Sentence examples for decency of its from inspiring English sources

But it has managed to limit both the rise in unemployment and the suffering of the most vulnerable; the social safety net has survived intact, as has the basic decency of its society.

He was a tall thin man, whose head with its long earlobes was austere in repose, as if it were carved out of hard ancient wood; to see him so boyishly eager was somehow compromising, like watching a tortoise bob its skinny neck out from the decency of its shell.

The $115,000 production, for which Loden spent six years raising money, was praised by Vincent Canby for "the absolute accuracy of its effects, the decency of its point of view and ... purity of technique".

It should use the influence it has in ASEAN both to promote these virtues, and to turn it into a club that enforces some minimum standards of decency on its members.

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.

D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, "The Birth of a Nation," which played to enthusiastic audiences, including President Woodrow Wilson, gave these sensibilities wide cultural sanction, with its depiction of Reconstruction's democratic impulses as a violation of white decency and its celebration of the Klan for saving the South and reuniting the nation.

"The independent counsel's office has repeatedly stepped over the line of decency in its quest to find something, anything, on the president of the United States.

Wheeldon, at twenty-eight, does not yet stand on that high peak, but one of the most striking features of his work is its sheer decency of feeling.

More imaginative and fair-sighted than most of his generation, Macmillan stood for much that is best in British political life - its decency and tolerance, its dislike of puritanism and cant.

But the question of its decency is more complicated.

Most crucially, she opposed Truman on military aid to Greece and Turkey, and said she voted for the Marshall Plan "because of its decency" and not "because of the cold war".