How To Use Conscientious In A Sentence
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Like other conscientious objectors, he was called to a tribunal.
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He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
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Conscientious and conservative judges, both state and federal, should have rebelled against the abortion decision in Roe.
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Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.'
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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He registered as a conscientious objector and was summoned appear before the tribunal set up to judge the sincerity of 'conchies'.
Between silk and cyanide
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He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity.
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She has been a conscientious ambassador for her country all her reign.
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A kind, good natured and most conscientious gentleman, Jimmy was well qualified in his career and always brought the personal touch to his dealings with people.
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The research has also found that today's comedians are less agreeable and less conscientious than average people.
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joinery," mortised, and held by the skill and conscientiousness of its construction.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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As conscientious objectors, this was a way for them to do their part for the war effort.
Smithsonian Mag
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Taking the lead are small landowners or Western farmers who make appealing pleas to be left alone to enjoy their property and take care of it conscientiously.
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Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
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Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
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A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944.
This Was Not Yvette
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However, last-borns perceived themselves as more agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than their siblings perceived them.
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Kind, conscientious and hard-working, Eddie was a man of many noble qualities who commanded the height of regard and respect among his many friends in England.
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conscientious application to the work at hand
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Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice when used in a conscientiously-applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.
Quixote Bronson, Savior of Neglected Suburban Housewives
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During the First World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked on road-digging and similar tasks.
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In that period, there was huge public hostility to the conchies (conscientious objectors), who had refused to fight.
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All the candidates were described as conscientious, smart, and insightful, and all the descriptions ended with notes, such as "Observation: seems to be candid and trusting," or, "Observation: his/her natural competitiveness was apparent.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity---Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights activist.
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This conflict is illustrated by the question of conscientious objection in war time.
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Like other conscientious objectors, he was called to a tribunal.
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The pores are large and visible, and only the most conscientious care can keep them from appearing clogged.
Take Care of Your Skin
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No cricket writer or radio commentator was more industrious and conscientious.
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But when relaxed, he is charming, deferring politely to opinions with which he disagrees and displaying a conscientious desire to understand.
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Did it make him less sensitive, less conscientious, less capable, less caring, less able, less tough?
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It is only the majority of hard-working conscientious officers who have to endure this.
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He's a generous tipper and a conscientious citizen who shows up for jury duty when he's summoned.
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If I were planning to look for a new home, I would seek out the states where people had higher levels of conscientiousness and 'agreeableness' and lower levels of 'openness' and neuroticism.
Vanishing American
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But having a personality trait known as conscientiousness seems to matter, too, according to a new study.
Clipmarks | Live Clips
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A considerable part of the day was spent in discussing conscientious objectors.
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In the wilderness have ever dwelt the conscientious, the free spirits, as lords of the wilderness; but in the cities dwell the well – foddered, famous wise ones — the draught – beasts.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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Abide by the decision of the authorities and serve your full sentence conscientiously.
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Would a successful and conscientious banker really give up his City life to run a damp campsite?
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First, we must distinguish between morality in the sense of conscientiousness, that is, steadiness in acting in accordance with one's sense of duty, and morality
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice
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Not the rights and wrongs of conscientious objection.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Well, Anselmo was at least a conscientious scholar in his time, and Rafael, if tradition be worth aught, was a comely youth.
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They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation.
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Whoever set up this Archive had been pretty conscientious about keeping people informed.
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It is carefully and conscientiously applied: slathered, scumbled, scraped, drawn.
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Not as conscientious as the hirsute man in front of me, I took this as my cue to step out of line.
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All Huxley's work was marked by a quality which may be called conscientiousness or thoroughness.
Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
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I am hard-working, conscientious, honest and have a lifetime of experience to offer.
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Vincent Astor, twenty years old when his unappealingly acquisitive father drowned on the Titanic, displayed a more conscientious attitude towards his great fortune.
Chaplin’s Girl
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A separate law allowing for conscientious objection and introducing alternative civilian service was also adopted.
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It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
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Taking responsibility means admitting wrongdoing and taking conscientious steps to overcome the wrong.
Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
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Those who know him describe him as a dutiful soldier, physically brave, conscientious and honest by local standards - but a man of limited vision.
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Ability to motivate and create conscientiousness within his department's employees.
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He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity.
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Frank Bascombe struggles conscientiously, if unheroically, with the familiar problems of marriage, job, child-rearing, service to community.
Richard Ford
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Now he had matured into a dependable, conscientious, responsible citizen.
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He sits down on a bench, his arms folded across his slight potbelly, as she conscientiously stares at each painting.
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Only the self-motivated and conscientious will take advantage.
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The five factors are openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism.
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Conscientiously implement the principles and prospering schools , increase faculty - building efforts.
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Happily, yesterday the Moses talk was brought to an end by the April baby herself, who suddenly remembered that I had not yet seen and sympathised with her dearest possession, a Dutch doll called Mary Jane, since a lamentable accident had bereft it of both its legs; and she had dived into the schoolroom and fished it out of the dark corner reserved for the mangled and thrust it in my face before I had well done musing on the nature and extent of my love for Moses -- for I try to be conscientious -- and bracing myself to meet the next question.
The Solitary Summer
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
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I cannot say that the secretary of state has not conscientiously appraised the question.
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His previous employer describes him as honest,[Sentence dictionary] hard-working and conscientious.
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They've been micromanaging missionaries until they resign in frustration, firing missionaries who could not conscientiously support their bibliolatrous theology, and selling off/closing down the system of schools and hospitals in foreign lands that we created to earn a hearing for the gospel.
Philocrites: Go and make Republicans of all nations.
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It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
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Despite uncertain health, he was installed as dean of St Paul's cathedral, where he was conscientious in his duties and subsequently buried.
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Very "imperfective" and hardly a "story," it is nevertheless done with sober and conscientious craftsmanship, very much like Bunin and very unlike the usual idea we have of Pilniak.
Tales of the Wilderness
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My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received.
Recollections of My Youth
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They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
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Given the nature of the Greens and their issues, they typically demonstrate the best potential for harvesting votes in the districts already held by liberal Democrats or conscientious moderates.
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Hence, a man could be very conscientious in the duties of his occupation and still fail terribly in his calling as a father.
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Palm Springs is a curious button, as it was involved in environmental progressiveness long before fashion, with its vast wind farms and other ingenuities, and then it enjoyed a lost weekend during the Hope/Sinatra/Skelton period, where it smacked of overindulgence and development at the expense of eco-conscientiousness; and now it is back, retrofitting, retooling, and fashioning a green future, or at least one that strives for balance.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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Her still lifes, which involve random and often visually unharmonious elements, are nonetheless conscientiously and fastidiously made.
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For once the conscientious researcher just sat.
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It is left entirely to us to decide what to do based on our own values or, more precisely, on those values we conscientiously believe should apply in these cases.
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He was a decent, conscientious, hard working man, who was always very approachable and willing to put himself out for others.
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The historian can only treat conscientious religious belief with the respect it deserves.
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If Sarkozy were a character in a movie rather than president of France, a conscientious sub-titler would have rendered his utterance as "Fuck off then, pathetic loser.
Lisa Nesselson: France for Nonmajors: Things You May Want to Know about Marion Cotillard, Nicholas Sarkozy and French Media
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As conscientious objectors, this was a way for them to do their part for the war effort.
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The conscientious objectors have nothing but admiration, pride and love for their homeland.
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Scientists now widely believe people generally fall into five personality traits: open, conscientious, extravert, agreeable or neurotic.
The 5 Big Personality Traits: Which One Are You?
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Operators must be vigilant, conscientious and dedicated in their duties of administering backups and verifying their successful completion.
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But even the most diligent, conscientious, and competent practitioner will make mistakes.
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In so doing she may be able to salvage our precious right to conscientious objection.
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He kept silent , eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike.
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As soon as I reached Washington, Miss Anthony ordered me to remain conscientiously in my own apartment and to prepare a speech for delivery before the committees of the Senate and House, and another, as President, for the opening of the council.
Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
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A young bank clerk who accompanied Crawley to the office was a type of what I might call the conscientiously unprincipled man.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
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This guy's maps say that Oklahomans are tops in "agreeableness" and "conscientiousness
When maps collide
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It's a conscientious and enjoyable peek at the life and career of one of our most colourful politicians.
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As conscientious objectors, this was a way for them to do their part for the war effort.
Smithsonian Mag
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Could a jury properly directed, and seeking dutifully to comply with the relevant directions, conscientiously reach a conclusion that the applicants were actuated by malice or not?
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People might be interested in this site set up by Israeli refuseniks, that is reservists in the Israeli Army who have refused to fight in the occupied territories. 21 conscientious objectors are in jail so far for refusing to serve.
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She was kind, conscientious and extremely hard-working.
The Sun
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It was a conscientious objection.
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It took my colleague - fortunately, conscientious and studious - to remind the Committee that that vital function should actually be adhered to in the title of this bill.
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Knowing better than even to apply for conscientious objector, I went about avoiding the draft another way altogether.
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There are no tasks which require the conscientious and painstaking effort of sedulous monographers.
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He was quiet, conscientious, a bit of a plodder.
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She's a decent woman who has directed the editorial page to take some very conscientious stands.
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There are many species, though, which with a little initial research can be easily reared by conscientious amateurs.
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It is only the majority of hard-working conscientious officers who have to endure this.
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She was a conscientious mother, but not motherly.
The Glasgow Girls
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As in the other two we find in No.3 that amount of Conscientiousness which will give a desire to fulfil the duties devolving upon her in a trustworthy manner.
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So if the Legislature wants to accommodate people's religious beliefs as well as their secular philosophical and conscientious beliefs, that's great.
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Prior research had established that clearly positive personality qualities - such as extroversion, emotional stability and conscientiousness - had helpful effects on both the performance and the development of leaders.
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It is very refreshing to see that there may be an ability to refuse to pay a levy for a reason relating to conscientious or religious grounds.
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She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously.
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It's hard to square our usual image of Stevens as a doggedly conscientious master of surety and fidelity with this carefree frontiersman.
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But I still object to their conscientious objections.
The Sun
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Sometimes, this request does come out of a genuinely blue sky, whacking a conscientious multiple querier or submitter right in the noggin.
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But I'll let Penny's and others 'commentary stand in for my own, you fail to more conscientiously engage and, in effect, that results in flim-flamming the subject matter endlessly.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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I could not conscientiously lead you to the altar, even a spheral altar, if I were not prepared to pay house rent and coal bills.
Sunny Slopes
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Constitution to fetter the hands of conscientious loyalty in grappling with them, is a political creed which argues ill for the patriotism of its confessors; but it embodies the exact logic of those who look upon
The Assassinated President
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To maintain perspective and understanding in the atmosphere of centralization is a task that many able and conscientious people have found well-nigh impossible.
Why Do We Need Formal Organization?
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inexpert but conscientious efforts
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One conscientious timekeeper would note these interruptions, as well as the reason for a worker's absence.
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To believe in the conscientious, spiritual, and moral feelings of the heart is the best religion. Dr T.P.Chia
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Just as she had been a conscientious dancer, she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman.
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Yet it never occurred to me that the wonderful and technically correct marines hanging on his walls were due to anything but the artist's conscientious study of his subject, and only his casual mispronounciation of the word "leeward," which landsmen pronounce as spelled, but which rolls off the tongue of a sailor, be he former dock rat or naval officer, as "looward," and his giving the long sounds to the vowels of the words "patent" and "tackle," that induced me to ask if he had ever been to sea.
The Grain Ship
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They are sallow, fretty, plain little things, but I'm conscientiously liking them as hard as ever I can.
Jane Journeys On
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We no longer trust the caring general practitioner, the wise physician, or the conscientious surgeon.
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He was an extremely able, conscientious and responsible law officer.
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Unlike many hotels, most health resorts are very conscientious about putting lone visitors at ease.
