My homosexuality doesn't threaten the consciences of my fellow humans.
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Climate policy should be about solving problems, not salving consciences.
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Neither their reputations nor their consciences should be wiped clean.
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He's tired of being expected to comfort people with guilty consciences.
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The absence of predictions would encourage individuals to vote their consciences.
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And both found ways to vote something other than their consciences.
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"Words are ultimately internalized and intoxicate our consciences," she told reporters.
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The state can't form the consciences of our children and young people.
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They want to justify their guilty consciences, to justify their guilty acts.
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He says policeman have begun to come to confession with troubled consciences.
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So we can't count on the consciences of Republicans to protect us.
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Maybe it will stir the consciences of at least a few Republicans.
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It happens in response to awakened consciences about the violence of imprisonment.
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It was not only, as many claimed, that their consciences were pricking them.
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Or do they finally grow consciences and deal with their responsibilities like adults?
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And my belief is Speaker Pelosi will encourage people to vote their consciences.
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All of the women in the art are like consciences manipulating GoldLink's move.
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That "we" gave her courage and recruited other consciences to share her doubts.
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"These are questions that call upon the consciences of the congressmen and senators."
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Retelling old fables or repeating the familiar inconvenient truths isn't pricking enough millionaires' consciences.
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As a result, Hawaiʻi's national parks are constantly fielding returned items and guilty consciences.
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And finally, there's always the CTE crisis lingering in the background of our consciences.
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I'm not so sure whether it will leave our consciences in the same condition.
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A thorough examination of financial consciences might help restrain the destructive forces of political populism.
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The bishops remind us of our obligations in order to help us form our consciences.
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Three brave Republicans, all members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, voted their consciences. Reps.
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Our consciences, naturally abhorring everything abominable, tell us that such things simply ought not exist.
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Nonprofits should not allow themselves to be used by the wealthy to scrub their consciences.
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The framers expected that senators would be accountable to their consciences and their state legislatures.
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These regulations force such organizations to choose between following their consciences and facing severe penalties.
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Not to mention ones that cause us to examine our consciences, and how we treat ourselves.
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Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable — this is Marcos.
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The murderer is still at large, and these 'murderers' whose consciences have been eating by dogs.
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Rather, readers' complacent consciences undergo shock therapy in order to enliven their sensitivity to dire happenings.
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For their part, Life Song say they want to use music to "tap into people's consciences".
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Napoli fans must consult their consciences, and search for the answer deep within their own selves.
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He had a charismatic personality, consuming the hearts and minds and consciences of men and women.
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Some know this truth but fear Trump's angry supporters more than they listen to their consciences.
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I would like to make it clear that I also saw serious musicals with social consciences.
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Instead, memories and guilty consciences too long in the shadows re-emerged to plague all sides.
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In particular, just three Republican senators with consciences could do a lot to protect American values.
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" Taking an explicitly political stance, the chief rabbi added that people should "vote with their consciences.
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Authors like Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson shook the consciences of those who read their works.
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In the absence of a written contract, players have to let their consciences be their guides.
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Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri, who is personally against liberalisation, says legislators should vote according to their consciences.
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Any other opinions, even the Pope's, were just that, opinions, and not necessarily binding on Catholic consciences.
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Hurling money at the flames without management reforms accomplishes nothing more than assuaging our own guilty consciences.
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O'Neill's characters would no doubt be much happier if they could dispense with their consciences, as Abigail does.
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"The old practice of moving people around and not confronting the problem made consciences fall asleep," he said.
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I'm happy for those officers that they don't have to live with a dead body on their consciences.
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In one prominent decision, Gorsuch argued that the government should rarely, if ever, coerce the consciences of believers.
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Even the remnants of the other side, in people's minds and consciences, must submit to maximalist progressive claims.
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But I've talked to a number of tech workers recently, and I've seen you wrestling with your consciences.
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In his popular book, Haygood eased consciences that the end of Reconstruction meant the end of black rights.
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Then, and only then, can our consciences be clear (not sure about the whole stopping the plague part).
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Cynics might be tempted to dismiss such measures as an easy way for yuppies to assuage their guilty consciences.
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Fort, however, declined to endorse one of the two remaining contenders and told his supporters to vote their consciences.
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"The old practice of moving people around and not confronting the problem made consciences fall asleep," the pope said.
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Himes concluded his remarks by questioning the consciences of fellow lawmakers participating in moments of silence after mass shootings.
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I drafted a heartfelt letter imploring them to use their consciences and vote for anyone other than Donald Trump.
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Speak out and risk losing their seats in a primary; stay silent and risk losing their party and their consciences.
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Within months of their appeals to our collective consciences, McCarthy was censured by the Senate, and his decline was complete.
