Sentence examples for conscience and law from inspiring English sources

But blood always leaves a stain, and the mark on our conscience and law will remain until we reckon with the case of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, known to the world as Abu Zubaydah.

Asked about restrictions up to the time of "the head coming out of the womb," General Clark replied: "I say that it's up to the woman and her doctor, her conscience, and law -- not the law.

It said that while they recognize they are making the army's task harder, they believe that in the end, conscience and law must prevail because "there is no security without law".

Thus, in Hegel's most famous example, the tragic conflict between Antigone and Creon in Sophocles' Antigone perfectly embodied the fundamental but as of yet unresolved ethical conflicts between conscience and law, the family and the state, and so on which had arisen implicitly in the intersubjective self-understanding of fifth-century Athens.

He's called into the office of his captain, an intellectual sadist who puts him on the spot, asking him the meaning of words like "conscience," "police," and "law".

The chorus is not the star of this penetrating interpretation of Sophocles's tragedy of individual conscience and public law.

Performed in a modern Greek translation by Nikos Panayotopoulos, Sophocles' play, Mr. Kritas said, "symbolizes the battle between the human conscience and the law or the dictatorship".

Our class, led by Matthew Hart, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, will begin by studying Antigone alongside famous philosophical essays in which it is a test case for conflicts between individual conscience and the law.

"I will vote on this issue," he said, "based on my conscience and the law, not on threats, intimidation or racial slurs". Mr. Washington's supporters have suggested the opposition to the Mayor is racially motivated.

That's true as well of "Little Willie," in which a white country woman discovers a family of escaped slaves hiding in her henhouse and is forced to choose between her conscience and the law.

If the declaration be untrue, it is in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath; as it is one of those cases in which the rule of law must be abandoned, or the oath of the witness be received.