Sentences with phrase «personal conscience»

The party seeks to prevent my candidacy in the next European election merely for taking a stand on matters of personal conscience.

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.

A good politician can separate personal conscience from public policy.

Whether or not we should be breeding dogs with such long backs is of course a matter of opinion, and a matter for your own personal conscience.

Grades 9 - 12 Lesson: Arthur Miller and The Crucible This lesson examines the consequences of personal conscience in conflict with rigid societal perceptions of what is «right» in human behavior as articulated in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

It's not a matter left for personal conscience or the influence of popular culture and, per Barnes, has nothing to do with protecting the church from women.

As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, head of the Protestant Churches of Russia, and several other evangelical leaders called the law a violation of religious freedom and personal conscience in a letter to Putin posted on the Russian site Portal - Credo.

The exodus was led by Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier who resigned Monday from a manufacturing council, saying, «As C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism.»

«As C.E.O. of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against extremism,» Frazier said.

Merck experienced significant increases in positive consumer perception in the days following Frazier's resignation from Trump's manufacturing council over what he called a matter of «personal conscience,» according YouGov BrandIndex, a firm that tracks public opinions about brands.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

Several members have made the decision to leave President Trump's White House Manufacturing Advisory Council, and I respect their decision as a matter of personal conscience.

The dispute over the panels began on Monday, when Merck & Co.'s Kenneth Frazier took a public stand against Trump, saying that quitting the manufacturing council was «matter of personal conscience» and said that U.S. leaders had to reject «hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.»

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

Ultimately, I think it comes down to your personal conscience.

When lost in a crowd, personal conscience is often ignored in all the hype and adrenalin and nasty things get done that would not have happened otherwise.

Society, then, is the total human framework within which men administer control and direction to each other from God, acknowledged and loved in their personal consciences.

Confession of faith is a personal thing, and it is a matter of personal conscience.

Christians who dare to turn down business on the basis of their personal conscience are modern day Klan members, and churches teaching anything other than complete sexual liberation are the 21st century equivalent of the KKK.

Further compounding these consequences in India and elsewhere, has been the fact that conversion and baptism, though fundamentally consequences of the exercise of personal conscience have assumed marked social and political overtones and repercussions which have enhanced «communalistic «tendencies both within and outside the Church.

A responsible new ethic must certainly take into account the primacy of personal conscience and of women's experience, as well as the effects and consequences of reproductive choices on the common good.

This reflects the fact that MPs are often faced with conflicting pressures, such as the party leadership, constituency, and personal conscience, when making political decisions.

«I think this is really an issue that is personal, personal conscience and as I've said all along, members will vote the way they wish to vote,» he said.

«I've concluded that as a matter of personal conscience, I can not vote in favor of dedicating more funds to vaccine research that has already been undertaken and which I and many others find conclusive,» her message read.

Vote your personal conscience.»

In 1963, Stanley Milgram's experiments were among the first to show how «normal» people can be easily persuaded to commit cruel acts that conflict with their personal conscience when directed to do so by an authority figure.

Spite Your Face illuminates the power dynamics of our globalised world, exposing relationships between morally bankrupt public figures, aggressive consumerism, sexual power, personal conscience, and... noses.

Personal conscience (My conscience is my primary guide, regardless of laws or customs or what others want.)