conscience

“In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” Biden said.

At some point, maybe my conscience will get the better of me, and I’ll switch over to their diet.

Her generation was inculcated to cozy up to men in power and treat younger women like competition or pets; she keeps her conscience as compartmentalized as a box of fishing tackle.

"I could not in good conscience approve an export that would perpetuate the treatment these belugas have endured," she said.

"No-one wants to be the person that removes the shark nets and then there's a fatal attack straight after. You don't want that on your conscience."