He ducked questions about his own conscience, insisting everyone would have to "learn lessons" from the awful events surrounding Dr Kelly's death.

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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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"The governor has his own conscience, " Rapert, R-Conway, told reporters.

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In order to best represent my state of Vermont, my own conscience and principles I have stood for my whole life, I will leave the Republican Party and become an Independent.

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Clinton will argue the opposite case, of course, and will say, look, superdelegates have been given the power to follow their own conscience, and here is the reason they should follow their conscience and not follow the pledged delegate lead that Obama has.

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Politicians have to make up their own minds based on their individual conscience.

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But when Peter Bakker, the CEO of European logistics company TNT, decided he wanted to do something to tackle world hunger, he quickly discovered that having a social conscience had business benefits of its own.

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As the French looked back on a life spent pricking the conscience of a nation about poverty on its own doorstep, they were also digesting a political row about earthly goods at the other end of the scale.

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Every nation, including my own, would benefit from hearing and heeding this message of conscience.

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The resister feels compelled by religion or conscience to follow this route rather than to pay as of their own free will for war and weapons.

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