Sentence examples for tender conscience from inspiring English sources

He is a man of tender conscience with some legitimate concerns about the legal mess that is the war on terror.

At first glance, the Hobby Lobby case seems slightly ludicrous: on grounds of tender conscience, the crafting retailer refuses to include certain contraceptive methods on employee health insurance plans mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

When Newt and Rick speak for their church's tender conscience on not being forced to insure women's health, they are speaking for a church body run by old men who have presided over 50 years of covering up child abuse, sexual molestation and the codling of fascist regimes from Franco to Mussolini.

Domestic restrictions on drilling have had the unintended effect of insulating our tender consciences from the worst impacts of oil extraction.

When some veterans of the Westminster Assembly went to Holland in 1660 to meet with Charles before he returned, the king made it clear that there would be modifications to satisfy "tender consciences".

However, there might be an elegant middle way to appeal to those tender consciences that cannot or will not face the prospect of ordering the release of an intercontinental nuclear-armed ballistic missile.

The paradox is that a move by a conservative pope to ease the tender consciences of conservative-minded Anglicans will actually be a move toward the complete secularization of Britain, and an acceptance of its new multicultural identity.

They had a somewhat restricted view in Sandymount, Dublin 4 of what was suitable reading for a schoolgirl in the late 1950s: my uncle had confiscated an Agatha Christie mystery from me, pronouncing the subject of murder to be "squalid" and "disedifying" for the tender consciences of a young lady.

Paul argued that the "strong" Christians should avoid eating meat in the presence of the "weak" Christians out of concern for their tender consciences, so as not to cause them pain.

Vane was not amused by this, and responded by pointing out that he preferred the rights of "tender consciences" to be granted by Parliament than by the duplicitous king (papers exposing the king's negotiating positions as facades had been captured at Naseby, and had largely silenced the Royalist elements in Parliament).

His comic masterpiece, once known as "The Confessions of Zeno" (1923) and recently retranslated as "Zeno's Conscience," a tender, devastating, hilarious portrait of modern man's absurd delusions, is now safely established as a classic of Italian literature; the critic Paul Bailey went so far as to declare it "arguably the greatest comic novel of the 20th century".