Sentences with phrase «about decency»

They are talking about decency, human rights, inclusion and world peace like never before.

A sense of decency may not be the first thing that comes to mind in connection with today's demagogues, but London voters recently sent a clear signal about their decency when they rejected the fear - mongering of one candidate by resoundingly electing his Muslim opponent.

Alice, in her childish but audacious way was completely taken in by the «count», and learned a bit about decency vs.materialism.

The film is quaint enough in its setting, quirky enough in its characterizations, and broad enough in its aims to serve as a kind of parable about decency and forgiveness.

White is always about decency, elegance, class, simplicity and beauty.

I thought that the death of this honorable man had finally taught New Labour a valuable lesson about decency and honesty in public life.

This should be about decency and justice — not false ideology.»

«This action is about decency and respect, and by raising the minimum wage for the dedicated men and women who fuel our regional economy, New York will continue to serve as a beacon of progress and opportunity for all.»

«It's a very important day today for the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative Party and the statement it will make about decency, consistency, core principles,» Lazio said.

i would urge all of those who care about the decency of human life to have there thoughts and prayers on this man.

Not exact matches

So arbitration is never intended for allegations about human decency; it's just been filtered into being used in that way.

There has been a lot of conservative commentary about his basic decency and class.

It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

just happens to be concerned with human beings, it's bound to be much more concerned about how we generally treat each other: you know, decency, concern, empathy --- all the things that are so important in this otherwise bleak and indifferent universe.

But it is a certain kind of self - disclosure — call it the ironic confession — in which graphic «over-sharing» violates the standards of decency that once enabled us to speak seriously about the possibility of someone's being «horrible.»

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

«I knew they did bad things; yet I saw them suffering — a person who chooses a way of life and did some bad things who still has decency about them.»

But regardless, I say that Dylan, for the sake of civilized and civic - minded decency, and yes, also on the grounds of hesitancy about so categorically pitting his young man's gut instinct against the experienced judgment of men like Kennan and Aron, should have aborted «Masters of War» before it ever emerged from his lips.

You see, they were going to do some rethinking — but then Donald Trump or Roy Moore or some idiot on Twitter said something mean about John McCain or George Bush or whomever, and now it is our moral responsibility to stop thinking and close ranks for the sake of basic decency.

You drop a proof text on us, ripped out of context, without enough decency or respect to even care about the impact of such an insult?

As Robert Sollard wrote recently in the Chronicle of Hiqher Education (as cited by Roth), «Much has been written about the loss of ethics, a sense of decency, moderation and fair play in American society.

The opinion was of a kind we are used to seeing by now from Justice Kennedy: long on windy rhetoric about «dignity» and ad hominem attacks on the basic human decency of the law's defenders, and short on actual coherent legal reasoning from recognizable constitutional principles.

«While it may not be a violation of the law - it may be an act of free speech - it certainly violates our sense of decency,» she added about the Florida event.

It's weird that Catholics can turn a deaf ear to child molestation and mob ties associated with Catholicism, but they condemn and criticize about morals and decency.

It's just about human decency and caring for your fellow man.

And lacking any experience of the moral realism and decency of most Americans, he tended to judge all of American society through the lens of heated political controversies and the usual intellectual complaints about the bourgeoisie.

When they die, we pay all that money for a funeral and they haven't even got the decency to come back as a ghost and tell us what the afterlife is like, but are never slow to bore the socks of us about it when they are alive.

Every time I hear someone start talking about how Christianity needs to be more «manly» or «masculine» - or, by contrast, less effeminate - it seems to come at the cost of basic politeness and human decency, of empathy and forgiveness.

Stories in the newspapers about religious leaders do not offend or persuade us simply because we bring to them certain educational levels and political inclinations; they offend or persuade because something in the stories signals to us that the reported event violates certain standards of common decency or that it can be understood within some familiar framework.

Look at the Nutritional Information on our products, and you will see that we are serious about the simplicity and decency of our ingredients.

How about human decency and just being civil and courteous?

I wonder what the people think about who voted for him, where their line is, how much they can take, where does the morality and decency kick in?

But someone else that had a little bit more decency about how they approach other people and other groups might have served better.

10 days left... I just can not see Wenger bringing 2 players... But I hope he will have the decency to bring a CB (forget about the DM... He is convinced, in his deluded and arrogant mind, he does not need one).

Go ahead and look and you will find one person after another making sweeping generalizations and assumptions, about who I am and what I believe, and then not even having the decency to apologize when they are shown to be wrong.

The way that you treat a server in a restaurant, for example, can teach your kids a lot about respect and decency.

Politics is about witticism and not hooliganism; it calls for decency, not their kind of impudence and bullying.

There are hard cases: advertising aimed at children, advertising that is an affront to decency and similar issues about advertising in a cultural context, but political advertising is not a hard case.

Guess what a good friend by name Selorm Kpade had to say about that: «An «insult» is when you preside over a failure and you have no decency to apologize for it but sadly you turn to «insult» the very people who have put their hard earned money in you trust....

Remember how I told you about his character and convictions, his decency and his grace, the traits that we've seen every day that he's served our country in the White House?

Here we begin to encounter party loyalties, with Conservative voters being the most prescriptive about moral standards for politicians, but also the most positive about the basic decency and honesty of «most politicians».

Its a decency issue, its a do the right thing issue, its about how the haves treat the have nots, its how the cynical treat the young.The campaign is cross party, and non party.

Who wants to be in a situation where someone who doesn't care about common decency can say anything they want?»

calm down libalibs, the people in this area for the most part lack morals, values, honesty, integrity, decency, and the ability to care about the lives of their fellow Americans, therefore it is impossible for a Demoncrat to lose.

In a statement, Cuomo said the policy was about «decency and respect» and said New York would «continue to serve as a beacon of progress and opportunity for all.»

As the film of her other half talking about «compassion» and «decency» did the rounds, actress Amanda Abbington tweeted:

«I don't know about you, but my values are about community, compassion, decency; that's how I was brought up.»

He added: «This demonstration today is about workers rights, it is about collective endeavour but above all, it's a declaration that we're around to campaign as long as it takes, to bring about that social justice and that decency in society.»

«He was only elected on 12 September, and our members — old, new, longstanding and new joiners — there's a sense of decency about this, and they say he needs time to set out his stall.