Sentence examples for for conscience sake from inspiring English sources
"for conscience sake" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means doing something for the sake of one's moral or ethical principles. Example: "I couldn't lie to my boss, for conscience sake, even though it could have saved me from getting in trouble."
"Hughes Punished by Church for Conscience Sake," Christian Century (21 September 1960): 1077 1078.
An editorial the next day, titled "One of the Dispossessed," saw in Zweig's final act "the problems of the exile for conscience sake".
After his death, Newton's niece defended his reputation, insisting that he had followed St. Paul's injunction not to make a fuss about food prohibitions — don't be like the bloody Jews — and to "take & eat what comes from the shambles without asking questions for conscience sake".
Wherefore be subject of necessity, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake" (Romans 13:135).
The question that remains is how Locke's notion of acting 'for conscience' sake' can be made sense of within the context of Locke's general hedonistic account of motivation.
We, the Piecemakers, have chosen to obey God rather than man and will continue to do His will, not only for our conscience's sake, but for the good of our country — long may she live after we have left her, and with God's help may she become once more the example to the world that the God we profess to worship is indeed, a God of mercy, righteousness and peace toward all.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Before the midterms' tidal wave of cynical bilge recedes, it's worth noting that there are still people in politics who risk it all for the sake of conscience.
Taubman is a voracious researcher, but I only hope, for his sake, that his conscience did not force him to read through all those volumes of Khrushchev's speeches on agriculture.
A first novel whose narrator lives a barren existence among the 12 million strangers in Calcutta, writing down (and cleaning up) the family past for the sake of his conscience and his dead sister's baby.
A first novel whose narrator lives a barren existence among the 12 million strangers in Calcutta, writing down (and cleaning up) the family past for the sake of his conscience and his dead sisters baby.
Speaking in a question and answer session with members of the London assembly today, Johnson said of his former parliamentary colleague: "I wanted you know for the sake of my own conscience just to talk to Damian and see that I'd understood circumstances correctly and I see absolutely no harm in that whatever.
