(n.) Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
(n.) The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
(n.) The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
(n.) Tenderness of feeling; pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(2) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(3) The move will increase pressure on Nick Clegg to give his MPs a free vote on the issue, something normally confined to issues of conscience.
(4) "Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later.
(5) My act of conscience began with a statement: "I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
(6) He added, in an interview with BBC Breakfast: "We're hoping people's conscience will really lead them to decide that using a hosepipe in these circumstances is not the right thing to do."
(7) "I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia."
(8) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
(9) A conscience clause, however, will allow individual clergy to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages.
(10) "What we are seeing now are just 'conscience' demonstrations, but when people really find it hard to make ends meet and they become 'necessity' demonstrations there will be a social explosion."
(11) In a 1958 debate on marriage, Robert Menzies himself that declared that the issue “closely touches the individual conscience of members”, adding that “though it will be a government measure, it shall not be treated as a party measure”.
(12) Age, sex, origin, duration of illness before attending the Institute, Conscience variations, clinical crisis types, condition of Status Epilepticus appearance and unleashing factors were considered.
(13) I think they need to be respected, assumed to have a brain and a conscience, and left to live their lives as they choose.
(14) A major proportion of that prison population is prisoners of conscience, like Rajab.
(15) Some MPs are eyeing Vince Cable's complex conscience.
(16) History will judge Syria’s descent into a hydra-headed war as a stain on the world’s conscience.
(17) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(18) Asked whether they should resign, Robin Geffen, chief investment officer of the fund manager Neptune and a leading critic of the deal, said it would be up to their "individual consciences", but noted the aborted transaction had been "an absurdly ambitious attempt by the Pru to buy a large Asian company, at a very high price, with a very unclear strategy".
(19) In a letter to assembly men and women the Presbyterian church said it was "not merely an issue of conscience for Christian people and churches, but a very significant one for the whole of society".
(20) Downing Street stressed that David Cameron regarded same-sex marriage, as well as gay adoption, as conscience issues.
Devil
Definition:
(n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
(n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
(n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
(n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
(n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
(n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
(v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
(v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
Example Sentences:
(1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
(7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
(12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
(13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
(14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
(15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
(16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
(17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
(18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
(19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
(20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.