(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.
Unconscionable
Definition:
(a.) Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size.
(a.) Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
(2) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(3) The ACCC has accused both companies of engaging in conduct that was unconscionable under Australian consumer laws.
(4) It is unconscionable that she languished in prison for years while those allegedly implicated by the information she revealed still haven’t been brought to justice.” But the commutation was condemned by leading Republicans.
(5) It’s unconscionable that a person can be shot that many times in the back,” Burris said.
(6) While California is facing record drought conditions, it is unconscionable that Nestlé would continue to bottle the state’s precious water, export it and sell it for profit,” says the petition, which is sponsored by the political activist organisation the Courage Campaign.
(7) College accused of 'luring vulnerable students' with free laptops Read more The ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, told Guardian Australia: “We are making allegations that have got to be tested in court but, that said, this sort of behaviour is about as concerning as we run across.” Last month the ACCC initiated a case against the Sydney-based Unique International College, accusing it of “unconscionable conduct” including targeting vulnerable and illiterate people with offers of free laptop computers if they signed up to diploma courses.
(8) President Nixon has referred to the "unconscionably abuse" of the defense.
(9) During the trial's closing arguments Donald's lawyer, Max Blecher, accused Shelly of an "unconscionable", "devious" and "invidious" scheme to strip him of the Clippers.
(10) Name-checking cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya, besieged and attacked by government forces, was intended to bring home the brutal reality of what the presidents and prime minister warned would be an "unconscionable betrayal" if the Libyan leader did not depart.
(11) Given the stakes, it is unconscionable that high-CBD marijuana continues to be federally classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse", and the mere act of transporting it from Colorado to another state – even one where it has been legalized – is illegal .
(12) Not only were there unconscionable delays in providing the children with basic medical care, psychological support, shelter, food, or protection, but no steps were taken to locate the additional child victims ... to determine if they also required protection and care,” the report states.
(13) "Given this extraordinarily severe repression, it would be unconscionable for the council to continue limiting its work on North Korea to the nuclear issue.
(14) "It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way.
(15) It’s unconscionable, from a perspective of a criminal prosecution – or an interrogation, for that matter.” Mark Fallon, deputy commander of the now-shuttered Criminal Investigative Task Force at Guantánamo, said Zuley’s interrogation of Slahi “was illegal, it was immoral, it was ineffective and it was unconstitutional.” It is unknown if Zuley interrogated other Guantánamo detainees.
(16) Corruption, wherever it is, and however it is visited on Africa, is unconscionable.
(17) It would be unconscionable to put this trial off to September 2015 with the second trial being heard in 2016.
(18) Opting out of vaccines or insisting on a schedule for administering them, as McCarthy now suggests, that puts others at risk (because your own child could be protected by herd immunity) is unconscionably selfish.
(19) Behind almost all of Barak's moves, Arafat believed he could discern the objective of either forcing him to swallow an unconscionable deal, or mobilising the world to isolate and weaken the Palestinians.
(20) To go beyond them with between £24bn and £50bn of extra spending cuts and tax rises, as is rumoured for Tuesday, is unconscionable and will rightly be challenged.