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Even now, conservatives continue to ask me if I'm serious — mostly, I suspect, because they're wrestling with their own consciences.
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Thanks to Impossible Pork, newly minted herbivores barely feel the loss—satisfying consciences and chorizo cravings in one fell swoop.
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Blaming the society and washing our hands of the culpability is a classic move when it comes to appeasing our consciences.
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Safe enough that we won't be harangued by our guilty consciences when we tune in for America's Game Of The Week.
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"The HHS mandate forced religious employers to pay for services that violated their consciences," he said in a Friday news release.
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He didn't shy away from politics, nor offer simplistic platitudes to salve the consciences of often advantaged-by-birth viewing audiences.
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A mere broken bone, along with a now-familiar hyperspeed recovery, lets people celebrate football's much-fetishized toughness with clean consciences.
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Thus he has criticized Trump's comments and told fellow Republicans to follow their consciences, while still maintaining his endorsement of Trump.
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The fate of Americans abroad -- easy targets in any violent backlash in the Middle East -- also weighs heavily on presidential consciences.
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"Recognizing the deviations of the past serves to reawaken our consciences to the compromises of the present," John Paul II said.
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Now that they're awake, they're going to carry the weight of consequential decisions, on consciences that are still works in progress.
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The prospect of civil unrest should not deter the Electors from following their consciences; it will occur no matter what the outcome.
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It's a gimmick by which to exploit the tragedy in Greece in order to massage the consciences of some people from Documenta.
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" Nathaniel Hawthorne declared corrupt politicians' "hearts wither away … Their consciences [turn] into India-rubber or to some substance as black as that.
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Research showed that the company's message on its labels didn't stand out to a generation known to favor companies with social consciences.
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And it would allow many party members to redeem the principles and consciences they mortgaged in supporting Trump in the first place.
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What brought us together was a shared belief in acting according to our consciences to fight intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism and genocide.
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It won't take long to discover if this is the straw that breaks through the silence and hibernating consciences of congressional Republicans.
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"The federal government has hounded religious hospitals...forcing them to provide services that violate their consciences," Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan said.
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Or it is possible they might at last consult their consciences, and recall that they took an oath to uphold the Constitution?
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Inside Mr Trump's White House, the anxiety of foreign leaders is ascribed to their guilty consciences, after years of taking America for granted.
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" Francis appealed to "the consciences of those who hold political power, both at the local and international levels so that these tragedies end.
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But this is not the first time in this disaster that we have had our consciences reflected back at us in an image.
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Profit maximization alone—not to mention the consciences of some CEOs—puts big business these days on the side of inclusion and tolerance.
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When she meets up with her mother, abuelita, and aunts later, they all discuss the methods they use to calm their guilty consciences.
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They function as the ethical and legal consciences of federal agencies, rooting out fraud and mismanagement, often with information provided confidentially by employees.
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They use the Tesla to salve their consciences with a "trip to church on Sunday", as the boss of a rival carmaker jokes.
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Post-speech comments by Anderson Cooper, Gloria Borger, Don Lemon and former Obama team member Van Jones offered glimpses into illuminations of consciences.
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Voters need to examine their consciences and act on them by voting out these lawmakers unless they step up and do their jobs.
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Maybe these memories are so painful that filtering them through fiction is the only way to muffle the hammer blows to our consciences.
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He told them to vote with their consciences and informed the White House he would back the deal, but would not sell it.
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Their consciences pull them one way — to tell the truth — while their political interests pull them another way — to keep their heads down.
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If, however, they decide not to run again, the biggest risk they face from reneging on their promises comes from their own consciences.
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If their consciences do not motivate them to remove abusers from the White House staff, perhaps a fear of meeting Kelly's fate will.
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We had trusted and been fooled, we had suffered unjustly, we were good people with clean consciences sorely tried by circumstances outside our control.
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Yesterday's argument concerned a proposed convention rules change that would have freed delegates to vote their consciences rather than be bound to candidate pledges.
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There, they can be laboratories of democracy, dependent upon the public sentiment of their voters and the freely exercised consciences of their state representatives.
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The insiders who are speaking up are turning on the tech world they helped create — as if they're trying to clear their guilty consciences.
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"The reports of the conditions for migrant children at the border should shock all of our consciences," Moore said in a tweet Tuesday morning.
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But whether recruiters make this fact explicit is a matter for their own consciences, said Amador Jaojoco, who helped lead trainings in San Diego.
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New York bureaucrats are using their position to use public money in ways that ease their own consciences and suit their own political priorities.
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It's easy to decide that the world should just write it off and perhaps throw some humanitarian assistance its way to salve our consciences.
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Many of them purposefully set their consciences to sleep and pulled the lever for a man I suspect that they know is morally bankrupt.
