Sentence examples for scrupulous conscience from inspiring English sources
The grounds for this apprehension [of bias] must, however, be substantial and I entirely agree with the Federal Court of Appeal which refused to accept the suggestion that the test be related to the "very sensitive or scrupulous conscience".
Given More's relatively lonely stand against royal policy, conscience is a crucial term for him, as it touches on the soundness of his own motives, especially when these are criticized as over-scrupulous; and in the beast fable of Mother Maud he playfully navigates a course between the scrupulous conscience and the over-large or elastic conscience (CWM 12, 114 20).
"At the Mint he could hurt and kill without doing violence to his scrupulous puritan conscience.
Through the years Ms. Raitt has been a scrupulous musician with a conscience, supporting human rights, feminist and environmental causes and playing countless benefit concerts.
John Selden in his Table Talk expressed the view that an awake but excessively scrupulous or ill-trained conscience could hinder resolve and practical action; it being "like a horse that is not well wayed, he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge".
None mentioned abuses that rise to the level of outright fabrication practiced in Seoul, but the comments make clear that life in some labs can tax the conscience of the ethically scrupulous.
But as events spiral rapidly beyond his control, Ike must wrestle with his own conscience -- as well as Ben's less-than-scrupulous plans for the Miramar Playa -- while trying to keep his family and his business from crumbling.
The accounting is scrupulous.
It also needs scrupulous deadheading (or equally scrupulous weeding).
Others are far less scrupulous".