The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
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Clients presume they are hardworking, conscientiously honest, and careful about the value of money.
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Abdo applied for conscientious objector status in 2010 after he decided Islamic standards would prohibit his service in the US army in any war, military officials said.
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But the defenders of those who are called conscientious objectors fail to perceive the real point of the present question.
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I have not met him now for several years, but resent unattributed criticism of a committed, conscientious and caring man.
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Still Slothrop keeps his map up daily, boobishly conscientious.
Gravity's Rainbow
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A considerable part of the day was spent in discussing conscientious objectors.
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The conscientious care and assiduous industry with which Herschel made his measurements of the diameter of the Georgium Sidus (now called Uranus), and his interesting observations of other planets, of double stars with their coloured light, of cometary and nebulous appearances, were truly remarkable; as may be seen by the various papers which he wrote at this time for the Royal Society.
The Story of the Herschels
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Palm Springs is a curious button, as it was involved in environmental progressiveness long before fashion, with its vast wind farms and other ingenuities, and then it enjoyed a lost weekend during the Hope/Sinatra/Skelton period, where it smacked of overindulgence and development at the expense of eco-conscientiousness; and now it is back, retrofitting, retooling, and fashioning a green future, or at least one that strives for balance.
Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
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She was a conscientious mother, but not motherly.
The Glasgow Girls
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In a resignation letter to the president, Mr. terHorst explained that he could not "credibly defend" the pardon when others — from conscientious objectors to the draft, to Watergate co-conspirators — went unpardoned.
Ford Press Secretary Made News Himself
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He also, at first, saw conscientious objection as a key to mobilizing opposition to the war itself.
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True revision is only possible if you have studied the subject conscientiously throughout your course.
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It is only the majority of hard-working conscientious officers who have to endure this.
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Is it improper to visit criminal penalties on citizens who conscientiously object to killing enemy soldiers in combat?
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People who are low on the trait of conscientiousness also tend to be procrastinators.
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The boss said he was the best apprentice they ever had because he was so hard working and conscientious.
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The recipe recipient transiently made the conscientious alien client unconscious.
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The question is not whether we should condemn somebody who acts conscientiously, but who is incapable of doing what he thinks morality requires.
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He resolved his many conflicts of loyalties during the Second World War by becoming a conscientious objector.
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Information technology can help, but there is no substitute for careful, conscientious scrutiny by people with expertise and experience.
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We can get the good of our disability by conscientiously driving home the principle that in order to 'love others as ourselves' we must learn to _love ourselves as we love others_.
Study of Child Life
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He was born to be an actor, and when he conscientiously set himself to a task he could blend his genius with a thoroughly sound and intelligent craftsmanship.
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If Lois had to shout in her conscientious efforts, Paul had turned out to be naturally brilliant around hearing aids.
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These chapters are excellent for the conscientious analytical chemist, and can truly be used as a manual / handbook.
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He kept silent , eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike.
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The conscientious researcher is careful to avoid up the pole and omission.
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Politicians are of many kinds, including place-men, fixers, conscientious representatives, and dictators, but the exigencies of responsible power mean politics can be a vocation.
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We know this because of the arrangement of its deep plantar tendons, because its palate is desmognathous instead of ægithognathous, because -- but I think I will not proceed further with these reasons; if I do, this article will resemble a letter written by the conscientious undergraduate who used to copy into each of his epistles to his mother, a page of _A Complete
Birds of the Indian Hills
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One rarely considers the fact that the Ivory Tower is its own sort of reality, with customs and folkways that would befuddle the most conscientious anthropologist.
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He was thoroughly conscientious, always helpful and very much liked.
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This essay is a most conscientious piece of work.
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At this time of year, you will find all the answers you are seeking in conscientious, methodical soul-searching.
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He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity.
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People put out their trash, always conscientiously divided into burnable and not burnable, in an orderly way at the points indicated on the streets.
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My last student was a real star, she was very conscientious and made very few mistakes because she was very alert and observant.
