ethically

ethical | Business English

ethical
adjective
 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYuk /ˈeθɪkəl/us
morally right:
ethical behaviour/conductThe awards recognize companies, individuals, and nonprofit organizations for ethical behavior.
ethical practice/trading
Is it ethical to recruit healthcare workers from developing countries experiencing shortages?
relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong:
a consultant on legal and ethical issues
the ethical dilemmas surrounding genetic research

ethically

adverb/ˈeθɪkli/
Many ethically minded investors would think twice before funding an industry known for misleading ads.

Examples of ethical

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The philosophical concept of dependent moral status thus makes a crucial appeal to the ethical principle of beneficence.
It advocates a new, more (patient) protective model which should generate confidence in the ethical character of contemporary innovatory practices.
Critics have assumed that they do not play with ethical boundaries or recast symbolic definitions.
Ethical and spiritual issues were thoughtfully tackled, and there was a helpful chapter on the management of physical symptoms.
This is not a straightforward task, since ethical considerations and infrequency of actual shoulder dystocia deliveries limit prospective, comparative study of various manoeuvres.
The patterns of those acts (patriotic, ethical, altruistic), perhaps supported during their formation by a scaffold of extrinsic reinforcement, must be highly valuable in themselves.
Finally, it is in the interest of employees to have ethical care that respects them as persons - in the full moral sense of the term.
Sharing statistical data in the biomedical and health sciences : ethical, institutional, legal, and professional dimensions.
A really successful ethical consultant should be able to provide some directions for further growth and development.
Should ethical issues in biotechnology research be decided by physicianscientists or by lawyers?
The ethical resources of this society are only now being explored as the concept comes to be debated.
But then these stories, as well as the ethical and policy debates they engender, are soon forgotten by the general public.
As was the case with scientific management, defenders of behavioral psychology made ethical claims, as well as truth claims, in its favor.
Such a revolution would presumably be ' too much at variance ' with one's prior ethical outlook.
There is considerable awareness that these developments pose challenges in every dimension (ethical, political, economic, and clinical) of the health-care environment.
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