Sentence examples for conscientious holding from inspiring English sources

Lee Cox, from Swindon, was a conscientious holding midfielder and Ronan Murray, from Ipswich, eager on the right but Jason Banton (Crystal Palace) and especially Reuben Reid (Yeovil) seemed happy to use unfamiliarity as an excuse for holding back.

Its values seem old-fashioned, prewar (which may be one reason it's set a generation before it was written), holding up conscientious slogging as life's greatest virtue and reward.

which has historically held conscientious objections to joining..

That's the case here: much of this work will take place at Battersea Arts Centre in south London, where the trials of the capital's conscientious objectors were held during the first world war.

It should also be said that, in the history of mankind, only liberal democracies have ever done such things — held conscientious post-hoc court proceedings in which the state arraigns itself for its own injustices.

For years they have pretended to be environmentally conscientious while they held one of the oil industry's worst records when it came to worker safety and environmental protection.

And a similar trend held with conscientious objectors.

Not all thin letters are all bad, and this is the reason conscientious parents sometimes casually hold their children's' mail up to the light.

Prosecutors said he had gone AWOL from Fort Campbell, Ky., about two months after he was charged with possessing child pornography, putting on hold his request for conscientious objector status.

In a no-nonsense statement reaffirming its stance, the union said Warwick's position was adopted with full knowledge of its board and that it continued to support "the right of any midwife to hold a position of conscientious objection".

He stressed that an applicant would have to prove that he was sincere in his pacifist beliefs and that he had held them before applying for conscientious objector status.