Sentences with phrase «on conscientious»

My identity, both personally and creatively is based on conscientious living, authenticity of experience and comfort within myself... I truly believe that is the «real» path towards happiness.
Small works are not studies, but rather a look into the restrictive process of decision making on a conscientious scale, resulting in poignant, meaningful gestures.
Sterritt *** Tragedy ensues when a well - to - do woman starts cheating on her conscientious husband with a flighty intellectual she's met by chance.
There are a number of other campaigns we work on that are ethical in nature but that we classify as falling elsewhere in our campaigns work, for instance our work around same - sex and humanist marriage and on conscientious objection.
However, it is fair to say that their energies have been focused on conscientious objection to war more than on the abolition of war.
The doctrine of the necessary conformity of civil law to moral truth imposes on conscientious citizens of a regime that authorizes the killing of the unborn and infirm a clear obligation of resistance.

Not exact matches

Yields on Greek debt soared and, since 2009, Greece has relied on on the largesse of the rest of the Eurozone, most notably financially conscientious Germany, to remain solvent.
Parcel recipients who heretofore have wondered how to dispose of clingy polystyrene peanuts without unleashing them on the environment will find a conscientious taker in Mail Boxes Etc., a 1,200 - store shipping service that reuses them.
«I'm seeing much more conscientious decisions being made around «I will take this on for this time line or this goal.»»
In another study conducted by psychologists Jane Vignovic and Lori Foster Thompson that focused solely on electronic communication, writers of the message were found to «be less conscientious, intelligent and trustworthy when the message contained many grammatical errors.»
Saudi women «are very productive, very conscientious, and very much on time.
He now sees a strong business case for hiring women: «They are very productive, very conscientious, and very much on time... We're looking for more.»
In addition, even the most conscientious of users can be deceived on Cyber Monday.
Although Gladwell barely touches on business, David and Goliath is full of ego boosts for the entrepreneurial crowd, who are told, for example, that innovators are open, conscientious, and willing to court disapproval.
Perfectionists — some of the most conscientious people on the job — can have a hard time with this one.
But perhaps more importantly, the addition of our corporate responsibility message helps us shine a spotlight on the festival's foundationally conscientious approach to responsible drinking.»
Nix shows how psychographically categorized voters can be differently addressed, based on the example of gun rights, the 2nd Amendment: «For a highly neurotic and conscientious audience the threat of a burglary — and the insurance policy of a gun.»
Nobody wants to be a salesman of products anymore, the most creative and conscientious brokers have left the «system» for the freedom of RIAland, where they can work only on their clients» behalf.
Yet it is government - created backlogs and delays and tight new rules that are the problem here, even if that very government has pointed the finger at its own employees on occasion to cover up its poor decision - making, and gone after conscientious whistle - blowers who object to being ordered to treat EI claimants unfairly.
Like all mainline Protestant denominations, United Methodism finds itself challenged on its traditional position on sexual morality by the emergence of the conscientious conviction that gay and lesbian relationships are a legitimate expression of God's good and diverse creation.
A skillful and conscientious historian, he looks back on the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in order to document a failure of theological method.
In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.
These positions were consistent with the support for conscientious - objector status, for they felt that removing clergy exemption would force clergy to clearer expression of their convictions on the issue (February 1, 1967).
Comparable reports on issues of current concern would be received gratefully by many conscientious laypeople who, quite understandably, ignore current denominational literature and imperatives.
The statement says that Christian tradition contains an emphasis on respect for free conscientious judgment where the individual has seriously weighed the issues involved.
The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.
Robert is on the board of Quaker House of Fayetteville, a group that works with conscientious objectors in the military.
He's on the board of Quaker House of Fayetteville, a group that works with conscientious objectors in the military, and works with Urban Ministries of Durhamand The Metta Center.
I have a real problem with this — the idea that a «Conscientious Objector» has to base their objection on a religious doctrine.
One is that a lot of conscientious laymen feel guilty when they don't have the name «Jesus Christ» on their lips, and their teachers have not helped them to understand any better.
Consequently, when I see people reading an article or a news item on Israel, I react like a conscientious parent whose only child has developed an addiction to junk food; I want to sneak a few vitamins into the soft drinks and candy bars.
On the other hand, it is a mark of mature democracy when provisions are made for exempting conscientious objectors from military conscription.
Conscientious voters will keep this» and the Democratic Party platform's endorsement of gay marriage» in mind on Nov. 6.
There is a recognition that a conscientious evangelism program depends on making what have been rather inchoate dreams more explicit and more a matter of conscious planning in which many people participate.
On one side would be all evidences of the war: conscientious chronicling of its main events — especially where religion had a bearing — coupled with articles and editorials on issues of war and peacOn one side would be all evidences of the war: conscientious chronicling of its main events — especially where religion had a bearing — coupled with articles and editorials on issues of war and peacon issues of war and peace.
In November 2007, the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) published Committee Opinion # 385 entitled, «The Limits of Conscientious Refusal in Reproductive Medicine.»
The writers of the report are, perhaps, most disturbed by the fact that «even when legal, abortion is often prevented or delayed by obstacles to the access of appropriate services, such as the widespread use of conscientious objection, medically unnecessary waiting periods or biased counselling»; and calls on Member States to «regulate and monitor the use of conscientious objection in the key professions, so as to ensure that reproductive healthcare is guaranteed as an individual's right.»
The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).
So eager is the Liberal Party of Canada to become the Party of Death that its majority on the Special Committee on Physician - Assisted Dying (PDAM) has recommended to Parliament a euthanasia regime open even to mature minors and to the mentally ill, and requiring effective referral from conscientious objectors.
For these reasons, I see the coming encounter and dialogue between humanism and theism not as the occasion for sour - tempered vendettas, but as another of those recurring interludes in the history of the race when the search for truth pits conscientious antagonists on the battleground of human thought.
It was a challenging time to become a conscientious Catholic, for racism and slavery were still rampant, inequality and injustice was on the increase, and anti-Catholicism was everywhere.
Louis Fisher surveys the full sweep of U.S. history» from colonial debates about religious liberty to modern judicial, legislative, and executive positions on the status of conscientious objection, compulsory flag salutes, school prayer, Indian religious practices, and the religious use of peyote.
Reflecting on this piece of hermeneutical legerdemain, a First Things editorial called «The End of Democracy» wondered «whether we have reached or are reaching the point where conscientious citizens can no longer give moral assent to the existing regime.»
It is just barely possible that some who can not abide any statement by a Catholic bishop might listen to conscientious Catholic laypersons on the question of abortion and Catholic officeholders.
Conscientious Catholic politicians will sometimes differ on the best way to translate principle into law.
«On September 11th, let's show that we can rise above prejudice and hatred and be the kind of conscientious citizens who give back to our country by through a national «Muslim Serve» campaign,» the materials continue.
By insisting on the right of conscientious dissent, the churches have helped to preserve our democratic freedoms.
Philosophically speaking, the virtuous life is regarded as the life worth living (the life lived well, or rightly); and so it seems fitting to conclude this summary of Lumen Fidei on the note struck at the outset; namely, that in this encyclical one finds the sort of word on which one can rely — a word one might expect, in fact, from a conscientious father such as we have had in both popes with which the Lord has graced our times.
The fallacy that the churches and «conscientious objector» employers are foisting on the public is, the right to be free to choose or not choose, is intended to be a right of the people.
Imagine you've just read Plato's Republic and then — conscientious citizen that you've now become — you enter a Chicago voting booth on election day and scan the list of candidates.
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