Sentence examples for at his conscience from inspiring English sources
When James DeGale arrives back in London today, the gold medal dangling from his neck will be tugging at his conscience.
He had done something twenty years before, when he was a graduate student at U.C.L.A., that had never felt right and that still tugged at his conscience.
He should look straight at his conscience," says Ms. Baez, a plain-spoken, ponytailed woman in her late 50's whose only adornment is a shiny plastic pin on her chest that bears the image of her slain son.
Uma's marriage certificate, which she guards jealously, contains the same wording, and as Wiltshire falls in love with her it gnaws at his conscience sufficiently for him to request a proper marriage by a missionary.
The 1995 massacre of 5,000 unarmed Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica under NATO's watch struck at his conscience, he has said, and in addition to America's strategic national interests — in that case, the future and credibility of NATO — Mr. McCain began to speak more expansively about America's moral obligations as the only remaining superpower.
The princess glanced down at his silk conscience, begging it to help him out.
More than one of these criticisms is pre-empted by the story itself, as the narrator tears at his own conscience: "bleeding heart, bleeding heart, bleeding heart".
The shadow foreign minister said he was quitting because of the way the Labour leader had sacked his colleague Pat McFadden as shadow Europe minister and had "looked at his own conscience" and decided to step down.
He felt most at home, and his conscience was always clearest, when he was negotiating with shady dealers, and among these he recognized two distinct types.
The grandee is pained by "a conscience and no memory at all", but his conscience does not prevent the bodies from piling up as Van Stratten, trawling the European underworld, unwittingly lets loose the century's political monsters along with Arkadin's own intimate ones.
The man who has probably taken more vacations than any other American president, who goes on showy mountain bike rides while his Veterans Administration shamefully mistreats broken warriors, who cut taxes while burdening a generation with this overseas cancer, is at ease with his conscience.
