Sentence examples for elementary decency from inspiring English sources
One of the minor annoyances of building a new nation on a foundation that denies elementary decency and justice is finding enough to sing about to rill an entire national anthem, so our hat must come off to little Rhodesia.
His concluding sentence: "I say it as calmly as I can — the church should have had the elementary decency to let the earth lie lightly on this troubled and miserable lady, and not to invoke her long anguish to recruit the credulous to a blind faith in which she herself had long ceased to believe".
By Gordon Cotler The New Yorker, October 18 , 1969P. 47 One of the minor annoyances of building a new nation on a foundation that denies elementary decency and justice is finding enough to sing about to rill an entire national anthem, so our hat must come off to little Rhodesia.
The Murdoch empire is based on lies, criminal behavior, a lack of respect for elementary human decency, and a single-minded pursuit of its own self-interest.
The details, even five years later, are nauseating to read: After Tillman's death, Army commanders, aided and abetted by members of the Bush administration, violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side.
"There is a need to call upon the authorities in Kiev to abide by elementary norms of decency, to introduce a ceasefire, at least for a short time for the investigation to go on," he said.
Writer Herbert Steinhouse, who interviewed him in 1948, wrote that "Schindler's exceptional deeds stemmed from just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in.
Last year, he was accused of "outraging public decency" by standing outside an Oklahoma City elementary school with his pajama pants down.
Just to show how much their display of dominance will not be restrained by the niceties of good taste and basic human decency, the Starbucks in Newtown, Connecticut – the town that recently saw the horrific gun massacre of 26 elementary school children and teachers – was singled out by the guys-and-guns parade.
