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One day, Allen decides to go to Cape Cod to enjoy the sea, a place where he feels mysteriously good, but he falls into the sea by accident and since he doesn't know how to swim, is saved by a mysterious and beautiful woman,who runs away soon after Allen recovers his conscience.
I love this sort of movie, but in good conscience cannot give a it a score much higher than 3 because it really is a BAD movie.
Anyways, I voted with my conscience and gave this movie a 1 out of 10.
Along comes a fourth director with no conscience, probably one who makes the Disney tween shows, and he takes all three of the others' work and pastes it together.
He argued that culture – all kinds of knowledge that cultivate a social conscience – could be our salvation.
We aim to tug at the conscience of people everywhere, to provoke others into action.
After all, corporations don't have a conscience; it is only the conscience of those who run the corporation, and as America's recent corporate scandals have made all too clear, conscience often takes a backseat to profits.
More recently, oil companies have demonstrated little conscience in providing money that feeds guerrilla movements--so long as their own interests are preserved.
If corporations had a conscience, they would act, without being forced to do so: they would estimate their profit from the Apartheid system and pay it back to the country, with interest.
So far, there appears to be no rush to make amends in South Africa, and, as elsewhere, the evidence is meager that the corporate conscience runs very deep.
Doing so would highlight the famous case of former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose political ambitions alone landed him in prison, and who has been declared, after a second trial, a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
For the first time in our ancient history, we Ethiopians have voted our conscience.
The plight of so many millions of Roma in the twenty-first century makes a mockery of European values and stains Europe’s conscience.
As Cass Sunstein, commenting on Haffner, put it, “the ultimate safeguard against aspiring authoritarians, and wolves of all kinds, lies in individual conscience.”
A 1983 case held that one way to determine whether a crime meets the “rarest of the rare” requirement is whether the community’s “collective conscience” has been “so shocked” that it expects those wielding judicial power to inflict the death penalty, regardless of their personal opinions.
I could not, in good conscience, side credibly with any French, Italian, or Greek proponent of redistribution if their proposals violated the principles of rectitude.
Devout after a fashion, they follow their conscience or their convenience – their lives a more or less amiable standoff between doctrinal prohibitions and vernacular practice.
The only laws the Western hero respects are those laid down by God and his own conscience.
The statement will be based on consultations with many of Japan’s, and the world’s, leading WWII historians, as well as – and more important – with himself, his conscience, and his heart, because he understands the significance of his words on this highly fraught topic.
Rather than worrying about offending people or losing the next election, she is following the diktat of her conscience.
Unlike most of Hong Kong’s tycoons, who are considered excessively focused on political expedience, Li is viewed as a person of strong conscience and thus worthy of considerable respect.
Bendjedid, whose memoirs were recently published (he died in October), gave Algeria its first relatively democratic constitution, lifting the ban on political parties and guaranteeing a minimum of basic rights, including freedom of speech, assembly, and conscience.
The extension of human rights is a worthy goal, to be sure, but Vasella's saccharine altruism brings to mind economist Milton Friedman's reproachful observation that "businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned 'merely' with profit but also with promoting desirable 'social' ends; that business has a 'social conscience' and takes seriously its responsibilities forproviding employment, eliminating discrimination . . .
At the same time, some of those defending the practice have also pointed to the UDHR, particularly Article 18, which holds that, “everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.”
The Council’s excuse is a smokescreen, and simultaneously kowtows to Chinese totalitarianism and insults those Chinese writers who have been imprisoned, banned, or forced into exile merely for writing what their conscience demands.
In itself, this approach represents a worthy expression of collective conscience in opposition to the terrorists.
Indeed, the committee entered in the sphere of moral conscience by stating that anyone who does not adhere to a positive moral evaluation of homosexuality is unfit to serve as a European commissioner.
If, on the other hand, the European Parliament’s members follow through on the logic of my case – if my shunning becomes the basis for a consistent policy – the EU will be on its way to creating a kind of morality police and launching a modern-day inquisition, one that crassly violates both freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.
That is a task for which non-governmental organizations and protest movements are not well equipped: they can raise public conscience, but they cannot formally commit governments.
What We Owe Refugee ChildrenBEIRUT – Last year, images of desperate refugees, many of them children, stirred our collective conscience and prompted world leaders to take action.
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