How To Use Conscionable In A Sentence
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Yet what's truly gripping is the account of crofting life under the brutal and unconscionable feudal system.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had both drunk an unconscionable quantity of red wine the previous night.
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Of course contracts induced by fraud or misrepresentation or contracts which are unconscionable bargains are voidable rather than void but, in the absence of third party reliance, that cannot constitute a difference of principle.
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I think what makes the movie so resonant is how the unconscionable behavior of some characters and sections of the society at large isn't quite as far-fetched as you might initially think.
Archive 2010-06-01
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For a family to be put through such tragedy and emotional upheaval twice unconscionable.
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The obstacles in the way to achieve such benefits, with cleaner fuels, continue to include a compromised political will coupled with unconscionable corporate conduct.
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What I think it will do is poison the atmosphere in the American scientific and academic community in a way which is absolutely unconscionable.
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The problem is that the old party is an unconscionable time a-dying, which prompts Kemp to utter outrageous one-liners.
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Where the ground relied on is unconscionable conduct in a foreign court the principle of comity requires that the jurisdiction be exercised only with great caution.
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It is unconscionable to be at this juncture and not go all the way to establishing a system that emancipates humanity from the tyranny of our nation's for-profit health care system.
Printing: Now, Let's Get the Health Care Job Done!
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I urge all gastronomes to avoid supporting this unconscionable practice.
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Actually treating them like "common criminals" is conscionable because it validates our system of laws and our culture.
Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
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It would have been a stranger to the unconscionable conduct.
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It has come to such a pass in this so-called chivalrous country that sensitive women will submit to almost any wrong rather than seek redress in our courts of law, where they are liable to be subjected to studied insult by unconscionable shysters.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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I have read enumerable stories of consumers facing completely ridiculous, unethical, and even unconscionable issues.
Ask The Consumerists: How Do You Stay Calm When You're Being Wronged? - The Consumerist
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During the reign of King Philip II, Pope Pius V, appalled at the unconscionable carnage of the bullfights, forbade the practice of the corridas.
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But commandeering my computer for an entire week in order to hector me into giving them more personal information is unconscionable.
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This appears to either be a case of seeking tax exemptions (which makes less sense than for heterosexual couples capable of having children and the necessity for said exemptions that accompanies that) or for acknowledgement of their lifestyles as conscionable by the American people.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Kagan I Presume?
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At one extreme, I do not categorise it as unconscionable or extortionate: at the other, it is not standard or customary.
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A corporation must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is unconscionable within the meaning of the unwritten law - section 51AB.
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Moreover the fundamental principle that equity is concerned to prevent unconscionable conduct permeates all the elements of the doctrine.
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I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using "etymological" grounds for justification.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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They will likely include Kashmiri Peter Qasim, who has been in detention for an unconscionable seven years, as well as the Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers whose countries say they cannot, for now, take them back.
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I think it unconscionable that the Right is purposefully misleading people -- including scaring seniors into believing that Obama and the Democrats in Congress want to "euthanize" them!
Fact Check in the Health Care Debate
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Any time we make a conscionable effort at acquiring said Wardrobe we invariably become confused and disoriented and have to breathe deeply and then go eat a snack.
On Work Attire
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The appellant's case is, or can be, put in two ways, firstly, unconscionable conduct by the son affecting the building society, and, secondly, the unconscionable conduct by the building society itself.
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The former MBA students said the tuition increase was ‘unfair, unreasonable and unconscionable,’ and the university failed to consult them.
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an unconscionable liar
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In my opinion, it is unconscionable for a nation to send untrained or unready soldiers into battle.
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The man had some merit, but much unconscionable evil in him.
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Karen is well aware that the notion of sacrificing animals in a religious ritual strikes many people as unconscionable.
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Such contracts are not champertous and are upheld by the courts, but will be set aside if an unconscionable bargain be made with the client (_Deering_ v. _Scheyer_
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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I am disappointed in the deplorable, unconscionable way they are trying to make this a political issue.
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Nay, when he had his sword in his hand, his armies about him, and a cause to justify him before God and man, how did he choose to compound himself into nothing, to depose and unking himself, by their hard, unconscionable, unhuman conditions!
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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There were also the personal matters, which, as every young person knows, consume an unconscionable amount of time.
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Bush's religious right pals call preggers Mary Cheney "unconscionable
12/06/2006
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The Magistrate found firstly that they had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and also unconscionable conduct.
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How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society.
Harlan Ellison on God
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He uses what in Washington is sharp language (we could give 'em lessons down here), saying that this comment was "disgraceful," that remark "tragically flawed," and this action was "unconscionable" ... and he is very circumspect about his candidacy, avoiding the redolence of narcissism that seems to cling to most presidential candidates like the odor of a wet fart.
Stan Goff: PING & PONG: you are the ball
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In more recent times the Act has been extended to cover unconscionable conduct by business against business as well as by business against consumers.
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The world's leading solo Polar explorer - the only man to ski alone across both the Arctic and the Antarctic, a survivor of encounters with enemies as varied as ravenous bears and unconscionable loneliness - is quitting.
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And more and more facts coming out about the reality of the CIA having tortured and trying to twist that around to get people to accept that as something that is conscionable.
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Walking away from atrocities does not make them go away, and it is not conscionable morally or wise strategically ...
James Zogby: "Mister Smith" Leaves Washington
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To take this oath with you present, whilst you defy the First Sister, is unconscionable.
MEDALON
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The war caused an unconscionable amount of suffering.
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We affirm Judge Bridges's conclusion that severance is not possible because the four unconscionable terms pervade the dispute resolution section of the agreement.
