Sentence examples for out of common decency from inspiring English sources

"Just out of common decency they should apologize.

One is obliged to prevent a drunken guest from driving himself home not only out of common decency but "because the host can be sued for serving liquor to an intoxicated person who ends up having an accident".

And yet to travel the United States in this age of insecurity, with the basic bargain of middle-class life seemingly under assault, is to marvel at the persistence of faith in some larger system; belief that hard work must be rewarded, if only out of common decency.

If Americans really understood the essence of the Ryan/Greenspan/Randian ideology of utter selfishness, they would reject it out of hand in the name of common decency and justice.

Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting.

It added: "Out of respect for the families, and as a matter of common decency, we have given time for mourning, prayer and a full investigation of the facts before commenting".

There are principles of common decency which do the same.

It's just one of common decency and respect – let those at rest stay at rest".

These actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency.

— that it was shutting its big mouth "as a matter of common decency".

Assess them on the basis of the "pillars of common decency".