We are guided by our individual consciences, molded by personal sources of influence and inspiration.
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Again, history tugs at consciences: plenty of Spaniards still remember the pain of war and exile.
Proponents of the show of hands have less confidence in the consciences of politicians.
Should we force them back to even worse lives in order to salve our consciences?
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"L'Affaire Cahuzac" has struck French consciences as deeply as Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal in 2011.
People, presumably those with guilty consciences, pay 4.5 to 45 cents per mile to offset their impact.
It's a minor penance, used by giant companies to shape their public images, or to salve the consciences of their higher-ups.
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In 1992, television pictures of starving Somalis, especially the children, engaged the consciences and generosity of millions of Americans, including then-President Bush.
Until and unless proven otherwise, we must conclude that the jurors genuinely voted with their consciences and that the defendants--now free men--are innocent.
In the wake of all the hyperventilating, many Indian fashionistas, eager to assert their social consciences, adopted the sari as their pet cause.
"I would hope that the passing of time will enable people to search their consciences and find the courage to come forward, " he said.
Proponents of the secret ballot say this would allow the members to vote according to their consciences, whether or not they have been bribed.
If his Green gambit fails, Mr Reinfeldt could try to inspire defections among opposition MPs, appealing to individual consciences to save Sweden from the SD.
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Some retailers are beginning to do more to ease shoppers' consciences.
The rich of early 20th-century America used philanthropy to distribute some of their wealth, salving their consciences as well as defusing some of the criticism.
We know the cruelest of fanatics by their exceptionally clear consciences.
Currently, the firms only have to report gross sales prices to the IRS, leaving taxpayers to rely on their own records and consciences to calculate their capital gains.
But this flurry of diplomatic declarations may be more of a sop to European consciences than a sign that Europe is at last prepared to take collective action.
Of course, this mostly serves as fodder for our consciences.
MPs to vote with their consciences rather than their parties.
"There certainly have to be new actions, spectacular and symbolic, to shake up the sleepiness, to shake the numbed consciences and wake up the memory of our origins, " the blog said.
Some people have more well developed consciences than others.
You count on people -- and mobilizing their consciences.
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Science-fiction writers have arrived at analogous solutions to the grandfather paradox: murderous grandchildren are inevitably stopped by something faulty pistols, slippery banana peels, flying squirrels, consciences before the impossible deed can be carried out.
The Synod has already agreed in principle to ordain women as bishops, but it faces an awkward decision about how to treat traditionalists whose religious consciences will not allow them to serve under a women bishop.
MPs were given a free vote on same-sex marriage legislation in the Commons last week, meaning that they were allowed to vote according to their consciences and did not face sanctions for taking an opposing view to their party leaders.
Though these groups do not necessarily have a uniform religious teaching against some of the mandate's provisions, they do have a uniform agreement that a coercive government does not have the right to say that these religious institutions must violate their consciences.
Greeks and Turks, Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, even those whose lives have been battered by hurricanes and other national disasters and who have hardly anything to give are sending help because their hearts have been broken and their consciences moved by the appalling abuses they have seen.
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