Sentence examples for exercise conscience from inspiring English sources

Free will and the ability to exercise conscience are also key concepts underlying Gassendi's views on society and the body politic.

MPs must exercise their conscience and bring an end to the indefinite incarceration of children".

Earlier, Steve Minnikin, the LNP member for Chatsworth, said he would exercise his conscience vote in favour of the proposed laws.

"I get to exercise my conscience, and you all get to vote the first Tuesday in November every other year".

"There was a vote on Syria and the decision was that I should exercise my conscience and that was fully debated in the CLP.

I did lard my list with great novels relating to social justice: at a time when inequality in America has soared to historic levels, it seems useful to exercise the conscience as well as the imagination.

Those who turn away from Hitler at the bitter end are restored to innocence, when in fact they were loyal Nazis whose convenient disillusionment -- coming as Russian soldiers appeared over the horizon -- is treated as a heroic exercise of conscience.

The government is allowing a free vote on fox hunting, but still refuses to allow its MPs to exercise their conscience on whether babies and children should have the same legal protection from being hit as adults.

"[Farrell] talked about the fact that he accepted as part of a compromise that he would not necessarily be able to exercise his conscience in the way he wanted to as part of an agreement with the Labor party about the handling of this matter," Sinodinos said.

Whenever a person formulates what is to be done in some circumstance, this is an exercise of conscience, which has determined proper action from the principles of synderesis.

At the World Bank he'll have ample opportunity to exercise that conscience, as well as his considerable talents for management and problem-solving.