Sentence examples for could conscientiously from inspiring English sources

It is of the essence of the British commercial spirit to push our manufactures into every land where they can be disposed of to advantage; and we have never heard of any impediment to commerce founded upon such a fact as that the moral state of the country with which our interchange of commodities took place was not such as we could conscientiously approve of.

The Vietnam conflict impelled Rawls to analyze the defects in the American political system that led it to prosecute so ruthlessly what he saw as an unjust war, and to consider how citizens could conscientiously resist their government's aggressive policies.

Duveen, who had already decided what he would charge some American customer — a price he could not conscientiously ask for a picture that had cost him a mere eighteen thousand pounds — shouted reproachfully at her, "My dear lady, the very least you should let that picture go for is twenty-five thouSweptpoffds!" Swept off her feet by his enthusiasm, the lady capitulated.

Duveen, who had already decided what he would charge some American customer — a price he could not conscientiously ask for a picture that had cost him a mere eighteen thousand pounds — shouted reproachfully at her, "My dear lady, the very least you should let the picture go for is twenty-five thouSweptpoffds!" Swept off her feet by his enthusiasm, the lady capitulated.

As early as 1958, he resigned from the Labour frontbench as No 2 spokesman on defence because party policy then favoured the H-bomb "and I could not conscientiously be the spokesman of a policy with which I was in disagreement".

Defending the church is Paul Collins, a former Catholic priest who quit in February 2001 because he could "no longer conscientiously subscribe to the policies and theological emphases coming from the Vatican".

In this first of his trials, Proudhon escaped conviction because the jury conscientiously found that they could not clearly understand his arguments and therefore could not condemn them.

The Olympic committees talk of regeneration, but what could be more regenerative than a conscientiously managed plot?

It could be that while the ones conscientiously updating their customers as to their status are not playing the criminals' games, others may be.

This was, it seemed to me, real medicine: untidy, human, but practiced carefully and conscientiously — as well as anyone could ask for.

He could be depicted as someone who did not conscientiously pursue his rights".