Sentence examples for degree of decency from inspiring English sources
As a trade unionist and then a Labour MP, Norman Atkinson, who has died aged 90, displayed the unusual degree of decency, integrity and brave candour typical of the most talented figures to come from a working-class background.
Dr. King described two phases of the civil rights struggle: "The first phase has been a struggle to treat the Negro with a degree of decency, not of equality..
Thus, President Obama's plea at last week's prayer breakfast for those who believe in prayer to also believe in treating each other in the political arena with at least a degree of civility, respect, and decency.
The suit said the captain's abandonment of the ship before all the passengers were evacuated was "so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency".
Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.
That's stretching the limits of decency to breaking point.
Disrespect for bourgeois notions of decency was precisely the point.
They can choose any subject they want to write about, within the bounds of decency and appropriate journalistic inquiry (although we do ask them, with varying degrees of lack of success, to avoid directly endorsing a candidate for office).
You offenders of decency.
This insidious note of decency depresses us.
