Conscience
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480 examples of Conscience in a sentence
Major central banks’ fixation on inflation betrays a guilty
conscience
for serially falling short of their targets.
On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood, thought to be the single strongest opposition group in Egypt, are urging their followers to caste ballots and vote their
conscience
but not to give support to any ‘despotic, corrupt rulers.’
Israelis are struggling to comprehend why five million refugees and 200,000 deaths in Syria mean so much less to the Western
conscience
than the 2,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza.
A non-believer is safe from the fires of Hell, the pope assures us, as long as the non-believer listens to his or her own
conscience.
These are his exact words: “Listening [to] and obeying [one’s conscience] means deciding about what is perceived to be good or to be evil.”
Our
conscience
is enough.
Snowden claims that he acted according to his conscience, to protect “basic liberties for people around the world.”
Perhaps in a secular age ethical behavior has no other basis than one’s own
conscience.
And that is why Snowden’s
conscience
drove him to share government secrets with us all.
It is hard to listen to one’s
conscience
when one is faced with so much incredible temptation.
Amnesty began identifying “prisoners of conscience” – people imprisoned for peacefully expressing their political, religious, or other conscientiously held beliefs, or for their cultural identity – all over the world.
Our work went beyond trying to free individual prisoners of
conscience
and has included efforts to end armed conflicts, such as in Central America in the 1980s, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and in the Middle East today, or at least to mitigate the harm they wrought.
What is peculiar about populist politicians is that they can do so openly and with a clean
conscience.
The 12-year-old child's lunchbox blasted at Hiroshima, preserved by chance, with its rice and peas charred by the atomic explosion, weighs as much on our
conscience
as the Enola Gay .
Only if one musters the courage to envision the bomber and the lunchbox at the same time is it possible to comprehend the tragic vision of history that Hiroshima -- like other episodes that have seared our modern
conscience
-- most clearly represents.
He also believes that conditions in Africa are "a scar on the
conscience
of the world," and has established a Commission for Africa that will report to the G8.
Our media’s preoccupation with trivia – and collective lack of
conscience
– is impressive even by British tabloid standards.
What is dividing the Church is the return, thanks to the apparently final global triumph of democracy, of an ancient Catholic debate, with inherited moral teachings pitted against a faith supported by reason, the individual's conscience, and the personal pursuit of truth.
Centuries later, the French Revolution provided liberty of
conscience
and religion across France.
Its first article declares that the Republic certifies liberty of
conscience
and “guarantees the free practice of worship under the sole restrictions enacted (…) by the interest of the public order.”
Latin America is watching Lula's attempt to bring a social
conscience
to modern economic policies with hope and trepidation.
The prohibition against a state religion together with freedom of
conscience
preserves the plurality of religion in civil life.
The ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, took an important step on January 20, when she issued a statement reminding Nigeria’s government of its obligation to prosecute Boko Haram’s leaders for crimes that “deeply shock the
conscience
of humanity.”
Nonetheless, the FFP campaigners may eventually get Wendy’s to sign on – making that tomato slice a little tastier for customers with a
conscience.
The public increasingly acts as the
conscience
of companies and industries, asking hard questions and holding them to account.
Besides, working in Beijing is itself a constant struggle of
conscience
and compromise.
First, Obama did not openly criticize the Chinese government’s notorious human rights record, nor did he use his influence to persuade China to release any prisoner of conscience, as his US predecessors always did when visiting the country.
What united prisoners of
conscience
in the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's was the faith that one day their countries would find their place in a united Europe.
One rule of thumb, offered 70 years ago by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz, is that those who advance an idea have an obligation to “their
conscience
and their God” to be sincere about it.
Likewise, the defense by Malaysian civil reform movements of individuals’ freedom of
conscience
has been denounced by some religious leaders as an attack on Islam.
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