Sentence examples for everything decent from inspiring English sources

This flies in the face of everything decent.

The killers are soldiers in a war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance, pluralism, and the right to offend — against everything decent in a democratic society.

The news from Boston of complete innocents killed and maimed by remorseless fanatics makes me even less inclined to second-guess the "rough men" on whom everything decent ultimately depends.

In his first novel about Billy Boyle, James R. Benn labored a bit too strenuously to draw a picture of a young soldier-sleuth who epitomized everything decent and admirable about World War II America.

The theory says they must do such-and-such, so they do it, never mind the human consequences, never mind the social cost, never mind the terrible damage to the fabric of everything decent and humane.

But even if a polity does have moral legitimacy, a threat to its "survival and freedom" falls short of "an ultimate threat to everything decent in our lives".

That way everything's decent — he can't see, he can only guess".

Turkmenistan's first president, Saparmurat Niyazov, similarly insisted that his autobiographical "Ruhnama" contained everything any decent Turkmen needed to know.

That meant I was an important figure, there to make sure everything was decent.

Surely everything halfway decent has been already bought up and served on BBC4's 9pm Saturday-evening Nordic smorgasbord.

Once you have assigned everything a decent amount of time, you're free to welcome interruptions as the friends they are.