pangs of conscience
Example Sentences
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What if all police officers heeded the pangs of conscience as Orwell did?
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2020
Marcus’ occasional pangs of conscience aside, our Miami police-detective heroes are not terribly troubled by all the havoc they wreak in the name of the law.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
And it did look as though some of these global elites had pangs of conscience — or pangs of PR concerns, anyway.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2019
After all, pangs of conscience about climate change didn’t stop millions of us taking cheap no-frills flights back in the days when it was easyJet that was disrupting the holiday market.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2018
Her pangs of conscience were bitter, but the dreadful thing was settled; no influence of hers could affect the youth's fate now, whatever it might have done in the past.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