Groklaw
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This personal and political avoidance of poverty issues is nearsighted and unconscionable.
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To define as ‘corporal punishment’ the mere physical separation of two combatants not only puts students at risk but also gives children unconscionable power over teachers who choose to intervene.
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All it promises now is deforestation, escalating world food prices, revolution and starvation. the only conscionable use for food is food.
Pig farmers warn of pork price rise as their feed costs soar
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Those (infrequently) “subjecting” you to pay are otherwise taking on unconscionable collective debt to pay for your utter unseriousness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”?
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So someone might be drunk and you get them to sign a contract, that's unconscionable, an unconscionable bargain and would be set aside.
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The assassinations seemed indiscriminate, unconscionable, and wild, but they were never mindless.
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They had both drunk an unconscionable quantity of red wine the previous night.
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It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . .
Notable & Quotable
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The rule has little force in circumstances such as the present where injunctive relief to prevent unconscionable conduct is the only substantive claim I can discern to be available to the appellant.
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What the Trade Practices Act does is make unconscionable conduct unacceptable to the law.
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These sorts of strong-arm tactics over what are really small-time offenses is really unconscionable.
RIAA punishes Brittany for resisting
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Although unconscionable conduct in this narrow sense bears some resemblance to the doctrine of undue influence, there is a difference between the two.
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The pity is that it probably was up until after 2000 and a blatantly dishonest, arrogantly self-focused, irresponsible and unconscionable sociopath was elected president and we see what that cost us.
Political family names bring shame as well as fame
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The war caused an unconscionable amount of suffering.
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It is an application for an equitable remedy to protect the plaintiff against the consequences of unconscionable conduct.
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Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity necessary and time wasting efforts of actual hard working scientists responding to an unconscionable attack on honest scholarship by a sine nobilis, bibliolatrous bunch of cultural miscreants.
No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb
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It's unconscionable for the government to do anything for a man who admits to smuggling 135 tons of cocaine into the United States.
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Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
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But although both doctrines show equity intervening to prevent unconscionable conduct, the special feature of the mutual wills and secret trust cases is that they involve not two parties but three.
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During the reign of King Philip II, Pope Pius V, appalled at the unconscionable carnage of the bullfights, forbade the practice of the corridas.
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Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
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She, quite rightly, is suing the government for its unconscionable treatment of her.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Viet Nam also set the precedent for the CIA to go well beyond any conscionable realm for their involvement in the murder of Diem.
Spook spotlight (Jack Bog's Blog)
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But the Bench refused to stay the proceedings after Jordan had contended he had been prejudiced by undue, unconscionable and inordinate delay since the raid two years ago.
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For the unconscionable fellow, owing to this coheirship which he pretends to disesteem, has been made privy to experiences which must not only have been extraordinary to so plain and humdrum a person, but which have been, as I happen to know, of great importance to him, and which -- to put the thing at its highest -- have lifted him, dull dog as he is, into regions where the very dogs have wings.
Lore of Proserpine
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The insured person is guilty of unconscionable conduct if he does not provide for the insurer to be recouped out of the damages awarded against the wrongdoer.
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How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society.
Harlan Ellison on God
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It alleged that the transaction was unconscionable, inequitable and unreasonable.
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On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public.
Rep. John Sarbanes: Key Tests Loom in Iraq and Afghanistan
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The unconscionable truth fused his mind, body and soul in a foreign uncertainty and the rhythm that had heretofore produced harmony in his life was now off-key.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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To take this oath with you present, whilst you defy the First Sister, is unconscionable.
MEDALON
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In my opinion, his Honour was correct in holding that it might be unconscionable to depart from those assumptions.
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Both are medically, ethically conscionable uses of a donated body.
Questions for Mary Roach, author of Stiff
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He's been a very successful campaigner, with moral indignation, about this unconscionable debt bondage that exists in the world today, and he's been a very effective campaigner from the outside.
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Unconscionable facial hair was involved, as were songs in which the male member was unironically compared to a pistol.
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This verdict is the result of the unconscionable manner in which the Justice Department lawyers conducted this trial.
Ted Stevens - Swampland - TIME.com
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I'm not that much of an unconscionable money grubber, really.
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unconscionable spending
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Furthermore, in order to assess the special disability and whether there has been unconscionable conduct, it is essential to also examine the actual actions of those against whom that conduct is impugned.
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The Trade Practices Act is basically about misleading or deceptive conduct, or unconscionable conduct.
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There is a functional overlap between undue influence and unconscionable dealing, although analytically the doctrines are distinct.
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She added: ‘Those who are attempting to impose their own theological perspective instead of applying proven public health practices are playing a deadly game; an unconscionable game.’
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What the Trade Practices Act does is make unconscionable conduct unacceptable to the law.
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This approach effectively permitted a defendant to reap the fruits of his own unconscionable conduct (subject to the latent damage provisions), and deprived the subsection of much practical substance.
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Their leaders have learned the hard way that, within their well-managed tropical island states, no election verdict, no constitutional custom or habit, no parliament’s decision, no ordinary citizen’s commonplace prerogative is safe from an intrusive America whose caprices and policies are neither fairer, nor more predictable, nor more morally conscionable than the vagaries of hurricanes.
Happy Independence Day, Haiti
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The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers.
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I think it's important that Government has the correct laws in place, and say where unconscionable conduct does occur, that action can be taken.
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The doctrine does not give relief for what is simply an unfair bargain - it has to be an unconscionable one, the terms of which show conduct shocking the conscience of the court.
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This unconscionable scandal must kindle the moral imagination and stir the conscience of the American public.
