Sentence examples for in conscience from inspiring English sources

"in conscience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone's internal code of ethics or moral principles that they believe should be followed. For example, "No matter the pressure, she refused to do something she knew was wrong in conscience."

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In each case, the employee is bound (so long as he can "in conscience hold his office," 8 38) to fulfill the dictates of a given leader or organization: he uses his reason to decide the best way of achieving ends that have been laid down by others.

What prompted your shift in conscience?

"I could not in conscience put anyone there".

Badly torn in conscience, he twice visited Martin Luther at Wittenberg.

Nor could its journalists in conscience lay into the Catholic church, while leaving radical Islam alone.

How in conscience do you square your wealth with the poverty you see around you here?

I cannot see how, in conscience, the OFT can defend its decision.

Threescore, I think, is pretty high; 'Twas time in conscience he should die!

It agrees that all employees of a Catholic organization have a right in conscience to practice birth control, but that the organization also has a right in conscience not to pay for (or otherwise facilitate) the practice.

So, the bishops, speaking in the name of these institutions, say they cannot in conscience go along with this.

"If you cannot do all that in conscience, then you should perhaps feel free to go somewhere else".

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