Sentence examples for an act of decency from inspiring English sources

The Tigers and Manager Jim Leyland acknowledged that before Thursday's game with the Cleveland Indians by sending out Galarraga with the lineup card to hand to Joyce, an act of decency that should inform all fans.

It shouldn't be breaking news when a member of your political tribe commits an act of decency.

In the last few years, he cried easily often to the embarrassment of our daughters talking about an act of decency or moment of applause, remembering Martin Luther King, President Kennedy, his father.

We were so busy judging others that we automatically rejected any act of decency from people who just wanted to understand our culture.

A new statutory right for bereaved parents to have time off work is an act of common decency.

As I prepared to write about an act of uncommon decency by a professional athlete, I realized that calling it that was unfair, that it diminishes what happened, because this was simply an act of uncommon decency, period.

For these people, such work is not a matter of gift-giving, but an act of common decency.

McDonagh's ordeal begins during Hurricane Katrina, when he injures his back committing a reckless act of decency in the line of duty, freeing a prisoner from lockdown as the waters rise.

"The punishment did not fit the crime," one of their lawyers, Charles Stillman, said yesterday, "and so the act of commuting the sentence is an act of compassion and decency".

What Delbanco wishes to preserve may be the moment when a London neighbor brings plum jam during Ben's difficult wartime birth -- an act of unconditional English decency that becomes enshrined in the family's stories -- or it may be when Ben looks for the last time on an aging link with his childhood.

Their basic act of decency is an ethical revolution; people do not surrender as easily as governments do.