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Without card check, at least those workers who felt pressured into signing onto calls for a unionization election can vote their consciences in private.
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All of these individuals will have to answer to their constituents if they are running for reelection, and their consciences if they are not.
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The Oregon delegation made similar announcements in 1916 and 2023, and each time delegates were allowed to ignore state law and vote their consciences.
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But though international success has made Ms. Labaki the country's best-known filmmaker, it is Lebanese eyes, hearts and consciences that she is after.
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Any vote on the final Brexit deal is of such national importance that politicians should be allowed to vote according to their consciences, he said.
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A majority should not be able to impose its way of life on others by using the government to coerce people into violating their consciences.
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Yes, let's cheer the refugee team in Rio, the first of its kind, but not with empty words, and not to assuage our Syrian consciences.
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We have many more tools than did the 17th-century villager to make sense of our world, chemistry, physics, biology and guilty consciences among them.
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In the guidelines, the Vatican called for a registration procedure "that is more respectful of Catholic doctrine, and thus of the consciences of those involved".
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If accommodating diverse consciences in a publicly entangled health system gives one pause, perhaps so too should further government takeovers of health care writ large.
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Many Americans have formed their consciences and instincts toward right behavior as part of the Judeo-Christian tradition based on love of God and neighbor.
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People whose remarkable accomplishments both ease the consciences of white viewers and mask the collective struggles and communal experiences that sustained the heroes in their work.
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Iraqis like to joke that before, under Mr. Hussein's tyranny, they would not even think of criticizing the government lest their own consciences snitch on them.
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HHS, Judge Kavanaugh voted to block the Obama administration from forcing religious organizations to provide abortion-inducing drugs to their employees in violation of their consciences.
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RELATED: 'Why I still support Duterte' Troubled consciences While many of the faithful approve of the crackdown on drugs, Picardal believes they oppose the killings themselves.
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And the attempts to portray the dawning social consciences of the singers — who became famous at the height of the civil rights movement — can feel strained.
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On Monday night, Mr. Guaidó and his wife, Fabiana Rosales, recorded video messages appealing to the consciences — and the aspirations — of members of the armed forces.
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On film, the racial history of the American South tends to be flattened into reassuring morality tales in which black lives matter less than white consciences.
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After a combative 213-hour debate on Thursday, Mr. Nadler said he wanted lawmakers to have time to "search their consciences" before the final roll call.
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" This echoes what Watson wrote about the awakening at Cellardyke in 1860: "even those who did not share in it were shamed into examining their consciences.
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So Kennedy and his allies launched an effort to convince the delegates to change the rules and unbind themselves, so they could vote with their consciences instead.
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Perhaps as a way of easing the consciences of any luxury buyers, Ring also announced that the proceeds are going to UK charities aimed at reducing crime.
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Prominent human rights lawyer Michael Vidler said he had notified all employees that his firm supported those who wanted to act according to their consciences on Wednesday.
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They salve their consciences by giving big money to philanthropy, and, you know, getting great pictures of them standing in front of whatever charity they donated to.
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Right now people who want to invest according to their consciences do so through socially responsible funds, which mostly exclude entities like oil companies or gun manufacturers.
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One activist, Steve Lonegan, who directed Mr. Cruz's losing campaign in New Jersey, is now helping a political action committee that advocates letting delegates vote their consciences.
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Be as cynical as you want about Washington — I certainly indulge myself — but there remain insiders with consciences, and some of them actually work for the president.
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The talks have yet to bear fruit, but John Lindsay-Poland believes Mexico's plight is beginning to prick the consciences of European state authorities and their public.
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In most states they're legally bound to vote for their party's nominee, but such laws haven't been enforced and it's accepted that electors can vote their consciences.
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These senators must stop listening to Big Abortion and start listening to their consciences — and to the will of the American people who sent them to Washington.
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"Allowing terminally ill and dying residents the dignity to make end-of-life decisions according to their own consciences is the right thing to do," said Murphy.
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That vision isn't the "seamless garment of life" beloved of certain liberal Catholics, which effectively makes every issue a "life" issue, downgrading abortion to salve uneasy consciences.
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But "Skeleton Crew" is also squarely in the tradition of Arthur Miller's probing studies of consciences under siege and the crippling concessions made in the name of success.
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It's true that money and power corrupt, but it's also true that the already corrupt gain money and power with much more ease than people who have consciences.
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"Allowing terminally ill and dying residents the dignity to make end-of-life decisions according to their own consciences is the right thing to do," Murphy said Monday.
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In its directive, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops make clear that American Catholics do not need to be single-issue voters.
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In the same way the Republican convention had always rejected any sort of binding, those delegates were allowed to vote according to their consciences and ignore state law.
