Sentence examples for tougher ethics from inspiring English sources

The candidates will also be asked to sign pledges committing themselves to tougher ethics rules and constraints on government spending.

Instead, he issued calls for tougher ethics oversight, the abolition of programs he called wasteful and a cap on state spending, often drawing on Biblical language.

The New York City Bar Association agrees with "Three Men in a Room" (editorial, April 9), about Albany's desperate need for tougher ethics laws after public review of working drafts.

These days, they are far more angry with Mr. Paterson, who has sought to blame lawmakers, especially in the Senate, for delays in closing the state's budget gap and for failing to move quickly on tougher ethics laws.

And in a break from Mr. Spitzer, who sought to set an example while pushing for tougher ethics rules, Mr. Cuomo said he would not impose unilateral limits on his own fund-raising.

Eliot L. Spitzer, the attorney general in New York who is threatening to render the commission's efforts irrelevant by imposing tougher ethics requirements on Merrill Lynch and others, called the new rules inadequate.

In 2005, however, after years of embarrassing scandals, the state passed some of the toughest ethics laws in the country.

Captions proclaim his accomplishments ("Balanced Budget," "Reformed Welfare," "Reduced Debt") and plans ("Franks Reforms" -- "Initiative and Referendum," "Tough Ethics Standards").

Even if tough ethics bar the service of a lobbyist with valuable expertise, "so be it," he said.

The second, running 30 seconds, is called "Toughest" and describes him as having passed the "toughest ethics law yet" against lobbyists and special interests.

With new powers to let citizens make laws through initiative and referendum, and tough ethics standards to take influence away from special interests.