Mr. EDWARDS: I think addressing poverty, particularly in a country like ours, is a matter of conscience.

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Short of that, buyers are essentially imposing a fuel tax upon themselves, a nontrivial fee paid as a matter of conscience.

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You know, I think they as a matter of conscience, and political, frankly political good judgment, are going to want to look carefully at their investment portfolios.

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Past governments have regarded the issue as a matter of conscience, one on which MPs and peers should have a free vote, and the Ministry of Justice said it would only comment on any proposed legislation when it was published.

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Of course, the crossbenchers are not a party and are not whipped - their vote is entirely a matter of individual conscience.

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She said she held orthodox Christian beliefs about marriage and could not carry out same-sex unions "as a matter of religious conscience".

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Mr Romney himself admits he has changed his stance on abortion, reversing his previous acceptance of it as a matter of individual conscience.

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"I cannot, as a matter of religious conscience, follow that instruction because I may not trim my beard even temporarily to complete the academy, " he wrote.

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They knew the dangers of merging government, which was designed to protect individual rights, with religion, which as Jefferson argued, was a matter of individual conscience.

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