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But that doesn't mean that the way guns and violence are portrayed in our favorite hobby cannot test our consciences or that we cannot be critical of their depiction.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Conservative lawmakers will be able to vote with their consciences, a so-called free vote, when considering alternative Brexit options later on Wednesday, two of them said.
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"This is a deliberate creation of difficulties that lies fully and squarely on the consciences of our American colleagues," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
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" He also condemned newspapers and magazines for accepting "misleading" advertising about cigarettes, and contended that the publishers must "square with their own consciences their contribution to our national mortality.
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No, but I understand why people across the religious and political spectrum would conclude that they have to wrestle with their consciences and vote for one of these candidates.
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If the Stoneman Douglas shooting is finally going to stir Americans' consciences about the unique violence of childhood here, let's make sure that the discussion doesn't end with guns.
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And I trust my colleagues who are very often motivated to provide abortion care because their consciences, like mine, call them to be present for patients in this way.
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Another rule issued by the administration that was blocked in court would have penalized organizations that require employees to participate in abortions or other procedures that violate their consciences.
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They were probably sleeping soundly, their consciences appeased, I assume, by the fact that every Lebanese had a small fire extinguisher in his car, so nothing could go wrong.
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HHS, Judge Kavanaugh voted to block the Obama administration from forcing religious entities to violate their consciences and be complicit in providing contraceptive and abortion coverage to their employees.
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Before long, four of the five protagonists are haunted by specters from their past, as something in the death-and-revival process converts their guilty consciences into dangerous physical manifestations.
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As a political matter, the tape is something of a fizzle since Trump is far past the point of shocking the consciences of his supporters by word of his satyrism.
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Then, as the U.S. election weighed heavier on our consciences, many sought out meaning in the outfit choices of Hillary Clinton throughout her campaign, and (more than ever) Michelle Obama.
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Remember how the party had to stave off an attempt by some delegates to change the rules, so that delegates could vote their consciences instead of being pledged to Trump?
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"I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
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When power and money are at stake, people often trade in their consciences for more immediately gratifying rewards — and face the consequences when their elaborate schemes spiral out of control.
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Arthur: The R.N.C.'s biggest surprise came on Wednesday night, when Ted Cruz failed to endorse Trump and was booed by the delegates for telling people to vote their consciences.
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And while we may not be able to see them as fully human yet, there's a level of self-awareness that is seeping into their consciences, independent of their design.
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Scott Walker of Wisconsin have breathed new life into these efforts by saying that delegates should be free to follow their consciences instead of being committed to back a candidate.
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Mr. Trump's opponents had hoped to force a vote that would have put the question of whether delegates are free to vote their consciences to the entire convention next week.
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And then it started to spread, as Cruz did something horrible, something that you should never, ever do at a political convention: He told people they should vote their consciences.
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We see three possibilities for a new grand strategy that could guide presidents for a century and help Americans live with their consciences, manage their wallets and understand their government.
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I am sad to see her go, but I am consoled by the idea that she will continue to live on and on in all of our consciences and our imaginations.
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I am sad to see her go but I am consoled by the idea that she will continue to live on and on in all of our consciences and our imaginations.
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In Europe, migrants can try to play on the humanitarianism and guilty consciences of their hosts, but in Algeria these days, the Other is visible only through the prism of faith.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services justifies the new guidelines by saying providers should not be required to choose between participating in the program and violating their own consciences.
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Ferdinand and I spent the early months of 2004 implementing the country's interrogation program, we struggled to contain the growing sense that we had shocked our consciences and stained our souls.
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That simple move may have eased the consciences of sellers, or otherwise tricked them, but it didn't prevent a reaction from one part of the industry rarely if ever heard from.
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Courtney Geraghty, the artistic director of the Crossing the Line festival, said that it was important to awaken peoples's consciences about environmental issues, but also important to show work from abroad.
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As they have for two days, Democrats will toggle between exhaustive recitations of the evidence and appeals to senators' consciences — saving their loftiest and most potent arguments for the primetime audience.
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I want members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over the last two days and to search their consciences before they cast their final votes.
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With their admissions criteria, America's elite colleges sit atop gigantic mountains of privilege, and then with their scholarship policies they salve their consciences by offering teeny step ladders for everybody else.
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"It's gotta be a win so big that Senate Republicans are reunited with their consciences, and only a political shockwave can do that, and that's part of our focus," he added.
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According to Copes, willfully abstaining from considering the ethical implications of a crime is another documented technique that criminals use to prevent their guilty consciences from stopping them in their tracks.
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The song is part of a long history of protest music that has helped to open eyes and awaken consciences since the earliest years of American life, and the tradition continues today.
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A representative form of government requires that the representatives in the government be free to vote their consciences and not be prohibited or restrained from doing so because of a federal command.
