I doubt if my voice is loud enough to awaken a sleeping conscience here.

"I hope the efforts (of the OIC) will mobilize the sleeping consciences.

Nevertheless, it was, not least by Tony Blair, then the shadow home secretary, who called it a “hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation”.

Between the two of us, we may be able to reawaken his sleeping conscience and rouse his slumbering sense of duty.

Tony Blair, then an up-and-coming Opposition spokesman with a penchant for a pithy phrase, called it "a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation".

As shadow home secretary in 1993, future Prime Minister Tony Blair described the murder as "a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation".

Tony Blair, a Labor Party official, said the crime bulletins of recent days have been "like hammer blows struck against the sleeping conscience of the country."

The boys appalling case, he warns, is a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the country, while its message to feckless parents and dysfunctional families couldnt be clearer.

She had to wake the sleeping conscience of the House but she was tired, they were all tired, from struggling so hard against the current tides of public and private opinion.

Mr Cameron’s speech will draw inevitable comparisons with Tony Blair’s attack on the Tory government in 1993, when Labour’s then home affairs spokesman described the Bulger murder as “a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of society”.

Then Blair, as shadow home secretary, termed the tragic murder of young Jamie Bulger as “a hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of society” and warned of “moral chaos”; now Cameron has warned of “Britain’s broken society” in the wake of Rhys Evans’s murder in Liverpool.