Laïcité is based on three key principles: freedom of conscience, a strict separation between religion and the state, and the freedom to exercise any faith.
The text of the Cannes ban refers to those who wear "ostentatiously" religious dress as disrespectful of good manners and laïcité, the French concept of secularism founded on freedom of conscience, a strict separation between religion and the state, and the freedom to exercise any faith.
The Honorable Cyrus Garza doesn't live up to his honorific: he's both a skirt-chasing gambler ("Bless me, Father, for I need a four," he jokes to a blackjack dealer) and a strict constructionist with an uneasy conscience.
The necessity of considering the environment as an additional design factor arises due to increasing environmental conscience worldwide and stricter requirements to reduce the environmental impact of energy systems.
But it appears that they were able to make the decision in good conscience as Catholics, despite strict beliefs about abortion, because this case has special dimensions.
He belonged to a group of Yankee merchants, strict Protestants, who tried to serve as the city's conscience.
Much can be said for heeding your conscience, even when it is (in my view) excessively strict.
FOR 16 years, Archbishop Renato R. Martino -- depending on whom you ask -- has either served as the life-affirming conscience of the United Nations, or sought to impose the strict moral doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church on a secular world.
For all the demonization of Israel, they know they can count on the conscience of a democratic society that uses force -- yes, according to a strict code of conduct -- only as a last resort.
There is substantial room for interpretation, legal experts said, between Common Article 3's strict prohibition of, for instance, humiliating treatment and the McCain amendment's ban only on conduct that "shocks the conscience".
