The phrase "a measure of decency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing standards of behavior or morality, often in a context where one is evaluating actions or attitudes.
Example: "In today's society, it seems that a measure of decency is often overlooked in favor of sensationalism."
Alternatives: "a standard of decency" or "a level of decency".
He wants a measure of decency and grace to be embedded in our lives.
If this continues, a third party will emerge, committed to cleaning up American politics and restoring a measure of decency and fairness.
Few things matter more than restoring a measure of decency to democracy, as a step towards regaining public support for politics.
After his experiment in bringing a measure of decency to the mine ends in personal catastrophe redeemed by a partial moral victory, he is conscripted into the army, where he tries, once again, to bring a measure of fairness and dignity to a system built on the corruption, coercion and the humiliation of the weak.
Yet the Republicans pulled out all the stops and abandoned any measure of decency in trying to blame Benghazi on Hillary Clinton for the political purpose of destroying her presidential candidacy.
Obama signed a number of important pieces of legislation, especially the Recovery Act, he headed off the very real possibility of long-term depression, he cleared the toxic air of anti-Americanism in many parts of the world, he brought a measure of sanity and decency to the war on terror.
And those who smirk at education and at striving to live by some measure of decency and self-respect could not have any real sense of connectedness to the collective of Africans in America who came before us.
"Senator Craig, Suzanne, their children and grandchildren need, and I suggest are due, a measure of grace, dignity and Idaho-style decency that has been missing in their life recently," Mr. Sali said in a written statement his office released later in the day.
It's perhaps a measure of time passing: in the Albee, she has the decency to do so off stage.
It is a measure of Gould's zest for life, and his belief in ordinary human decency, that he nevertheless manages to wring a thoroughly fulfilling book from this miasma of misery.
These kinds of statistics are not just a deep embarrassment to a country that believes itself to observe certain measures of decency, they are the figures that will determine our economic competitiveness in the 2020s.
