(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.
Penitentiary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
(a.) Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
(a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
(n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
(n.) One who does penance.
(n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
(n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
(n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
(n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
(n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(2) An earlier major exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s work, held inside Alcatraz island penitentiary in the San Francisco bay, featured works made out of the plastic construction toys.
(3) He commented: “I’m talking about my experiences of walking into a penitentiary that I would see in a movie like Shawshank Redemption , because it was an old prison.
(4) Two hundred and seventy-five Canadian Federal Penitentiary inmates from 9 institutions participated in a 3-hour assessment consisting of a structured interview and a batter of self-report tests to determine key social and demographic characteristics; type, frequency, and extent of substance use prior to incarceration; previous treatment for substance abuse; criminal history; and perceived relationship of criminal behavior to substance use.
(5) This was the image of the former News International chief executive mocked up as a Page 3 girl which recently led to a long-time subscriber in a US penitentiary having his copy confiscated on obscenity grounds.
(6) The epidemiologic situation for tuberculosis in the penitentiary-labour establishments at the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs was subjected to a comprehensive analysis with subsequent discussion of the results at a meeting of the staff of the Ministry of Public Health; instruction and plan of measures to be taken have been compiled by both ministries; a permanent board has been instituted for rendering help to medical workers of the penitentiary establishments; all law-protective organs have been involved in tuberculosis control; a specialized institution has been set up with a hospital for 200 beds intended for skilled examination and treatment of patients.
(7) On Wednesday night, 53 prisoners escaped from the Barreto Campelo penitentiary after explosives were used to blow a hole in an outer wall.
(8) Televisa also showed concurrent footage of what it said was the control center meant to be monitoring the prisoners in the Altiplano penitentiary not far from Mexico City.
(9) The subsequent and, in particular, the recent building re-structurations, have radically changed the penitentiary in order to make it more in line with the functions required by the present prison policy.
(10) Officials believe Lockett, who was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman and ordering a friend to bury her alive, died of a “massive heart attack” 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester.
(11) This was a direct contradiction of one official's promise: "I can say one thing: Alyokhina will attend the parole hearing," a spokesman for the federal penitentiary service told the Russian Legal Information Agency on 12 July.
(12) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
(13) He was born in Hamburg on 21st August 1898 and beheaded in the Plötzensee penitentiary on 13th May 1943.
(14) As a result, the index of tuberculosis morbidity in the republican penitentiary-labour establishments reduced by more than half to promote an improvement of the epidemiologic situation in the republic.
(15) When I got out of the penitentiary (2 ) in 1969, I became a drug counsellor, and dedicated my life to helping other people.
(16) Tuberculosis morbidity in penitentiary-labour establishments (PLE) is scores of times higher than that among the population on the formation of which it has an influence.
(17) Conversely, the Reception Center group scored significantly higher than the Penitentiary group on the primaries, B, C, F, G, N, and Q3.
(18) The present investigation examined lifetime multiple disorders, measured by the DIS, among a representative sample of male penitentiary inmates.
(19) Within 20 seconds of receiving his lethal injection on Jan. 9 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, 38-year-old Michael Lee Wilson said: “I feel my whole body burning.” This statement described “a sensation consistent with receipt of contaminated pentobarbital,” Taylor alleges.
(20) The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of decayed, missing, and filled teeth among federal male prisoners (aged 21-75) in the US Penitentiary.