Maybe the only way Newtown never leaves our conscience and fades away like Aurora or Columbine is if we have to look at the results of the tragedy to ensure that this moment leads to a transformational movement.

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

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The subsequent US-led war on terror saw lengthy conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and burned phrases like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib onto the international conscience, as the shadow of Islamist militancy continues its spread across the globe.

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Republicans betrayed their own conscience when they went against established Republican principles like the MANDATE over healthcare which was a Heritage foundation issue popularized by Gingrich.

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She insisted that, in actually backing them over specific issues like the gas contract, she was acting according to conscience and what she perceived as Ukraine's national interests.

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Some also like to regard themselves as the custodians of Europe's conscience.

ECONOMIST: European Parliament

Modernist ambiguity, or realist emotional ambivalence, is unknown to Tolkien the good people are very good, the bad people very bad, and though occasionally a character may be tossed between good and evil, like Gollum, it is self-interest, rather than conscience, that makes him tip back and forth.

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"Like many others in Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab is a prisoner of conscience, jailed solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression and assembly, " Sahraoui said.

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Trans fat chance: There's something about stepping into the air-conditioned domicile of fast-food joints like Wendy's International that incites a twinge in the consumer conscience about healthy eating.

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