The person once closest to Ryan had no scruples about using Ryan's weaknesses against him. |
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They were at pains to point out that she had no such scruples later, and made her exit bareheaded. |
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He likens himself to the Puritan divines he studied in graduate school, whose religious scruples were part of their confession of faith. |
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The pagan deities' idols Baal and Ashera, on the other hand, had no such scruples. |
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But his rule was clouded by allegations of authoritarianism, corruption and a lack of scruples in dealing with his opponents. |
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I think it would be regarded as sacrilegious to bomb the World Heritage sites of Egypt, but I am not sure we have the same scruples about Iraq. |
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Or do those calculations of yours freely infringe the law of conservation of energy but have scruples about the conservation of mass? |
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But the ultimate example of Lincoln's constitutional scruples was emancipation. |
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Neither change has yet been enacted because political scruples intervened at some stage in the march of cynicism. |
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They had no scruples about the impurity of certain foods and some were non-vegetarian. |
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She certainly had no scruples about serving married men, but she had many about marrying herself. |
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In any case, it's already too late for Howard to start having doubts or scruples. |
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These scruples of mine are divisible into three points, which I shall, for your convenience, set out in a list. |
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Tilly was a good friend, but had no scruples about stealing your man, if she felt so inclined. |
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Sandy worried sometimes that she had after all let her desires override her scruples, but Nika's own determination bolstered her. |
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The social and ethical scruples thrown up by the science of new genetics are by now familiar. |
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He had no scruples using the plane to go to pay tribute to the soldiers there. |
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Due to the predominant scruples and the drastic penalties for violence against foreigners tourists are quite safe in China. |
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Nor could his opponents be quite as deficient in ability, intelligence and scruples as he says they are. |
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I don't believe he will, but perhaps I may overcome his conscientious scruples by bringing the matter up myself. |
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Conan Doyle had no scruples about bringing him back from the dead after he drowned with Moriarty in the Reichenbach Falls at the end of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. |
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It was then that we understood how weak we were in front of the board of directors of a multinational company that has no scruples. |
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Mengele has neither doubts about his hideous purpose or scruples about his heinous past. |
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Had it been anybody but Tessie I should not have bothered my head about scruples. |
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The movie takes us back to sci-fi of fantastic beasts, megalomaniac scientists and of course the eternal debate of science without scruples turning into a runaway train. |
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Success and social ascendancy favoured those lacking any scruples. |
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He asserted that the government had no scruples about divesting a majority of its shares in the telecoms companies, as long as it would increase their benefit to the country. |
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Stalin was of course a secular utopian and materialist, and Applebaum seems to have found no evidence that he ever had any moral scruples or hesitations about the Gulag. |
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It is only by imagining ourselves into the world of the early 19th century that we can begin to empathise with Fanny's scruples. |
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These CPV members who still have some scruples continue to claim adherence to Marxism-Leninism. |
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But Labour had no such statistical scruples when the figures were politically advantageous. |
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The terrorist group is recognized as a particularly ferocious one, which has few scruples about undertaking any action to advance its cause. |
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Men with without scruples, they used the young woman to sanction their political alliances. |
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Speaking to a broad and unsophisticated audience, he did not satisfy the scruples of some academicians, who found that he oversimplified complex problems. |
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Clearly, an army that killed so many children had no scruples nor did it understand human values. |
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They have few or no scruples about how they get what they want, be it wealth, power, the gratification of their passions, or their own interpretation of justice. |
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Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. |
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It is contrary to reason and to justice to require that people lay aside their scruples at the precise moment when those scruples are put to the test. |
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Once he has accepted a commission, there is no turning back, and he is clearly all too accustomed to whingey and panicky clients having second thoughts, and having to ride roughshod over their scruples. |
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No matter how low in the scale of power, the excluded tend to think that the only way out is to do as the persons who succeeded: to compete, with no holds barred, with no scruples, with no pity for the weaker. |
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Financial improvidence eventually destroyed his business, and his artistic scruples — the only kind he possessed — routinely jeopardized his deadlines and contracts. |
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The very grave and objectively immoral actions of Father Maciel, confirmed by incontrovertible testimonies, in some cases constitute real crimes and manifest a life devoid of scruples and authentic religious meaning. |
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In Secret Agent, moral scruples perturb the decent English while, killer and clown, Hispanic Peter Lorre finds the murder business ludicrously comic. |
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It is our role to stamp out easy money and businesses without scruples in maritime transport that damage the marine environment and its resources. |
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While we cannot deny a certain sincerity and sincere compassion for the victims of the attacks, it is hard to deny that the President of the Russian Federation had few scruples in capitalising on the event. |
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The partisans are not above sentimental scruples. |
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When two foreign banks, one Dutch, the other Spanish, launched contested takeover bids this year for a couple of Italy's smaller banks, Mr Fazio pretended that normal scruples would govern the outcome. |
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It is a formula that buys the party short-term comfort at the expense of long-term instability. Seven years ago the party abandoned its scruples about recruiting private entrepreneurs. |
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Thus, they have no scruples about paying someone for customer data. |
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The CPV members who still have some scruples can see the truth of this. |
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He was totally without scruples and was considered particularly dangerous. |
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On some occasions, the advice or demands of the Procurator General or of some Official of the Curia is misinterpreted thinking that it is simply a question of mere bureaucratic scruples. |
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I would highlight the very serious harmful consequences now and for the generations to come of the anything goes' policy and the lack of scruples of businessmen and organisations motivated solely by profit. |
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Justus partially overcame their scruples against work, and taught them that the black earth was rich in other produce than pignuts only. |
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In these roles, journalists often create enemies, many of them people who wield significant power in society, some of whom lack scruples or have even been involved in criminal activity. |
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Knowing that the Germans had discovered nuclear fission,he laid aside his moral scruples to develop the atom bomb. |
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However, all these solutions rely on self-interest, and, as such, they reduce the individual to a utility-maximizing servomechanism devoid of all ethical scruples. |
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But when the service of truth and the public good command, there are certain scruples which are immoral and certain charitablenesses which are dangerous. |
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