screening of candidates

One of the many areas controlled by the mullahs is the screening of candidates.

The system would include screening of candidates' judicial qualifications, which supporters call "merit selection."

"There was no screening of candidates at all.

"Not only are they sharpening their salary pencils, but the screening of candidates is probably the toughest it has ever been."

Swiss Guards have to pass a physical and undergo military training at the Vatican, but there is no psychological screening of candidates.

All the careful screening of candidates, all the training and supervision, is intended to prepare them for the instant that a mundane encounter turns deadly.

They talked about ways to prevent further abuse, including having the bishops keep one another accountable, better screening of candidates for the priesthood and improving the curriculum in Catholic seminaries.

He described that damage as difficulty in recruiting priests and maintaining an esprit de corps, and he said he believed that psychological screening of candidates for the priesthood made abuse less likely nowadays.

But other church officials say a seminary review is unnecessary because most of the abusive priests who have surfaced in news reports were trained in the seminaries of old, long before there was psychological screening of candidates.

Responding to reports that substitute teachers who repeatedly mistreat children are regularly rehired, Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew said yesterday that he would form a central office to conduct thorough screenings of candidates for the jobs.

On January 23, 2013, Passaic County GOP Chairman John Traier conducted a screening of candidates for county sheriff at the Grand Chalet Restaurant in Wayne, New Jersey.

The prospects looked promising: in October, after a screening of candidates by a school-based committee and a series of interviews by a districtwide committee, Mr. Albano was one of two candidates proposed for the job.

Before he became pope, Cardinal Ratzinger had already indicated his prescription for addressing sexual abuse in the church: more careful screening of candidates to the priesthood and better "formation," especially when it comes to preparing priests for celibate lives.

The Communist Party still maintains a firm monopoly on the making of broader Government policy, and a central role in the screening of candidates, assuring that no election will become a referendum on, say, Mr. Gorbachev's anti-drinking campaign.

By the late 1980's, many Catholic seminaries and dioceses began psychological screening of candidates for the priesthood, said Sister Katerina Schuth, a sociologist at St. Paul's Seminary at the University of St. Thomas.

But Assembly Democrats say they are wary because the last time they consented to such a plan - in 1986 when 23 new judgeships were created - the Governor and the Senate simply divided up the judgeships with little or no screening of candidates.

Professor Gerhardt, the author of "The Federal Appointment Process" (Duke University, 2001), said that the screening of candidates will not depend so much on the answers given to general questions about philosophy but on other indicators "like the kinds of causes people have been involved with.

But Mr. Shorris has been proselytizing for their salvational potential for some years, and earlier this month The New York Times reported that his initial 1995 class, which was created after intensive screening of candidates, has now become a model for a five-year multistate program run by Bard College.

"But having a well-known lobbyist involved in the recruitment and screening of candidates for such an influential position raises serious questions, like how does the future chief of staff deal with a request from the Parkside Group if that lobbyist or firm helped that very same chief of staff get his or her job?