Sentence examples for a semblance of decency from inspiring English sources

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.

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

His later conversion to power-sharing and a semblance of basic human decency means Paisley can be seen as a deceptively benign figure, but at the time his tub-thumping speeches, naked sectarianism and skill at inciting trouble with a degree of deniability meant he was a dangerous man indeed.

"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.

"If animals are going to be killed for food," said Wayne Pacelle, the president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, "the least we can do is treat them with decency and give them a semblance of life".

Over time, a semblance of normalcy returned.

A semblance of normal life has returned.

A semblance of political comedy.

"I want a semblance of the truth.

"There is a semblance of normality in Freetown.

All those excuses have a semblance of truth.