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More than that, many of the policy positions they favor, ranging from white nationalism to strident Islamophobia, shock the consciences of individuals who believe these issues are not open for public debate.
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First-world consciences may have been soothed by pouring money into the fiscally troubled country (the new European Union emergency assistance scheme will channel €500 million into the migrant crisis through 2018).
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In a short open letter he said that he put the right of Californians to decide according to their own consciences ahead of his own religious beliefs (Mr Brown is a Catholic).
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They do not want five people to be able to strike down protections for the unborn or for citizens whose consciences do not permit them to support contraception or same-sex unions.
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It helps to soothe the consciences of Speaker Paul Ryan, Senator John McCain, and all others who refuse to retract their endorsement of this rogue individual, no matter what he says or does.
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My uncle the priest told me that the bishops still believe that abortion is the gravest sin (he disagrees), but that this year they were telling their flocks to listen to their consciences.
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But as one generation of Germans has died and given its art to the next, a number of people with prominent collections and unsettled consciences have stepped forward to investigate what they own.
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Mr Meyer argues that it is not only the priests and bishops who must examine their consciences, but lay believers who have grown used to flouting the church's teaching on, for example, artificial contraception.
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In that context, publicists need to examine their own consciences, yes, but also assess the potential risk to their companies if they choose to keep or take on that that person as a client.
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Or because people who actually know what they're doing in any field other than propaganda—be it defense, diplomacy, science, economic policy—might, you know, turn out to have independent minds and even consciences.
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Weekend warriors will have to consult their consciences to determine if wearing a shoe that is illegal for elite runners presents a moral hazard in those major races or in a local turkey trot.
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Truth be told, it seems more likely that many members of Congress were relieved that DACA provided a common-sense, compassionate solution that would appease their consciences and cost them practically no political points.
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They will propose no policies and will not follow their consciences, but will support or block legislation at the direction of their members, who can swap or trade their votes on every bill online.
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It is as if they checked their consciences at the door, removed their spines and pledged allegiance to the president of the "Divided States of Trump" instead of to the United States of America.
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"We encourage all voters to participate in the election and to follow their consciences in making the best choice from the least acceptable list of candidates for president in modern times," the World wrote.
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The religious right argues that their consciences are violated because they are "forced" to cover essential health care for employees through the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit But what about a woman's conscience?
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When Sharp began studying the history of nonviolence, it was seen — and dismissed — as a tactic used by saints and pacifists: sitting in front of bulldozers, appealing to the consciences of men with none.
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Under the more than 400-page rule written by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, hospitals and doctors' offices must certify they are protecting employee consciences and religious rights or lose federal funding.
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However, any such "haircuts" are anathema to European creditors who have guilty consciences about riding roughshod over the no-bailout rule, and who fear a taxpayer backlash against explicit losses on loans made to Greece.
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That short-lived movement was trying to get a "conscience clause" passed that would allow delegates to vote their consciences instead of for whoever they may have been bound to under their local party rules.
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The hosts are malfunctioning machines to him, not the evolving consciences we've spent a season and a half observing, and the reminder is disconcerting, especially during an episode that's so concerned with their emotional impulses.
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While the Judiciary Committee debated, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would refrain from pressing Democrats to support the articles, instead encouraging them to follow their consciences on a vote heavy with historic and political weight.
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She appealed to love in all of its beautiful manifestations (the subtitle is a version of her favorite Dostoyevsky quotation) and when her acolytes appealed for moral guidance she referred them to their own consciences.
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I vowed to eat even less meat (and when I do, it comes from a local farmer who treats the animals humanely) and promised to be more consciences of not wearing designer labels that hurt animals.
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That leaves Democrats alone with their consciences, their constituents, and their cost-benefit analyses of how impeachment would affect the party's ability to retain its majority and stop Trump from winning re-election in November 2020.
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More than 30 years later he got heavily involved in raising money for the veterans memorials as many in America were reconciling their guilty consciences over the horrible treatment of those who served, willingly or not.
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If shoppers really want to buy eggs and have clear consciences, they may need to pay extra for pasture-raised, organic eggs, which can cost two, three or even four times as much as conventional eggs.
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One is that businesses themselves may eschew dangerous choices, either because of their decision-makers' consciences or out of self-interest, because they fear that their reputation — and therefore, sales — would be injured by damaging disclosures.
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Most Republican senators are agitating for the chance to vote to clear Trump of impeachable offenses, but a handful of their colleagues are still agonizing, beset by unique political factors or a battle with their consciences.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, at a Mass for poor and homeless people, warned on Sunday against the "anaesthetized consciences" of those who see the needy as bothersome instead of as brothers and sisters to be helped.
