in conscience
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"We wish to remain in total communion with the church but we cannot signify more clearly, or more painfully either, our incapacity in conscience to obey what we are commanded to do."
From Fox News • Dec. 8, 2018
This is a superb reminder, a question that brings in conscience and social justice.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2017
Besides, the rule applies to pharmacies rather than pharmacists; if a pharmacist cannot, in conscience, supply the pills, a colleague may do so.
From Economist • Jul. 7, 2016
Yet I could not, in conscience, enter into a relationship bringing the baggage of my illness; it would not be fair to do so.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2014
He is to be pitied who can read these stories without being widened in his sympathies, elevated in thought, quickened in conscience, and ennobled in soul.
From Beyond by Hubbard, Henry Seward
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