Sentence examples for conscience issue from inspiring English sources

But asked whether the National party would allow a conscience vote given those beliefs, Joyce told the ABC: "Once it becomes a conscience issue, it remains a conscience issue.

The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said it was a "conscience" issue on which MPs would rightly be given a free vote.

She drafted a letter to the Town Board and said she would resign on July 21, three days before same-sex marriage becomes legal, because she could not in good conscience issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

"This must, however, remain a conscience issue and a free vote". Some campaigners want the limit reduced to 20 weeks, although Cameron's aides stressed that at this stage he was not committing himself to any specific lower time limit.

The Nick Xenophon Team has not determined its position and could split on the ban, because Xenophon has told Guardian Australia it is a "conscience issue" for the party.

Roy asserted that it was a Good Thing - but, clearly, it had not occurred to him there might be another side to it: a freedom of conscience issue, for instance, for those from religious minorities.

Downing Street stressed that David Cameron regarded same-sex marriage, as well as gay adoption, as conscience issues.

Jeremy and I and others will keep on campaigning and arguing the case but we recognise that these are really strong conscience issues," he told the Guardian.

"He never thought he was a message film-maker; just a man who believed very strongly in social conscience issues," said Karen Sharpe Kramer, his wife of 35 years.

It seemed more likely that somebody young like him would have a chance to learn and become more aware of the environmental and social conscience issues.

Mr Birrell's specific criticisms – on what are widely regarded as free-vote conscience issues – are so narrowly drawn that one might be forgiven for not realising that Tim actually voted in favour of the same-sex marriage bill and the right to abortion, and has repeatedly expressed his support for the existing law in both areas.