Sentence examples for by decency from inspiring English sources

"Hearst's fate is ostracism by decency in life, and oblivion in death," he wrote.

But if he wants to win an outright majority, or even a second term of coalition, he must provide a more reassuring guide than pragmatism informed by decency".

As it turns out, the techniques the investigators considered seem unbounded by decency, common sense or even by a budget.

"Brought to you by Decency".

Moqadem's attorney attempted to have the bill written off, calling for "administrative requirements to be balanced by decency" given the nature of the tragedy.

It isn't that "The Wire" lacked for distinctive characters: Omar, the homicidal ethicist; Bubbles, the embattled addict; D'Angelo Barksdale, the doomed-by-decency street dealer — there were scores of them.

Saramago's Cain is a flawed Everyman, driven by survival, by ordinary decency and ordinary meanness, by sexual appetite.

As Lila learns in a dark, sweaty basement, attention is a lot easier to come by than decency.

..@POTUS has shown his conduct is driven not by honor, decency, or national security, but by prejudice.

It was a form that didn't come naturally to him, and seemed forced, but the book was redeemed by the decency and simplicity of its characters, by a naturalism that elegantly avoided the clichés of the naturalist novel, and by the stories themselves: minimalist and resolute, upbeat and gratuitous narratives, which captured the indomitable Argentine spirit.

He's a type himself, the born copper whose utter reliability hides his doubts and weaknesses, but he's unusual for being defined not by his competency or his demons but by his decency.