The word
conscience refers to a person's inner sense of right and wrong, and it guides their actions and decisions. It is like a little voice inside our minds that helps us determine if something is good or bad.
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But on the whole we have also respected the freedom
of conscience of our members and encouraged their personal development.
Alas being a good and decent person myself I could not in
good conscience act in such a cruel manner.
In doing so, it would both protect and extend the principle of freedom of
conscience in a way which ought to command a broad consensus.
Defensive driving has to do with driving
with conscience regardless of the situations around you.
The very individuals who have done so much to renew the
social conscience of the evangelical community have also been those who have rejected politics as a means of fulfilling social obligation.
That's the beauty of free votes
on conscience issues, which our party has always respected.
I think that the best way to approach this problem is to promote liberty of
conscience for people of all faiths.
We learned recently that he is developing an environmental
conscience as well.
Or shall we take the opposite course and outrage
conscience by supporting a wicked government in the interests of stability?
This recipe was highly requested and I've had a
guilty conscience about not posting it for a month now.
Then you can have a good
conscience about submitting your resume and won't run into these issues later on.
What happens to the individual
conscience when it's suddenly a member of a mass movement?
We, too, need to nurture and support maturity of
individual conscience in the pursuit of worldly vocation.
There remains a third answer to the distribution question, based on a deliberate acceptance of the demands of the
moral conscience of man.
Therefore, they adopt a dog and leave it there to wander possibly day and night and keep a
clean conscience thinking that their dog is getting enough exercise and mental stimulation.
I am now being asked to work overtime hours in the following week - but I don't think I can in good
conscience do so (I need the extra time).
For our culture to change, it must change one heart, one soul, and one
conscience at a time.
I can't in good
conscience tell you those things won't happen, because they do.
Indeed one wonders how much longer scientific investigation and technology can survive without a more fully
developed conscience on the part of scientists.
Due your due diligence I say, and go to bed at night resting easy with a clear
conscience because you did so.
An unjust law, however, «is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law,» and therefore has no binding power over
human conscience.
An Article 36 review can not tell us if it is acceptable to the
public conscience for a machine to kill without meaningful human control.
It is also what leads to a deep examination of
conscience which is the intellect.
It is possible that the present issues for
conscience over the use of nuclear weapons have no precedent in human history.
But having one's
religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.
An extremely poorly
formed conscience might, after all, tell someone that he ought to kill every left - handed person he met.
I would probably argue along those lines with respect to the freedom of
conscience clause as well.
You can construct a liberal argument for this, saying that you are protecting the right of individual to withhold their labour according to their own
personal conscience.
I also noted, that the students who were really able to
make conscience decisions regarding food, had support.
Most are modestly priced and the city with typical Canadian civic pride and social
conscience also makes many of its permanent attractions free including open air cinema shows and walking tours.
They are a business that attracts people who are too weak to obey their own god
given conscience.
«When we have the unanswered legal questions, I can not vote with a clear
conscience before knowing whether something is legal or illegal,» he said.
They will happily fire anyone whose
conscience gets in the way of their simple clear - cut mission.
As a Catholic, I would find it hard to believe that an
informed conscience would produce the work she has written, but it is theoretically possible, I suppose.
These movies center on people
whose conscience ultimately short - circuits their drive for power.
Moreover, the implementation itself keeps the importance of following rules and procedures in the
national conscience.
While I can't in good
conscience say I loved it, I can see why people would.
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