conscience
Example Sentences
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The struggle for America’s multiracial democracy needs — and has always needed — everyday white people of conscience who are prepared to make good trouble.
From Salon
There’s so much noise around her that she can’t always hear her conscience.
From Los Angeles Times
However, the government as a whole has stayed neutral on the issue, with ministers and MPs able to vote with their conscience rather than having to stick to a party line.
From BBC
They deliberately appealed to the conscience of a nation and were certain that nation, America, had a conscience to which an appeal could be made.
Article 22 of the order says a teacher may make a request to school governors to withdraw "solely on grounds of conscience".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.