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crisis of conscience

collocation in English

meanings of crisisand conscience


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crisis
noun
uk /ˈkraɪ.sɪs/ us /ˈkraɪ.sɪs/
a time of great disagreement, confusion, ...
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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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Examples of crisis of conscience


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Alternatively, a civil servant may face a crisisofconscience about policies or actions that he has been asked to carry out.
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For the moment, it suggests to me a crisisofconscience in his mind.
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During these last weeks every teacher has had to face a crisisofconscience.
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Suddenly, at 28 weeks, it becomes a major problem—a crisisofconscience, almost.
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If he had done so, he should have been able to see that he too might have a crisisofconscience.
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More immediately, of course, we face—or many people appear to face—a crisisofconscience about the immediate action to be pursued.
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Some of those who administer housing benefit will be faced with a crisisofconscience.
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We all know what his personal views are, and it may be that he is in some slight difficulty, or even a crisisofconscience, on this subject.
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That is an awful crisisofconscience.
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I had a crisisofconscience.
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There is a crisisofconscience.
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Bagley has a crisisofconscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania.
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This leads him to a crisisofconscience.
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This is not a crisis of thought, but a crisisofconscience.
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She agrees to the deal but has a crisisofconscience, and does not believe she or anyone else should be turned into a product.
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Karl agrees to make his act for the finale a medium display, but begins to suffer a crisisofconscience.
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Mabuti suffers a crisisofconscience after she comes upon a bag of moneymillions of pesos, at that.
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He later has a crisisofconscience.
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Fletcher then has a crisisofconscience and shouts at the judge to reverse the decision, and is taken to jail for contempt of court.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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