Sentence examples for Violation of decency from inspiring English sources

And while these expressions of North Korean love may seem conservative to a western viewer, they reflect real social norms in a country where even kissing in public is a violation of decency.

Christianity, he argued, was an integral part of the law of the land, and blasphemy that "insulted" that religion was "a gross violation of decency and good order".

At the minor end of the spectrum ― crimes in violation of decency, if not statute ― there is the president's encouragement of white supremacists, use of eliminationist rhetoric and praise for actions of genocide.

But the worst violation of decency goes to Spike Lee's wife, Tonya Lewis, who was wearing an incomprehensibly large and grotesque fur (if 75 small animals lose their lives for a basic fur coat, I'm afraid to take a stab, pardon the pun, at how many died for this one).

Our inhumane treatment of those seeking refugee status, our support for illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and many more violations of decency are obvious.

From CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Glamour Magazine, Miami Herald, the AP, Bloomburg, LA Times, The Philidelphia Inquier and dozens of blogs and hometown papers, we have been asked hundreds of questions, some of which are good journalism tactics, and many of which are horrific invasions of privacy and violations of decency.

D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, "The Birth of a Nation," which played to enthusiastic audiences, including President Woodrow Wilson, gave these sensibilities wide cultural sanction, with its depiction of Reconstruction's democratic impulses as a violation of white decency and its celebration of the Klan for saving the South and reuniting the nation.

The allegations against MDC Brooklyn are "a violation of human decency and dignity," said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

To me, this is the most basic and the most obvious violation of the decency of LGBT people.

It also brought Tankersley and her paper to the attention of the United States Senate, where the paper's treatment of Tydings was viewed as a violation of "simple decency and honesty" and "a shocking abuse of the spirit and intent of the First Amendment of the Constitution".

Even among those guards who initially resisted the aggression, all eventually rationalized their decision to join ranks with authoritarian guards, and all soon rationalized their behavior as legitimate due to the behavior of the one being punished -- even when the one being punished had clearly done nothing wrong and the punishment was by any standard a violation of human decency.