Sentence examples for one of decency from inspiring English sources

It would replace a policy of punitive deterrence with one of decency and put a stop to the hypocritical rhetoric that torture is justified in the name of saving lives at sea.

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope.

Instead, the freshness and lightness, mixed with intense, yet almost invisible, handwork, tapped into a different vein: one of decency, respect for women and a gentle beauty.

Their legacy is one of decency, humanity, compassion and public service and they will never be forgotten".

On the other hand, as official codes of censorship fell and internalized ones of decency slackened, Fuller's choreographed and abstracted violence lost currency beside the hyper-realistic blood being spilled in the films of Peckinpah, Penn, and Scorsese.

"Michael Baird, if you have one shred of decency in your hypocritical body, withdraw the [greyhound] legislation and start again," Jones had thundered in September.

Fry wrote: "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane.

On Twitter, Derren Brown has urged people to "complain where it matters", with a link to the Press Complaints Commission website; while Stephen Fry tweeted: "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane".

It would be a move in the direction of "the wages of decent living" — a performance, one might say, of decency itself.

If you are paying attention, each one of his assaults on decency, intelligence and knowledge will feel urgent, ridiculous or both.

No one with a shred of decency would claim that her professors, some of whom certainly shared the feelings of the Concerned Alumni, were handing out "A's" to her as a gift.