Sentence examples for conscious sacrifice from inspiring English sources

(It was a conscious sacrifice).

He's self-conscious, sacrificing for the sake of literary effect the candid impulsivity of a letter meant to be read at the time it was written.

Is Mia making a conscious choice to sacrifice the few for the survival of the rest of the family?

In any case, Irish republicanism was a deliberate, organised and conscious strategy of sacrifice for a national cause.

Because this is where Siegmund turns his back on the warrior's promised reward, resolute yet conscious of the sacrifice.

For everyone who knows this fact, the decision to have children involves a conscious, knowing, deliberate sacrifice of embryos for having children.

But his character makes a conscious choice and sacrifice in the interest of a collective purpose; Jennie is the beneficiary and victim of a cosmic accident (albeit one that the script explains scientifically), winning a sort of lottery for a long-sought miracle that turns out to be a poisoned prize.

SAP acknowledges the wrongdoing and assesses the damage to Oracle at $40m; Mr Ellison told the court this was closer to $4 billion once licence fees were taken into account.The preliminary conclusion of the commission investigating the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico found no evidence to suggest "a conscious decision to sacrifice safety concerns to save money" before the disaster.

Individual people made conscious decisions to sacrifice long-term safety and stability of their companies and therefore the nation by focusing on the formula of their individual enrichment.

Clearly, the Australian government made the conscious choice to sacrifice this amount.

Allen made the conscious decision to "sacrifice some of the laughs for a story about human beings".