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I would wish that the world were a better place where honest and conscientious public servants were not put in impossible situations such as this.
"Conscientious public officials arrange meetings for constituents, contact other officials on their behalf, and include them in events all the time," Roberts wrote.
That is what a conscientious public servant does, especially when what is at stake is, as Hunt acknowledged, a huge financial transaction carrying serious implications for British democracy.
Matt Dorsey, spokesman for the city attorney's office, said in an e-mail, "The task force has degenerated into a rogue, lawless jury that beats up on city departments and tries to get conscientious public employees fired".
"Although I would wish that the world were a better place where honest and conscientious public servants were not put in impossible situations such as this, I agree that [the director's] decision was lawful".
(Seeing what I call "the conscientious public" making its points, I am a bit more optimistic).
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But he also wanted to emphasize this as a chance for a security-conscientious public to get in on the deal.
Every serious believer and every conscientious person in public office must balance respect for law with the dictates of conscience.
But my favorite is "The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson" (1974), a superb portrait of the last royal governor of Massachusetts, a conscientious but obtuse public servant whose inability to grasp his subjects' resentments led to his becoming the most hated man in the colonies.
It also took the opportunity to forge a split between Johnson and his fellow Brexiteers: "Mr Johnson is not famed for consistency or integrity, but there are other senior Conservatives... the likes of Michael Gove and Michael Howard... who combine sincere Euroscepticism with a conscientious view of public life as entailing responsibilities.
Mr Johnson is not famed for consistency or integrity, but there are other senior Conservatives, cabinet ministers past and present – the likes of Michael Gove and Michael Howard – who, unlike the former mayor of London, combine sincere Euroscepticism with a conscientious view of public life as entailing responsibilities.
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