Tris was originally from Abnegation, which partly accounts for her persistent honesty and conscience-pangs, but she is suppressed because she is a "divergent" – an unclassifiable free spirit.
"It's hard to see what's right about a direction of travel which is leading to the jailing of government critics, the holding of prisoners of conscience, and persistent reports of torture in detention.
At other times, Liu's persistent advances and Wu's conscience- stricken refusals recall the buffoonery of Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews," in which the title character, a handsome, virtuous young footman, resists the indelicate overtures of his employer — that proto-cougar, Lady Booby.
The honorees were selected for their persistent advocacy of freedom of conscience in the face of imprisonment and ongoing persecution in their home countries.
He is often called Germany's conscience because of his persistent agitation over what he considers the unfinished business of de-Nazification as well as other causes, from environmental degradation to Third World debt relief.
In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise.
And consider this passage, outstanding but by no means atypical: **{:.break one} ** In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise.
The singer, who has been a persistent critic of Russia's law banning "homosexual propaganda", said his conscience dictated that he try to persuade the Russian president to end prejudice against people, even if he was ridiculed for doing so.
The Vatican said Beijing forced bishops to take part in the congress and accused the Chinese government of a "persistent desire to control the most intimate area of citizens' lives, namely their conscience".
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