Sentence examples for global conscience from inspiring English sources

Paul Martin, Canada's prime minister, called on "reticent nations, including the United States", to head the "global conscience".

This said more about the political opportunism of Mr. Martin than it did about the global conscience of the United States.

"To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience," Mr. Martin said.

As a pioneering statement, Ms. Roddick's book is five years late, because its conclusions have already moved to the center of the debate between multinational corporations like Shell or De Beers and the not-for-profit advocacy groups that increasingly cast themselves as a global conscience.

Over the last few years, Iceland has been carving itself a niche in the collective global conscience, thanks to plane-halting volcanoes with unpronounceable names, a collapsed banking system and kooky musicians achieving chart success.

This week, images of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian boy who drowned trying to get to Europe, and of a Syrian family laying on railroad tracks in Hungary in order to stay in the country, shocked the global conscience. .

Set in England and Africa in the mid-1980's, when the plight of third world countries was developing a queasy but mutually advantageous relationship with the promotion of pop stars, "Cause Celeb" orchestrates the tragicomic clash between do-gooders with global consciences and artists whose commitment to social justice lasts as long as a height-of-fashion hairdo or a Live Aid benefit.

In doing so, the organisation has served as a global environmental conscience, and thorn in the side of major corporations and governments.

Yet Europe — usually the self-appointed voice of global moral conscience on international human rights, climate change and poverty — remains committed to agricultural policies that protect its own farm sector while stymieing farmers abroad.

On his Facebook page, Dan Rather called Wiesel "a hero" and "a friend," adding that "our global moral conscience has lost some of its strength today".

The world is our home and we believe it is imperative to have a global mindset and conscience".