adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral/ethical dimension
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The book discusses the ethical dimension involved in genetic engineering.
a moral/ethical question (= one relating to principles of what is right and wrong )
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This area of medical research poses serious ethical questions that doctors alone cannot answer.
a moral/ethical/political etc dilemma
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Doctors face a moral dilemma over how long to prolong someone's life.
an ethical minefield
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The issue of animal testing is an ethical minefield.
sb's moral/ethical outlook (= beliefs about what is right and wrong )
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Their ethical and moral outlook concerning terrorism is the complete opposite of mine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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In these circumstances it is more ethical to tell the participants about the screen.
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Man was not more ethical then.
■ NOUN
code
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We have embodied the highest possible standards in our ethical codes .
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In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession.
committee
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We are establishing an ethical committee to look at the effects of advanced techniques in animal breeding.
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The study was approved by the local ethical committee .
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All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee .
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Because the technique involves work with genes it must be approved by an independent ethical committee .
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The latter procedure was in agreement with the recommendations from the local ethical committee .
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The study was approved by the local ethical committee and informed consent was obtained from all volunteers.
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Local ethical committee approval was obtained, and all patients had given fully informed consent to the procedures.
concern
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A distinctive feature of the course is the emphasis on ethical concerns and in particular on applied ethics in each year of study.
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No matter how it worked, the idea raises ethical concerns for the medical profession, two physician-legislators said.
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And there are ethical concerns which make the law so important to our society.
consideration
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Bolting is a purely ethical consideration , no more, no less.
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Because of ethical considerations no placebo group was established and it is conceded that this inevitably limits the strength of overall conclusions made.
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As part of its brief, the working party will examine the moral and ethical considerations of launching an advertising campaign.
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On the one hand, there are many topics that could be experimented on that are barred by ethical considerations .
dilemma
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For over a decade I lived with this new knowledge and with the ethical dilemma surrounding my own pursuit of insider research.
dimension
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Secondly, the ethical dimension of reason is apparent in the communicative process of a discipline.
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A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.
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Both these statements have important ethical dimensions , and they require separate analysis.
implication
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Ample discussion of these procedures and the ethical implications should be allowed in the timetable.
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However, removing the stem cells kills the embryo, and therefore has serious ethical implications .
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Both these issues have ethical implications in terms of gaining access to children and in the actual process of data generation.
investment
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First, is it an ethical investment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?
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On Earth, progressive tabernacles called ethical investment schemes have been using currency to support social causes for some time.
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In the past two years ethical investment has developed from a niche market into the mainstream market.
issue
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Are we to teach science but never consider the ethical issues ?
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The ethical issue is on the table now.
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New Genetics, New Food New technology is already raising ethical issues for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
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Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.
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The ethical issue therefore reduces to that dealt with above.
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Two, can you come up with some moral principle, some ethical issue that is so important it justifies deception?
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Contrary to a lawyer's yen for neatness there are few unambiguous signposts for modern medics facing this or many other ethical issues .
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The nature of its relationship to the poor is perhaps the most vexing ethical issue that Holy Trinity faces.
lapse
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For those members to support Gingrich after his ethical lapses became such big news is the ultimate in loyalty.
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None of what has been said suggests that we should ignore ethical lapses or law-breaking by public figures.
principle
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In Porto Alegre and Montevideo the left is proposing and practising a new set of ethical principles and political values.
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For Ross the most important method is that of testing ethical principles by reflective intuition.
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But what ethical principles should guide the allocation of resources?
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They stem from an inadequate analysis of the legal and ethical principles involved.
problem
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If criminal activities are clearly involved, then the researcher has an ethical problem .
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Some people feel that as a result of these ethical problems , the speaker and the president will be driven to compromise.
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Briant's work throws up considerable ethical problems that must be explored.
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One result of voter passiveness Nov. 5 was the return to office of two leaders with highly advertised ethical problems .
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Britain is considering the ethical problems and has yet to authorise the research.
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Both the first lady and the speaker have serious and unresolved legal and ethical problems that fuel the fury of their opponents.
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We did not find it feasible, however, because of potential ethical problems , to collect bile from such a patient group.
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This, not his ethical problems , caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.
question
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Occasionally - leaving any ethical questions aside - taped evidence can help to settle a point in dispute.
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But a larger ethical question hung in the thick, tropical air.
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I submit that there are logistical, financial, and indeed ethical questions to be addressed first.
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And because sperm now can be extracted after death, doctors must address the ethical questions raised by the lack of permission.
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Apart from the ethical questions , the costs of these measures are disproportionate to any public health benefits.
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Looked at this way, the question of how best to safeguard Venice's heritage is in fact an ethical question.
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At the heart of all these issues lie ethical questions .
reason
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As a result of these findings Glaxo stopped clinical trials comparing ranitidine with omeprazole for ethical reasons .
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This is not possible for obvious ethical reasons .
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Plundering enroute was forbidden, probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons .
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For ethical reasons , experimental proof of direct person-to-person transmission is not feasible.
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Thorough examination including endoscopy with biopsy of asymptomatic patients, however, is hardly conceivable because of ethical reasons .
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Comparative politics, in particular, can not use experimentation for both practical and ethical reasons .
standard
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It requires the highest ethical standards and immense skill.
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The ethical standards of Wall Street have to be monitored at all levels.
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As well as the physical provisions, certain moral and ethical standards had to be met in order to gain eternity.
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They appealed to the selfless moral and ethical standards we like to believe we possess.
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The Finance Houses Association were also anxious to ensure that collection practices conformed to the highest ethical standards .
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Only 19 percent of the respondents gave lawyers high marks for maintaining honest and ethical standards .
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It does however represent an ethical standard which the press should be reluctant to infringe other than for reasons of genuine public interest.
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He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings.
statement
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A route must be led, on sight, without clipping the bolt, to make an ethical statement .
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Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way, any more than a command can be.
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Attitude, then, can be inconsistent with attitude, and ethical statement with ethical statement.
system
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And from this stems the origin of ethical systems governing behaviour.
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Sen claims it is essentially a matter of which variable is given priority that separates the major ethical systems and ideologies.
value
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What about Marxists' own morality, or ethical values ?
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Hold your market system accountable by standing your ethical values up against your healthcare costs.
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It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society.
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The Civil and Political Rights Covenant is rooted in western legal and ethical values .
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Am I to base my ethical values on the warmth and nature of my social relations?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Emmanuel Hospital is devoted to quality care and high ethical standards.
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Is it ethical to use this drug to control patients' behaviour?
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It would not be ethical for me, as a doctor, to talk to you about my patients.
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There is only one ethical way to carry out this experiment.
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This type of advertisement may be legal, but is it ethical ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And from this stems the origin of ethical systems governing behaviour.
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Considered the moral consequences of our conduct, and weighed the ethical choices that it necessarily demands?
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For Ross obligatoriness or rightness, as a property of possible actions, is the most basic ethical property or relation.
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In his more positive ethical viewpoint Butler tries to give sense to the old opinion that one should live according to nature.
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She has such integrity, such an ethical , high-minded view of what the human spirit can attain.
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The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.