Sentence examples for common decent from inspiring English sources

vandekamp "A film that celebrates a common, decent humanity in the face of prejudice and greed is rare.

However, the seed region is too small to distinguish cases of homoplasy from cases of common decent.

The convicts gave Australia a Lumpenproletariat; but success stories were common enough, and many convicts led decent lives.

Once again, the government's ideology is taking precedence over common sense and decent educational provision for children and young people".

This is a common feature on decent DLSR cameras and some high-end compacts.

In Britain, where a prime minister with a decent Commons majority has the power to act – and is expected to act – as a decisive, sometimes almost dictatorial figure, U-turns are usually seen by journalists and politicians as damaging humiliations.

In Britain, however, the ultimate ground rule is that "the Queen in parliament is sovereign", which in plain English means that a prime minister in possession of a decent Commons majority can do pretty well as they please.

Nary a cabin door closes before one of the lowest-common denominators of decent behavior are violated.

That theme is all about how the Democrats are elitist, celebrity whore-mongering, pointy-headed socialists who aren't patriotic enough, aren't hard working, and have nothing in common with all the decent people who quietly go about the business of fighting the nation's wars and working in its factories and farms.

Frankly, they were careless; they showed up on Horsell Common without spacesuits or decent air filters for their war machines.

But if he can mobilize a shared sense of outrage and a recognition that terrorism is the common enemy of all decent societies, his time will be well spent.