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The morning was thus quite agreeable, and the conscientious ice cream vendor would have been out hitting the streets and taking advantage of those fair-weather revelers.
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Where so many people find government policies and their execution morally repugnant, we need a moral framework that can expect and honour conscientious dissent.
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As the perpetual curate, he was in charge of a large if slightly unruly parish; evidence suggests that he was an active and conscientious clergyman.
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I do wonder, though, why they didn't show a separate bar for conscientiousness, which is supposed to predict job performance in almost any line of work.
Does Personality Matter? Compared to What?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Overall, he really does come across as a conscientious young man, anxious to do the right thing.
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A popular and well-admired person is not necessarily a conscientious, moral person. Dr T.P.Chia
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His conscientiousness was his capital ... and he exacted an exorbitant interest for it.
Dream tales and prose poems
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Most are hard working, conscientious, and dedicated to the NHS, and continual criticism is demoralising.
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He came from conscientiously shepherding the flocks of ocean, and I do not wonder that my ring-straked, speckled and spotted varieties put him out of countenance.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
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Take the October 1979 meeting between Green Party leaders and the German Association of Conscientious Objectors at a conference on "Ecology and Peace" in Kassel.
Katie Engelhart: Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free?
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It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.
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The organization worked diligently to publicize the doctrine, distributing pamphlets on just war and the right to conscientiously object to unjust wars.
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His friends and colleagues will miss his humour, conscientiousness, and sartorial elegance.
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The Gospel message cannot be divorced from conscientious care for the common good.
Times, Sunday Times
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From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night.
Flashman's Lady
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The conscientious researcher is careful to avoid up the pole and omission.
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But I still object to their conscientious objections.
The Sun
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The conscientious researcher is careful to avoid up the pole and omission.
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Human conscience is the highest court of justice - no sense of justice is possible without conscientious and moral strengths. Dr T.P.Chia
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What will today's conscientious objectors and military deserters look like?
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In the cradle was a dirty little baby, licking its fist and listening with conscientious attention to the perpetual trangle-tringle-jangle of the maternal music.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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Researchers in the United States have identified two observable measures that predict future professionalism: conscientious behaviour; and humility in self assessment in the preclinical years.
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Englishmen in India were depicted as the most conscientious servants of God.
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Happily, yesterday the Moses talk was brought to an end by the April baby herself, who suddenly remembered that I had not yet seen and sympathised with her dearest possession, a Dutch doll called Mary Jane, since a lamentable accident had bereft it of both its legs; and she had dived into the schoolroom and fished it out of the dark corner reserved for the mangled and thrust it in my face before I had well done musing on the nature and extent of my love for Moses -- for I try to be conscientious -- and bracing myself to meet the next question.
The Solitary Summer
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It's a conscientious and enjoyable peek at the life and career of one of our most colourful politicians.
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The organizers of the show have conscientiously laid out its densely woven iconography.
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He remained a retiring, modest and conscientious man who shunned publicity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although students may not be formally assessed upon the quality of their contributions, conscientious, responsive individuals and analytically minded students are noticed by tutors.
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He is observant and conscientious and pays meticulous attention to details.
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No doubt a conscientious worker; no doubt a good husband and father; but totally unremarkable.
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This has not been through conscientious regard for my own health, but pure hedonism.
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A man of many noble qualities, Frank was always conscientious in his dealings with people.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
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A popular and well-admired person is not necessarily a conscientious, moral person. Dr T.P.Chia
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Dr Wakefield is a crusader for truth, a committed scientist, a conscientious physician, and a devoted family man.
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Conscientious objectors, 'conchies', were despised and vilified to the end.
Times, Sunday Times
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The internal evidence derived from the peculiar character of each of the historical books is decisive of their genuineness, which is supported above all suspicion of alteration or addition by the scrupulous conscientiousness and veneration with which the Hebrews regarded their sacred writings.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Conscientiousness is expected of a student.
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It was a conscientious objection.
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In the cradle was a dirty little baby, licking its fist and listening with conscientious attention to the perpetual trangle-tringle-jangle of the maternal music.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
