Sentence examples similar to general conscience from inspiring English sources

"general conscience" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a collective or shared moral awareness held by a group. For example, "The general conscience of the citizens of the city was to uphold the law and take care of the community."

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Comedian, actor and – apparently – bewildered Victorian time-traveller Billy Crystal disappointed millions of fans and general conscience-havers this week when, in an interview with the Television Critics Association, he said that he thinks gay characters on TV are "pushing it a little too far".

It acts as a very general sustainability conscience, allowing the designer to make decisions about the impact that each project they make might have.

In general, Bonaventure regards conscience and synderesis as interpenetrating one another.

In his treatise, Philip chiefly discusses synderesis, and at times he describes it as an unerring intellectual dispositional potentiality that provides general truths to conscience for specific application.

It expressed his desire for a general amnesty, liberty of conscience, an equitable settlement of land disputes, and full payment of arrears to the army.

Despite his early insistence that personal morality was a question for individual conscience, not general agreement, he had a clear view of the good society.

This did not mean that our general interest conflicted with conscience, but rather that local prudential information could give reasons for particular reasons for action that conflicted with conscience.

So far this has yielded mild success at best, at the cost of my guilty conscience (and general annoyance).

Michael Walzer claimed that the growth of religious toleration in Western nations arose amongst other things, from the general recognition that private conscience signified some inner divine presence regardless of the religious faith professed and from the general respectability, piety, self-limitation, and sectarian discipline which marked most of the men who claimed the rights of conscience.

In 1975, he undertook what he called a "labour of love", playing the kindly, conscience-stricken General Lord Fairfax in Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's film Winstanley, about the tragic fate of the leader of the Diggers in the English civil war.

Amnesty International has listed General Gallardo a "prisoner of conscience," the last one in Mexico.

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