They ranged from indistinct ethical transgressions to more specific references to potential legal concerns facing Harding regarding the attack.
It could also draw attention away from the circumstances that led the House last year to reprimand and fine him for ethical transgressions.
It is never a pleasant matter to sit in judgment on the ethical transgressions of a colleague.
Ricard has opposed use of human embryos for scientific research, saying that it is a grave ethical transgression.
Now, when state employees are under investigation for ethical transgressions, they can simply resign, which has the legal effect of a self-conferred grant of immunity.
Similarly, all should report a serious ethical transgression.
Such violations are among the most common ethical transgressions discovered by the commission.
The commission warned the judge that in view of her disciplinary history "any future ethical transgressions may be met with a more severe sanction."
However, the media has now made ethical transgressions readily public.
Thus her conduct may be insensitivity rather than an ethical transgression.