Sentence examples for conscionable from inspiring English sources

The judge said it "does not warrant, under any conscionable or constitutional basis, a life sentence", but explained: "I have no choice".Clarence Aaron had no rap sheet: he is among the one-fifth of non-violent life-without-parolers in the federal system serving time for a first offence.

But none of these are conscionable grounds for selectively preventing Filipino Amerasians from coming to this country.

But just because dogmatism and division are endemic to many religious zealots does not make them any more conscionable.

"Conscionable self-awareness," she tells us, is a "lifetime lodger".

There is nothing sustainable or conscionable about a system that treats the elderly as liabilities to be shunted between reluctant authorities.

Ogletree told me that he repeatedly wrote letters to Death Row, asking to see the contract Tupac had signed with Death Row in prison and to negotiate a formal contract under more conscionable circumstances; but all his efforts, he said, were "met with silence, diversions, and outright misrepresentations".

Is it conscionable to wait until it's plainly gone?

It has only been in the wake of outspoken mediums like www.lifeormeth.com that the more conscionable among us have felt driven to hold a mirror to the scourge of crystal meth, thereby making its use an unacceptable part of our culture.

And if not — if pragmatism and respect for state sovereignty preclude such a course — was it really conscionable to stand by knowing that the dictatorship of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, showed few signs of caring about the victims of Cyclone Nargis?

There are far better, more conscionable uses for the resources".

Several days later, however, Invesco found it to be conscionable, after all.