Sentence examples for civil decency from inspiring English sources

"All this goes beyond the limits of political and civil decency".

Jean's betrayal of her for Julie may be odious, but it will not distract her from a steady, skeptical determination to observe the rules of civil decency even if they are indefensible.

These are the wages of a presidential campaign based on hatred, and one that blithely restored to the mainstream language and idiom that had been (one thought) driven out over the years by civil decency.

Liotard is a pioneer of Enlightenment art – the smile, such a rarity in traditional portraiture (that's why the Mona Lisa is so unusual) presides over this show with its message of benevolence, civil decency and good sense.

In their cafeteria, Michigan middle schoolers chant "build a wall!" These are the wages of a presidential campaign based on hatred, and one that blithely restored to the mainstream language and idiom that had been (one thought) driven out over the years by civil decency.

Things like the freedom of the press, human rights, civil decency, cultural diversity".

As Mr. Rich recommends, Democrats, including Al Gore, must speak out and work to preserve the civil liberties, common decencies and rule of law that America has traditionally represented.

In any liberal democracy, the ultimate guardian of decency and civil liberties is an active civil society, which can push back against efforts to mislead the public, flout accepted norms, and centralize power.

Retaining Bob Knight, the abusive basketball coach at Indiana University, with a slap on the wrist (editorial, May 16) for infractions that would result in dismissal, not to mention criminal prosecution, in any industry but sports sends the message that winning is valued above rules, civil behavior and common decency.

But no one in the media would dare call him a "moderate" or "not out of the hard right" because some of his expressed views -- whether he truly believes them or not -- are a threat to civil rights and basic decency.

In the early sixties, Patterson cast himself as the Good Negro — an approachable yet strangely fearful man, a deferential champion of civil rights, integration, and Christian decency.