conscience
Example Sentences
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Together, these incidents illustrate how the Winter Olympics have become a platform not just for athletic achievement, but also for public expressions of conscience.
From Salon
As police helicopters buzzed overhead monitoring the demonstration nearby, the archbishop called on God to “awaken again the conscience of Americans.”
From Los Angeles Times
That coaster originally came with a nobler purpose, which is why I keep it handy and in plain sight as a prod to my own civic conscience.
That first night I slept on it the nightmare came back, as if my conscience wouldn’t permit me to find rest while my mates still suffered.
From Literature
They believe in an enlightened, secular Islam compatible with freedom of conscience and civil equality.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
