Sentence examples for spirit of conscience from inspiring English sources

No society can thrive if its citizens are not qualified for the jobs it creates; if its small businessmen and businesswomen cannot keep their heads above water; if large companies are not managed for the long term and guided by independent boards of directors; and if business as a whole is not driven by a spirit of conscience.

Already, Tesco has indicated that, in a spirit of social conscience, it might use "nudge tactics" to deal with the problem of its customers' obesity through information gathered from their loyalty cards.

In the aftermath of 9/11, we got a clear glimpse of what had gone wrong: a collapse of the city's traditional spirit of progressive civic conscience.

Feeling pangs of conscience?

Is playing passionately under controversy a sign of a man's indomitable spirit or a superstar devoid of conscience?

The savantish 11-year-old interjects naïve, untested idealism; the landlord provides the rapacious entrepreneurial spirit that vacuums capitalism clean of conscience.

Quakers in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey believed in a reciprocal liberty of conscience in the spirit of the golden rule.

He finds the moral relativism of the Enlightenment inadequate while at the same time he embraces modernity's commitment to choice, to freedom of conscience, to liberality of spirit.

But lighting the spark of conscience needs brave individuals like Thomas Clarkson, the moving spirit behind the founding of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of Slavery in 1787.

To satisfy the wartime norms of the day, he exalts classical Japanese warriors as self-sacrificing men of unimpeachable principle, and yet he emphasizes their fidelity to their conscience and their spirit of resistance.

For more than a decade, though, I have known the conscience, heart, and spirit of Walter Cronkite.