She also makes a conscious effort to keep up with her relatives.
"There was a conscious attempt to keep foreign workers out," says Connolly.
"They made the conscious decision to keep that from the public.
I admire this conscious effort to keep themselves and their people alive in the world, but I am wary too.
And many parents make a conscious decision to keep their children playing indoors, where they can stay clear of traffic, pollution and street crime.
The Cooper Union made a conscious decision to keep its neighbors updated and to collect feedback from them as its building plans progressed.
"It's a conscious decision to keep quiet," said Jakob von Weizsäcker, an economist at Bruegel, an economic policy research institute in Brussels, who used to work for the economics ministry in Berlin.
In a conscious attempt to keep it all fun and light-hearted, Blizzard say players won't see their opponent's names during Pet Battles, nor will they be able to taunt them via chat channels.
Bradley is careful not to wade too deep into the debate over criticism Jurgen Klinsmann's has recently faced as his successor, explaining his conscious decision to keep a distance from US soccer matters.
When I asked Chu if there was a conscious decision to keep Hearthstone grounded in the physical world, though he said that if anything, the team had been fighting to ensure the opposite.
