Sentence examples for Some semblance of decency from inspiring English sources

"There is still some semblance of decency — even if the story is sensational, there's no sensationalism about it," said Steven Stolman, a creative director at the preppy footwear company Jack Rogers and a longtime reader.

UNHCR and partners are doing all they can to ensure refugees have some semblance of comfort, nutrition and decency here.

Soft money, the corporate and personal contribution loophole, is in addition to this and has destroyed any semblance of decency or restraint.

I believe, as I assert relentlessly -- but with an army of evidence of all sorts to support my claim -- in The Philosophy of Childing that it will be up to our nation's children and youth to set an example of mature behavior if we're to emerge from these next years with even a semblance of decency and dignity.

The first mental hospitals were intended to provide a humane, protective environment, too, and there were "pockets of decency" in many of them, the late Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote in the New York Review of Books — especially in facilities that pursued some semblance of the Quaker example.

Some semblance of spring had momentarily arrived.

From begging for some semblance of justice?

Some semblance of orderly life worked wonders.

But I also wanted some semblance of tradition.

He gains some semblance of peace and spirituality.

I wish his family strength and some semblance of peace".