Ministers and civil servants care about social justice, but they would never consciously undermine excellence.
The capital markets game depends on transparency and fair play — both of which Smith claims are consciously undermined at his ex-employer.
True, some of those objecting to new growth may be too concerned with preserving the past, but many others, including some in Los Angeles, have rightly concluded that the region's once splendid quality of life is being consciously undermined by planners, politicians and their real estate paymasters.
Since its adoption in1973, the spirit and, we now know, the legal mandate of the Act has been consciously challenged, undermined, dismissed, dodged or violated in an on-going erosion of Congress' constitutional authority.
It is hard to fathom how much longer they can keep doing the same thing, or where they can take their self-consciously limited sound without undermining the reasons people like them.
Unless development projects and campaigns consciously seek to undermine that exclusion, they will fail to remove people from slavery – and consequently from poverty.
If my friend Sharon is any hint, I'd say the former, though to be sure, there are depressed people who consciously or unconsciously undermine their job prospects.
Individuals, communities, races, nations all can experience jealousy and all can consciously or unconsciously undermine those who seem to have more of something.
He was also a bourgeois liberal, and self-consciously so, in a time of great transformations that were undermining the social conditions necessary to support classical liberal values and bourgeois institutions, thereby challenging liberalism to attempt a radical self-redirection.
The work shows how our unconscious biases can undermine our consciously held beliefs.
