Sentence examples for conscience of the community from inspiring English sources

"He has the worldview of a federal judge, not as the conscience of the community as a jury does".

"This blood is now on the conscience of the community supporting Pussy Riot," he told the news agency Interfax on Thursday.

The Eighth Amendment issue before the Court in Simmons will be whether the juvenile death penalty accords with the conscience of the community.

The court reasoned that a jury deciding between life imprisonment and execution is expressing the conscience of the community, and that no jury could do this impartially if persons opposing the death penalty were systematically excluded.

"The prescribed punishment for Timothy McVeigh's crimes includes death if all of the 12 jurors believe it is justified under all the circumstances and exercise their moral judgment as the conscience of the community," the judge said.

This article presents evidence that bears directly on the conscience of the community in juvenile capital cases as revealed through extensive in-depth interviews with jurors who made the critical life-or-death decision in such cases.

"I ask you to act as the conscience of this community and say that this man should not be convicted for conduct that others engaged in and are walking around free for," Krovatin said.

On the back cover there's a blurb from Cynthia Ozick, the novelist and literary conscience of the Jewish community, who compares Reich to Jonathan Swift.

Typically regarded as the paragon of humanitarianism, refugee camps are in fact one of the biggest stains on the conscience of the international community.

And the fruits of this work could yet cause cosmologists to reconsider their new consensus, warned Dr. Peebles of Princeton, who has often acted as the conscience of the cosmological community, trying to put the brakes on faddish trends.

Charles Murigande, of Rwanda's accountability commission, told me, "The international tribunal was created essentially to appease the conscience of the international community, which has failed to live up to its conventions on genocide.