Sentences with phrase «against decency»

Also, be aware that indecent behaviour including mooning or wearing offensive fancy dress costumes could be deemed to be against decency laws.

What was once an offence against decency must be recast as something akin to a faux pas.

It was the book, taken as a whole, held up against history, held up against decency and hope, held up to the person I desired to be... I had to choose to cling to belief despite all of that and continue to fail to be a person of compassion and love or to begin to let go of that belief and make room in my heart for compassion and love.

Not exact matches

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The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

People will always go against God and decency but don't insult peoples» intelligence by saying that there were 52 MILLION abortions in backstreet clinics!

But it was Burke himself who tried to persuade the gentlemen of his day and party that they must defend themselves and political decency in general against theoretical currents that undermined the integrity of «sound practice.»

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.

Ironically, the very fact the bishops are making these «bold» statements is a testament to Israel's essential decency and humanity» the bishops know there will be no serious consequences or massive reprisals against Christians in Israel for «speaking out,» whereas any similar Christian criticism» or even questioning» of an Arab government in the region, or Islamic extremism, would» well, we all saw what happened after Regensburg.

To call policemen «pigs» or to stereotype them in other ways is only to express our own lack of civility and common decency which they, quite rightly, keep telling us is a symbol of the social disorder against which they stand as the last defense — a rather ambiguous position to be in, in any society.

Those same people will smile and applaud the bold choice of Rice without an ounce of irony, because this sport has so warped their brains that one minute they will side with the rules of the NCAA and the next minute against those of human decency, the Geneva Convention, and every tenet of even the loosest definition of human rights.

«This most recent incident — on top of ongoing allegations of discriminatory employment practices against women and a long, shameful record of aggressive hostility to worker's rights and basic decency — only strengthens the case against Wal - Mart's attempts to open locations in New York City.»

On a more hopeful note, the article describes ways in which Sunni and Shia neighbors are protecting each other from militia raids and assassins — moments of human decency outlined against a stark backdrop of horrific acts.

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

And no - one thinks of themselves as being against fairness or decency either.

I find it unthinkable that, contrary to these basic values, the views of 80 % of all economists and basic common sense and decency, there is actually a vocal movement against the notion of progressive taxation of income.

«The Mail managed to offend against taste and decency on multiple counts — attacking a man for his deceased father's views, misrepresenting those views, attacking a Jew, attacking a refugee from Hitler,» Moore wrote in this week's Spectator.

While frowning against the call for ban on hijab for security reasons in Nigeria, Ishola said hijab «promotes modesty, decency and seeks to minimize immorality within the society».

Today's celebration would, perhaps, have been impossible without his steely disposition to always stand against all acts not in consonance with decency, probity and justice.

We know that there are leaders in India who have the power, humanity, patriotism, and decency to speak out against this injustice.

Grindr has filed a motion to dismiss based on the Communications Decency Act that immunizes providers of interactive computer services against liability for information provided by other parties.

In recent months similar cases have been dismissed in courts in California and Texas against MySpace.com and Craiglist.com using the Communications Decency Act, a law which protects forum providers on the Internet against legal claims arising from posts made by third parties.

(Communications Decency Act protections against libel liability don't apply to the author of a posting, only to its host; if the site authored «felon» notices, it could still be liable.)

Lawsuit Against Online Dating App Grindr Dismissed Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Not too long ago (geologically speaking), white colored people started marauding around this continent on a genocidal rampage against the natives for not having the common decency to open up any burger chains.

The year itself was awful in an almost incalculable number of ways, but at least we had a ton of fantastic movies to distract us from the constant barrage against truth and decency.

In the end, the outrage one must feel about this crime against an individual who expressed human regard and decency is conveyed, and Nekrasov's dedication to tell as much of the story as he can is more than appropriate and duly recorded.

Many elements of this story ring true, from the way the men in the Hollar family are all a bit lost without their women to the unexpected decency of the banker who rejects Don's request for a loan, which turns what might have been a standard rant against rapacious bankers into a more resonant story of a good neighbor reluctantly doing a tough job.

The Board has written that the game was refused classification as one that depicts «matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»

Again playing against type in Stanley Kubrick's antiwar movie, Douglas brims with decency as a French colonel in World War I who fights against an unfair court martial of his men.

Both are dark moral fables that play Paxton's evident decency against Thornton's cracker stupidity and meanness until both eventually pull back to discover other, contradictory values in their characters.

For all its minor offenses against taste and decency, the sole unforgivable sin that «Mortdecai» commits is one that would leave its rakish anti-hero aghast.

I should reconcile myself at the outset to the fact that there is no point in listening to the fashionable egalitarian voices that maintain that private schooling is an offence against human decency.

«depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified.»

The report states this is «offensive or abhorrent in such a way that it offends against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that it should not be classified.»

Granted \ d, they've paid out a lot in settlements, but only to avoid landmark decisions against Communications Decency Act immunity

Lida Rodriguez - Taseff, one of the lawyers representing Joseph, told the Post-Gazette that her client is protected by the federal Communications Decency Act, which immunizes Web hosts against liability for messages posted by others.

Punitive damages are awarded against a defendant in exceptional cases for «malicious, oppressive and high - handed» misconduct that «offends the court's sense of decency»: Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130, at para. 196.

Recently, upon Google's request for the US District Court for Northern California's intervention, Justice Edward Davila took the position that due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — which prevents online platforms from being held responsible for content posted by others — the Canadian order could not be enforced against Google in the United States.

The Bill also bars enforcement of a judgment against an internet intermediary that would not be available in the US because of s. 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The American College of Trial Lawyers, the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers, the American Bar Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union will soon need to stand against the potential erosion of decency and justice.

On March 14, 2016, the First Circuit, in Doe v. Backpage.com, LLC, broadly interpreted the Communications Decency Act («CDA»), 47 U.S.C. § 230, to preclude claims brought against a website under the federal Trafficking Victims...

Facebook has claimed that it has immunity against liability for such discrimination under section 230 of the 1996 federal Communications Decency Act, which protects online publishers from liability for third - party content.

In 2016, a California state court dismissed felony pimping and conspiracy charges against Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer and the company's founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, on based on Communication Decency Act's qualified immunity for service providers.

With positive signs against corruption and inefficiency emerging in the early days of Ramaphosa's presidency, his SONA speech might sum it up best: «We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity, that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard - earned savings of ordinary people.»