs we call attention to the constitutive role of NGO 'counter-conduct' – conduct by NGOs motivated by a desire to be governed differently (Foucault, 2007).
Ethical Inquiry (EI) (2.0 Credits Required) Ethical issues and values frame and shape human conduct and ways of life.
Thus, they need to develop and apply skills in ethical reasoning and to gain an understanding of a variety of ways in which, across time and place, ethical issues and values frame and shape human conduct and ways of life.
In it, he critiques the US Supreme Court's standard approach to resolving constitutional cases involving the police, exploring how the Court might shape police conduct more effectively by directing its decisions to policymakers rather than street-level officers.
Exxon's worldview will now fundamentally shape the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, including over the transcendentally important matter of negotiating global climate accords.
Other units in Army Group Don were in no shape to conduct offensive operations, due to losses sustained in the past month of combat, while many new formations which had been promised did not arrive on time.
Not only did he shape the conduct of U.S. foreign policy for the century to come, but he also played an outsized role, particularly for a cabinet secretary of a then-peripheral power, in influencing the character of an emerging international community.
