conscience
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The best way to do that is to vote your conscience.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
May I suggest a workshop on growing a conscience?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
At the same time the constitutional authority found that certain provisions of the legislation required clarification, including the so-called conscience clause, which allows healthcare professionals to refuse to take part in the procedure.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
A decade later Amnesty International estimated more than 600 prisoners of conscience in the USSR.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago’s conscience, the city it wanted to become.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
But the proposal would let us show how we disagree with each other about our shared political life, and so help direct our collective agency without sacrificing the individual voices of our consciences.
From Slate ● May 11, 2026
The Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, for example, brought together Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish Americans who opposed the war because it violated the nation’s ideals and religious consciences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Ethical issues, such as those around life and death, are conventionally seen as matters for the consciences of individual MPs, so the government does not formally give a position.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
The French film legend says that the most important thing for her about a film "is that it changes lives, changes people's consciences."
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
They drafted a message to the white delegates, calling it a “moral appeal to the hearts and consciences of the people of our State.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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