Sentences with phrase «voting against their conscience»

«Because of you, because you were my friend, I was now brave enough to stand up to those around me that pushed me to vote against my conscience, against you.

Demonstrating how thoroughly progressive thought — as defined by Abramson — has shattered classical liberalism in Canada's medical ranks, 79 percent of the Canadian Medical Association doctors recently voted against conscience protections for physicians opposed to participation in euthanasia.

Nevertheless, David Cameron said many Labour MPs felt a «conscientious belief that they signed up to a manifesto», and asked if it was right to ask them to vote against their consciences.

Many of those who vote for it are voting against their conscience and for party unity.

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SEC members voted to remove the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage is a «union of one man and one woman», replacing it with a clause which asserts that clergy who do not wish to preside over same - sex weddings will not be compelled to do so «against their conscience».

«If anyone votes against that resolution or tries to veto it, that should be on their conscience,» Mr Cameron warned yesterday.

'' «Our appeal is to all MPs of conscience: join us, vote against these unfair and unworkable changes and force the government to think again,» he told delegates at the Scottish Labour party's conference in Oban.

«I can not in good conscience be assured that what we're going to see later is acceptable,» said Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat from the Bronx who voted against all four bills.

«Sen. Hartley, like the 18 other senators who voted against Malloy's flawed pick to lead our judicial system, voted her conscience.»

«The Log Cabin Republicans announced Tuesday that the GOP's New York leadership in both the state senate and assembly are going to allow Republican legislators to make «conscience votes» on Gov. David Paterson's marriage - equality bill rather than pressuring party members to vote against it, giving the legislation a much stronger likelihood of picking up Republican votes in both chambers.

The group has been handing out pamphlets to jurors which basically say that the jurors should vote with their conscience and not feel pressured into voting against what they believe.

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.