Sentence examples for a minimal of decency from inspiring English sources

If he has a minimal of decency, he will resign in the next few days".

The crisis in Burma shows that there is a minimal standard of decency to which even China, though it might not care a bit in principle, has at least to pay lip service if it wants to sit at the table with the democracies.

This is a man who has to pay people to tell him how to exhibit even a minimal level of decency and maturity.

Empathy is a minimal requirement of human decency, not one that should be directed by a political party".

What are the minimal standards of decency our government owes our enemies when they are in our hands, notwithstanding the clear menace revealed by 9/11?

"There are minimal standards of decency and legitimacy that apply to all contemporary regimes, but they are not liberal values writ large".

"Even if the situation is better than where they were, that doesn't mean there shouldn't be minimal standards of decency on how you treat people".

Catching bad guys is important, but it is not the only thing this society values; we also care about certain minimal standards of decency in the government's treatment of citizens and limits on the authority of the state.

The law wants more -- it wants the cops to catch bad guys, all right, but it wants them to do it fairly, with convincing evidence that they have gathered while respecting the minimal standards of decency we call "rights".

We can afford this minimal level of decency.

Central to that practice has been the idea that victims should be able to find out as much as possible about the circumstances of the abuses that occurred -- in terms of specific attacks and also the underlying social and institutional patterns and relations that gave rise to flagrant disregard for minimal standards of decency.