conscience
Example Sentences
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But I think the story stays for a deeper reason, something that pings on the national conscience—something barely articulable that’s just there, like a cloud we all operate in.
But they cannot extinguish the belief that religion keeps alive: that there is something higher than Caesar’s will, something that commands conscience beyond fear of reprisal or political favor.
He was not alone in trying to navigate between his conscience and the mounting pressures to conform.
"I will carry this sorrow in my conscience," he wrote, asking the victims' mothers for forgiveness.
From Barron's
Shealy spoke of the detriment the bill would have to South Carolinians and their doctors, while Gustafson’s testimony urged legislators to vote their conscience rather than party expectations.
From Salon
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