ethical stance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofethicalandstance
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ethical
adjective
uk/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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stance
noun[C]
uk/stɑːns/us/stæns/
a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly ...
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(Definition ofethicalandstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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How are we to understand theethicalstanceof this narrator, and how might that stance affect the genre of the tale?
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Rather, the way we are engaged in the world - and the type ofethicalstancewhich results from this - determines what we take to be absolute.
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For example, if a person'sethicalstancewas stored in some brain circuits, it should one day be possible to change those judgments by changing the circuits.
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Survey evidence indicates that theethicalstanceadopted by management is important when explaining workers' sense of job satisfaction.
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Anethicalstanceinvolves not a kind of intellectual comprehension - something that involves relative value judgements - but an entirely non-verbal, non-articulative apprehension of the world as a whole.
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Herethicalstanceemerges from a process of self-questioning and reflection: acknowledging the paradox and inhabiting its contradictions produce a critical writing that supplements the creative process.
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It has done much, in a variety of ways, to establish a moreethicalstancefor financial services organisations—and the word "co-operative" is central to its activities.
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At its broadest, the life style includes self-concept, the self-ideal (or ego ideal), anethicalstanceand a view of the wider world.
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When a group desired a certain state of affairs, he argued, it might alter the attitudes fundamental to itsethicalstance.
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Qibla'sethicalstancemanifested itself in the company's pledge to donate 10% of its net profits to humanitarian causes around the world.
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The company differentiated itself and its products from its rivals by making anethicalstancein all its operations including giving 10% of its profits to worthy charitable causes.
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What was left - the grin (or perhaps grimace) after the cat had disappeared - were the ethical stances, the parade of virtue amidst corruption, the foundations of a ' country ' tradition.
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