Sentence examples for failure of conscience from inspiring English sources

Without the periodic intervention of the social conscience, the economy will inevitably serve only the interests of a small part of society, and Glautier gives numerous examples of how our current failure of conscience plays into the hands of those who care only for increasing their already considerable personal fortunes.

Oscar Arias Sanchez has criticised global arms industry spending as a failure of conscience by nation states: "When a country decides to invest in arms, rather than in education, housing, the environment, and health services for its people, it is depriving a whole generation of its right to prosperity and happiness.

Wendell Steavenson is not reporting the story as a dispassionate, invisible observer — she is, in a way, a character in it, with her own narrative arc of struggling to understand and come to terms with the failure of human conscience in extremity.

The idea that more than half of those responsible for riots should blame a failure of moral conscience might seem contradictory – but it accords with hundreds of interviews in which rioters expressed regret, concern or disappointment at what they saw going on around them.

In Flint and in Shawnigan Lake, we have a failure of democracy, of values and of conscience.

Equally, Grayling's failure to engage with the contradictory demands of conscience and military duty are a partial dereliction of the onerous task for which he has volunteered.

You say the media failure stirred the conscience of generations of journalists, alerting them to barbarities in Rwanda and Bosnia.

He was widely blamed for the failure of those negotiations over his insistence on "an unbounded liberty of conscience".

Note also that if we follow a Wittgensteinian line, we will indeed allow the (false) proposition that p to be identical with a fact at the very least with itself but we can now, given the failure of (a), say with a clear conscience that that fact is the wrong fact, which does not suffice to render the proposition true.

Rubin's lack of conscience was most striking last week when he claimed he bore no responsibility for Citigroup's failure because his role at the company was "strategic".

And it's worse than useless because its failure to enforce campaign finance laws encourages law breaking while making suckers of candidates or donors who, for reasons of conscience, opt to respect the law.