Sentence examples for concept of decency from inspiring English sources

As Reich points out, whatever the minimum wage's limitations may be as a policy instrument, as an idea "it demarcates our concept of decency with regard to work".

They are a foundation of our society, and when they are attacked, it is an attack on the very concept of decency".

Coastal resorts became sites of conflict over access and use as well as over concepts of decency and excess.

In "The Untouchables," Mr. De Palma is constantly teetering on the edge of offensiveness to credibility, conventional concepts of decency and movie manners.

The ordinary concepts of decency and cruelty are somehow inverted, resulting in terror and confusion among the guards and an almost beatific calm in the ranks of the inmates.

As 2016 choked-out our concepts of decency and democracy, Goldsmith was there with us, pummelling his own face like a trust-fund Tyson Fury.

The law, and more importantly the most basic concepts of human decency and human dignity demand it.

But turning to the concept of "community standards" of decency in defining pornography, they noted the virtual impossibility of a Web site meeting the standards of, say, Chicago, Amsterdam and Tehran at the same time.

Perhaps they don't understand the concept of simple privacy and decency.

The Washington Post respects taste and decency, understanding that society's concepts of taste and decency are constantly changing.

Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.