Sentence examples for laws of decency from inspiring English sources

Above all, the production becomes topical in its jolting reminder that war acquires its own unstoppable logic: when a bunch of suits rush to shut up the bawling Clytemnestra you see how armed conflict suspends the laws of decency.

In 1802, the Reverend William Shepherd, the author of the only biography of Poggio in English, expressed his shock that "an apostolic secretary who enjoyed the friendship and esteem of the pontiff, should have published a number of stories which outrage the laws of decency, and put modesty to the blush".

His July Times article on the Mapplethorpe-Corcoran episode, "Is Art Above the Laws of Decency?," could be read as a disgorging of bitterness against contemporary art and its values, and was full of anger at the professional art world — a community that by and large has stopped listening to him.

In the segment, he reaffirmed that he believed the aldermen had "a law, the law of common sense, the law of morality, the law of decency [that] transcends the First Amendment".

The police told him that he was breaking the law of decency that says you don't scream outside sick people's windows with a megaphone.

A lot of that anger comes from a sense of betrayal and helplessness at seeing people who broke every law of decency living high on the hog while the rest of us are hard pressed to afford a swine flu shot (if we could find one).

Where he and his friends and colleagues are on boats and planes and at pool parties, totally free of the inhibitions that keep most of us adhering to the laws of common decency?

The artists served jail sentences for breaking laws of moral decency, public exposure, and degrading symbols of the state.

ME: What if the United States of America pointlessly and in violation of the laws of human decency tortured people, to try to develop a pretext to start a war in Iraq?

I don't know of any principle of international law or any other law of common decency that would allow that".

Then there's the universal law of human decency.