Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilemma is also much more plausible--and clever. As in the book, he plays both sides off each other. In the movie, however, the gravity of the consequences of full cooperation with the FBI--disbarment, career termination, etc.--are much more vivid, and Mitch's determination to follow his oath as a lawyer while getting free of the firm is powerfully portrayed...
...body was all black and blue from the needle marks. She was in a coma, and she weighed only 70 lbs. Even then I said to the doctor, 'This isn't right, to keep her on IV,' but he shrugged his shoulder and said, 'I'm bound by my oath to do that...
...professions exist today which sustain codes, laws, or oaths that prevent members from engaging in personal relationships of any nature. Doctor's Hippocratic Oath, obliges them to refrain from encounters with their patients. But doctors promise to separate business from pleasure as a universal rule. If the problem of student-teacher relations is so pronounced, then why have individual universities been left to formulate their own policies? Except for clergy required to take vows of chastity, sexual restraint and career occupation rarely coincide. For most jobs, there's no reason that they should...
...last spring, the nation watched as an ostensibly intelligent man purported under oath and with a straight face that he has no personal feeling on abortion. Here was a man so frightened by the poisonous atmosphere created by extremists on both sides of the abortion issue that he looked at 15 senators and hundreds of cameras and said that he did not privately discuss Roe v. Wade even though it was handed down while he was in law school...
However, Ryan says his personal policy has always been to hand over all exculpatory evidence, whether requested or not. He testified under oath last month he does not remember how or if he communicated that policy to his team of prosecutors on the case...