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Her generation was inculcated to cozy up to men in power and treat younger women like competition or pets; she keeps her conscience as compartmentalized as a box of fishing tackle.

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"I could not in good conscience approve an export that would perpetuate the treatment these belugas have endured," she said.

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"No-one wants to be the person that removes the shark nets and then there's a fatal attack straight after. You don't want that on your conscience."

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"It shook the conscience of this court as not even a word or a letter was legible," he wrote in the order.

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There were some incidents of poor care that I did not record on camera but I left with a clear conscience.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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