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It's not up for debate, in my view, and those who do not see the connection between preserving the lives of fetuses and preserving the lives of adults should take a clear-eyed look at their consciences.
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"Those of you that saw some of those heartbreaking images of that small boy drowned, I think anybody who's a parent understands that that stirs all of our consciences," Obama said in a speech at the time.
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"Your state imprisons people for their thoughts and their novels ... what happened exactly to make our nation turn around with you to the era of searching consciences and trying minds and imprisoning writers and authors?" he wrote.
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Late last week, Mr. Trump's opponents in the so-called Never Trump movement tried to amend party rules to allow delegates already pledged to a candidate according to the primary results to vote according to their consciences.
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Although Fianna Fail had already agreed that it would allow its MPs and senators to vote their consciences on abortion, its grass-roots delegates voted overwhelmingly against easing the ban at the party's annual conference in October.
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The DNC's delegate selection rules say that pledged delegates "shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them" — a bit of legalese saying they are not legally bound and can vote their consciences.
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Characters like Charlotte, Dolores and Ford may have a clear idea of what they want, but everyone else is trying to find their way through the fog, following consciences that have been manipulated or scrambled into mush.
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The displays have great contrapuntal rhythms, between past and present, between color and black-and-white, and among sensibilities guided by burning social consciences, the drive to experiment or a joyful embrace of the medium's idiosyncratic possibilities.
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Those without consciences will conscript you into their grotesque fantasies, turn you into whomever they want you to be, wreaking any amount of targeted violence and collateral damage; if you survive, you'll be left to catalog your scars.
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And it's made much harder by the fact that liberals spent the last four years telling themselves that such compromises were not necessary anymore, that they belonged to the benighted 1990s and need trouble liberal consciences no more.
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Those proposed changes will probably include a provision that would allow delegates to vote their consciences, instead of voting in accordance with the outcomes of the primaries and caucuses in their states, as most state party rules require.
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Republican members of Congress need to act like a political party with principles rather than outsourcing their consciences to a handful of critics who are willing to say out loud what many of them are saying in private.
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Kennedy knew Carter had the advantage in bound delegates, so he and his allies lobbied those delegates to simply eliminate what they called the "robot rule," saying this change would "free the delegates" to vote with their consciences.
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He then withheld his endorsement at the convention on national television, urging those assembled to vote their consciences—a justified response to a nominee who called Cruz's wife ugly and accused his father of assassinating John F. Kennedy.
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Three months later, a federal appeals court in Denver went the opposite way, ruling that the founders clearly intended for electors to act independently and vote according to their consciences, not to the dictates of any political party.
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"I personally shall be voting with my conscience content, and when we see what unfolds hereafter as we leave the European Union, I hope that the consciences of other members of Parliament will remain equally content," he said.
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It is at this very point that the brilliance of the United States constitution is evident, because it guarantees people of every faith, as well as those of no faith at all, the right to follow their consciences.
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Trump threatens to go it alone "A candidate who cannot win the support of a majority of Republican delegates voting their consciences does not deserve to be the nominee and certainly has no legal right to be," they argued.
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But if you must insist on putting powder in your nose, according to Schwartz, you can do what people with guilty consciences about their carbon footprints do to sleep better at night: offset your economic sins with charitable donations.
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This changes the cost-benefit calculus for corporate executives: Speak up and embroil yourself in unwelcome controversy, or stay silent and invite the opprobrium of customers, employees, social media, foreign governments, and, for some, their own families and consciences.
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He added that while polls show Clinton's lead widening over the GOP candidate, voters -- especially newly registered ones -- might be withholding their true intentions to pollsters but will act on their consciences in the privacy of the voting booth.
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" • Monsignor Henry Kriegel"Muhammad Ali opened our eyes to the evil of racism the absurdity of war… He chided our consciences and awaked in us a deeper sense, the need to respect one another and set aside racial differences.
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The Pope "prays that this pointless slaughter will awaken consciences, lead to a change of heart and inspire all parties to lay down their arms and take up the path of dialogue," Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said.
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It all sounds like something of a 180-degree turn for Cruz, who used his speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention to urge Americans to vote their consciences -- effectively extending permission to break with the party's presidential nominee.
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Religion can act just as a curious repository of aesthetics and symbols we can draw upon for our own purposes — think of how politicians and their surrogates so easily swipe biblical phrases to tug at our consciences, for instance.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - LGBT+ advocates filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block a rule the U.S. government said will allow medical professionals to act according their consciences, but that critics said could deny care to those in need.
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But it will in the end be the delegates to the Republican National Convention, which has protected the right of delegates to vote their consciences since the first convention in 1856, who decide if Trump will be the party's nominee.
