Sentence examples for rule of decency from inspiring English sources

The hero rebels and, in the end, the people gather together to fight their oppressors, overthrow the aliens and return the country to the rule of decency and justice.

The point that many of us attempt to make to young people on a daily basis — one that is contradicted almost daily — is that wealth and power, or one's ability to run and jump, should not put individuals above the rule of decency, if not law.

Of course swearing would be fruitless were there not unspoken rules of decency and acceptability in everyday life.

We are not only breaking all the common rules of decency, we've breached our obligations under the refugee convention.

Sitting pretty Vultures and hyenas ReprintsSamuel Kimeu of Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption monitor, accused Kenya's MPs of "disregarding all rules of decency".

Asking the same question even two times … is considered to be a crude violation of the protocol and the rules of decency," wrote Aleksandr Minkin, a veteran Russian reporter.

To really rattle Webloyalty, sites like Movietickets.com would have to ditch it or require it to abide by some common-sense rules of decency.

Apparently, it lets you bypass the common rules of decency, and the airline-smoking ban that went into effect 20 years ago.

Were it not for "grandfathering", the dump's proximity would break every rule of the city, never mind the rules of decency and common sense.

In our self-searching afterward -- for a moment -- we see more clearly than usual the unenforceable rules of decency and civility our communities live by.

Graves dramatised the enthusiasm for the women's race for a Holland shift displayed on a pole: "six young women began to exhibit themselves before the whole assembly, in a dress hardly reconcilable to the rules of decency".