Sentence examples for great decency from inspiring English sources

"Peter was a young man of great decency who possessed an incredible work ethic.

Beloved of all his family, tireless and passionate worker for his country, avid cyclist, U.S. Navy pilot, possessed of great decency and a memorable sense of humor.

Barack Obama, 2010: It's because of this spirit, this great decency and great strength, that I have never been more hopeful about America's future than I am tonight.

Goodman wrote lucidly, compassionately and wisely: he was a leading figure of the old Fleet Street who cast a light of great decency.

It's because of this spirit -– this great decency and great strength -– that I have never been more hopeful about America's future than I am tonight.

It's that I've seen great decency among people who may, nevertheless, have some presuppositions or biases about African-Americans or Latinos or women or gays.

I should have had the good grace and greater decency to have not spent the years between 1997-2007 constrying toying to undermine Tony Blair and push him out in order to grab what I felt was my birth-right.

The U.S. military executed its war plan with great efficiency and decency.

There's a great kindness and decency behind that persona on TV".

So, here's what's controversial: John Boehner, and the Gibbopotamaus [Robert Gibbs, presumably] yesterday in one of his parting shots from the Gibbopotamous pool … he decided to chime in again on the great assault against decency.

As professor of political philosophy at Glasgow, Dudley demonstrated great kindness and decency, but also a shrewdness about people that stood him in good stead as head of department and as warden of the Queen Margaret hall of residence.