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"It protects Title X healthcare providers so that they are not required to choose between participating in the program and violating their own consciences by providing abortion counseling and referral," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
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They could include a provision that would allow delegates to vote their consciences in selecting the Republican presidential nominee, instead of voting in accordance with the outcomes of the primaries and caucuses in their states, as most state party rules require.
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"It protects Title X healthcare providers so that they are not required to choose between participating in the program and violating their own consciences by providing abortion counseling and referral," the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
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If the consciences of Johnson, Portman, and other vulnerable Republicans don't lead them to join the compromise push and that measure falls short of 60 votes, Republicans will be left to argue that Democrats didn't want the Collins plan to pass.
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Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took out a full-page ad in the NYT over the weekend to thank businesses "who acted on their consciences and took positive steps for change" after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
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At both 1860 and 1868 conventions, some delegations arrived with instructions or recommendations from their state conventions on which candidate to vote for, and at both conventions the right of delegates to ignore those directions and vote their consciences was upheld.
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That, Frum says, could fundamentally change the average Republican politician's political calculus, potentially permanently recasting the party in Trump's image: A "true conservative" independent race for president may offer anti-Trump Republicans a way to vote their consciences without endorsing Hillary Clinton.
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Tuesday night Mr. Kaine showed that he is able to differentiate between church and state and respect the judgment, convictions and consciences, as strong as his own, of the roughly one million American women a year who end unwanted or catastrophic pregnancies.
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As Catholics committed to the right of women to moral autonomy over their own bodies, we believe that South Carolina's attempt to usurp that right — to impede women's consciences and to impose one narrow set of beliefs on all its citizens — is wrong.
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Two senators -- one a Republican, the other a Democrat -- dug into their consciences and announced, at potentially great personal cost, that they would endure whatever wrath may come and do what in their hearts they know is right: vote to convict the president.
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On Thursday his office introduced a new unit, the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, meant to protect health care providers "from being coerced into participating in activities that violate their consciences, such as abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide," a press release stated.
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The clergy's task of teaching and helping to form the consciences of the laity, as envisioned by the council and subsequent popes, requires patience in dealing with diverse opinions, fidelity in presenting the fullness of church teaching and perseverance in continuing to teach.
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They must examine their consciences and loyalties, their legacies or hoped-for political futures and decide whether the allegations of sexual assault should disqualify him from spending the rest of his life on the high court -- no matter what it means for them.
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A common grievance, says Mr Ali, a fellow of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, is that Western consciences are moved by the plight of ethnic and religious minorities, such as the Kurds or Yazidis or small Christian sects, but indifferent to ordinary Sunni Arabs.
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The idea had been to organize at least 306 delegates pledged to Trump but who didn't want Trump to win to abstain on the first ballot, denying him the first-ballot majority and releasing delegates to vote their consciences on the second or further ballots.
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Seven decades ago, writing about Japan, Ruth Benedict, an American anthropologist, posited a distinction between "shame" cultures, where the fear of public humiliation helps regulate behaviour, and those, like America and Europe, ruled by "guilt", and so constrained by the power of individual consciences.
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The majority leader had strongly advised Mr. Trump against declaring the emergency declaration, and he made a point of not pressuring senators to support the president, urging them to vote according to their consciences and political interests, according to seven Republican aides and lawmakers.
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Former British Prime Minister John Major said last week the vote in parliament is of such national importance that politicians should vote according to their consciences, not on party lines, and that a defeat could to lead to a second vote on EU membership.
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In fact, in Hamlet, Shakespeare points to this function: Seeking to prod the consciences of his guilty, murderous uncle, the Danish Crown Prince Hamlet stages for the king and queen a play that mimics some of the motivations and actions he ascribes to them.
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That homogenization of our visual language means we have become fascinated with abjection and violence, and because those images we make have an unmistakable moral urgency, we presume that those "bearing witness" to all this darkness — to shock our consciences — must themselves be noble.
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Only then "will people finally escape the raging waters that drown so many, either victims of the drug trade or those who stand before God with their hands drenched in blood, though with pockets filled with sordid money and their consciences deadened," he said.
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Brexiteers point out that Brussels has failed to give similar guarantees for Britons living in the EU. The Lords told MPs to search "their consciences" as it voted 358 to 256 for the amendment, which is likely to be removed when the bill returns to the Commons.
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Instead, The Punisher returns to the well of the more common and exploitative form of the revenge story, one that imagines horrible crimes and injustices in order to justify the violence fans want to see on screen, and to absolve their consciences for wanting to see it.
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"Until somebody gets courage, it doesn't matter," said Curly Haugland, a member of the convention Rules Committee from North Dakota who has argued that delegates should vote their consciences in Cleveland — a position that puts him at odds with the leadership of the Republican National Committee.
