conscience clause

collocation in English

meaningsofconscienceandclause

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conscience
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəns/
the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel ...
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clause
noun[C]
uk
/klɔːz/us
/klɑːz/
law
a particular part of a written legal document, for example a law passed by Parliament or a contract (= ...
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(Definition ofconscienceandclausefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconscience clause

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We have received very few complaints about the operation of theconscienceclause, which indicates that the issue is being dealt with sensitively and sensibly.
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That was not so foolish as it seemed, for no school was actually excluded, and of course theconscienceclausealways prevailed.
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If there has to be one, it should be because the overwhelming majority of workers want it and it should allow for aconscienceclause.
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They must, indeed, be protected, as of course they actually are, by aconscienceclause.
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We also have a responsibility to doctors to respect theirconscienceclause.
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That should be properly taken account of in aconscienceclause.
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In that context, theconscienceclauseis the only way out for someone who seriously objects to something which the union is doing.
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It would be tragic if the inclusion of aconscienceclausehere were taken legally to imply its exclusion elsewhere.
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In any re-organisation theconscienceclausemust, of course, be retained.
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That would inevitably be the case, precisely because this is aconscienceclause.
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Opting out, with aconscienceclause, denies those students access to services which should be theirs, as of right, on campus.
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The third and possibly most important of all was his point about it being aconscienceclause.
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We insist that they have aconscienceclause.
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There was aconscienceclausewhich did nobody any harm and nobody any good.
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The words of the amendment are a transitionalconscienceclause.
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There is aconscienceclausefor people who find themselves in difficulties with the closed shop.
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This is theconscienceclausefor a whole community.
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They allow for toleration in practice of the individual objector even where no formalconscienceclauseis written into any agreement.
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We have discussed on many occasions the so-calledconscienceclause.
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Aconscienceclauseand a closed-shop situation is one of them.
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