Sentence examples for Standard of civility from inspiring English sources

But all should be expected to live up to a higher standard of civility than that displayed by TV loudmouths.

"Quite the contrary," Judge Engelmayer wrote, noting that testimony and evidence in the case showed that the authority "has aspired to hold ads on public buses to a standard of civility.

The purpose of this coaching is to create a pocket of excellence: a "gold standard" of civility that will serve as a reference point throughout your workplace.

His tweets, it subsequently claimed, failed to meet its standard of civility.

While O'Neal's garbled, exaggerated approximations of Asian speech insulted Americans, Asian and otherwise, Yao pleaded ignorance to our standards of civility and decorum.

And when the papers were exceedingly coarse, brash, or harshly militant — that is, when they violated even the counterculture's loose standards of civility and propriety — they gave people good cause to turn their noses at the movement.

The idea that the internet has cheapened debate and lowered standards of civility is commonly advanced, but the tone of debate is often modelled by mainstream media and merely copied by those who comment and post on public platforms.

And when the papers were exceedingly coarse, brash, or harshly militant that is, when they violated even the counterculture's loose standards of civility and propriety they gave people good cause to turn their noses at the movement.

Nonetheless, the central thrust of Mr. Sleeper's question will resonate in many New Yorkers: that something has gone terribly wrong in our city - and, by extension, in many troubled communities across the land; that we have let our standards of civility and truth waste dangerously away; that we are awash in poisonous tides we seem powerless to beat back.

Cheaper and more readily available alcohol, changing drinking patterns, a steep increase in drinking among young women and a decline in old standards of civility have turned what was once a manageable part of life into a problem that costs society, according to government estimates, $35 billion a year.

Institutions and individuals choosing to maintain their usual standards of civility, despite the loud insistence of mob mentality, are to be commended, not vilified.