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When it comes to saving the world, Glasto is firmly part of the Geldof-Bono Axis of Bleeding Hearts; the philosopher Thomas Hobbes averred that charity exists to relieve the rich man of the burden of his conscience, but the consciences I encountered already seemed pretty unburdened.
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The bishops quote Pope Benedict XVI: "The Church wishes to help form consciences in political life and to stimulate greater insight into the authentic requirements of justice as well as greater readiness to act accordingly, even when this might involve conflict with situations of personal interest" (28).
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Now, rather than provide concerned parents with a choice regarding the social and emotional education of their children in accordance with the dictates of their consciences, public school officials are engaging in coercive viewpoint discrimination in what is perhaps the most important and meaningful child-rearing activity.
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"We should be worried when our consciences are anaesthetized and we no longer see the brother or sister suffering at our side, or notice the grave problems in our world, which become a mere refrain familiar from the headlines on the evening news," he said in his homily.
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But neuroscience continues to be wedged into cases by lawyers, improperly influencing justice just as abuses of forensics are doing for the purposes of the state, all the while further eroding our sense of civic participation: our belief that our own consciences should hold ultimate power over justice.
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Each of us spoke of the weight of our responsibility we understood the consequences to human lives, to an American icon, and to all who are victims and we knew we needed to be comfortable with our decisions in order to be able to sleep at night with clear consciences.
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"The powerful opposition that the European people, in its various forms, is demonstrating in the face of the elites speaks to our consciences and reminds us that politics, too assertive on economic rationales, has not done its homework and has given up on its mission," Conte told the assembled lawmakers.
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In subsequent years, researchers like Stanley Milgram (who tested how people weighed their consciences against the demands of authority) and Philip Zimbardo (who observed the effect of power on students assigned as either prison guards or prisoners) rejected the traditional confines of the lab for more theatrical displays of human nature.
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"When there's mass poverty and unemployment it's very easy to buy the consciences of people," he said, adding that when Boko Haram first attacked Borno State capital Maiduguri several years ago, the Nigerian soldiers who repelled the assault found exactly 3,000 naira (around $15) in the pockets of many of the dead militants.
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If the small community of American men who unjustly—and against the consciences of most of their uniformed comrades—kill, maim, or violate brown people can successfully evade judgment thanks to the caprices of a feeble commander-in-chief; if these are decreed to be the good guys without rigorous investigation; "goodness" will have lost all meaning.
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Coming on the heels of similar decisions by the Tate Modern in London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the spurning of Oxy-cash seems to reflect a growing awareness that gifts to the arts and other good causes are not only a way for ultra-wealthy people to scrub their consciences and reputations.
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Their grievances, like those of the angry men who fume over the female cast of "Ghostbusters" or ethics in video-game journalism, will seem absurdly petty, whether they're complaining about the rare yet somehow oppressive sight of a female sportscaster or the unbearable burden placed upon their consciences by a two-minute conversation about Colin Kaepernick.
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Namely, that all people are created equal, that we all have freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to speak truth to power, freedom of religion, freedom to vote according to our consciences, freedom to resist tyranny and oppression and all of the other freedoms enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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"The Court has handed down a ruling that says to the government, there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups, without sacrificing their consciences," said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) in July after the onetime GOP presidential candidate failed to endorse him at the Republican National Convention, urging Republicans to instead vote their consciences.
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The law has many fatal flaws, including higher insurance premiums for families and individuals, bloated state budgets through the expansion of Medicaid (which is projected to be financially insolvent in 11 years), and an unconstitutional mandate that requires faith-based organizations to provide medical services that assault the consciences and violate the faith of millions of Americans, especially Roman Catholics and evangelicals.
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Is there any area of workable compromise — a "least restrictive means," in the words of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act — by which women who work for these organizations can receive the same breadth of insurance coverage as all other women in the work force, while also enabling the employers to salve their consciences when their employees make use of the birth control benefit?
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Impassioned citizens have been pleading with electors to vote against Mr. Trump; law professors have argued that winner-take-all laws for electoral votes are unconstitutional; a small group, the Hamilton Electors, is attempting to free electors to vote their consciences; and a new theory has arisen that there is legal precedent for courts to give the election to Mrs.
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Above all, do not forget that the world would be a duller and darker place if everyone thought as you did, and if all our thoughts were safe ones, and if there were nothing to bestir our minds, and inflame our senses, and rouse our consciences, and churn the warm but too-placid waters in which we swim at our own peril.
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In a world full of better, equally affordable food, in a cornershop culture literally stuffed with warm, salty, crispy delights from around the globe, in an age where eating and locomotion are not exclusive, at a time when some of our greatest political actions rely on how we choose to spend our money, when our consciences are as vulnerable as our colons, there is no need to eat Ginsters.
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