"When the chips were down, he remained a conscientious objector and stayed an honest man".
I wanted to feel like more than a tourist in Hanoi, and I saw no point in remaining a conscientious objector.
Older participants (in their 70s) were more conscientious, remained vigilant (i.e., considered their options before making a decision) and avoided being hyper-vigilant (focused on immediate solutions without considering other outcomes) compared to the younger group (in their 50s).
Until recent years, these very same conscientious consumers have remained stubbornly disengaged from where their second biggest investment goes.
But although the circumstances of their lives have drastically changed, they themselves have remained essentially the same: decent, conscientious, incapable by nature of ignoring the larger world and the suffering of their countrymen and neighbors.
As a magistrate of the city he frequently showed himself to be conscientious and enlightened, though he remained characteristically irresponsible in financial matters.
What remained was a taut, two-act adventure yarn, bound by the relationships between Ahab and his conscientious first mate, Starbuck, and between the neophyte seaman Greenhorn (Melville's Ishmael, renamed with dramatic intent) and Queequeg, the noble-savage harpooner.
There is more to good oral health than conscientious brushing and flossing, even though they remain important.
The proposition, it turned out, was from a man in Florida (he prefers to remain anonymous), a consultant on overseas engineering projects and a self-proclaimed "conscientious entrepreneur" who imports clothing as a sideline.
As it happened, Congress removed the conscientious objector clause, but this deletion should not change our understanding of the remaining language.
