Sentences with phrase «basic decency»

He's right that the rule of law — not to mention basic decency — ought to land every torturer in federal prison.

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

It wasn't just a legal victory or moral victory, but a victory for basic decency and humanity in the United States, where men and women, no matter of their sexual orientation, deserved the same rights constitutionally as anyone else.

Because insurers rarely let basic decency guide their behavior — for example, an adjuster may use an entirely innocent statement against you, jeopardizing your ability to receive adequate damages — it's usually best to avoid speaking to them altogether.

But the tweet spoke to something much deeper in the Conservative campaign, a lack of honour or basic decency in the way it is conducted.

And in the absence of that basic decency, it's up to women ourselves, and the men who agree that we're people, to say that Trump's misogyny has gone on for too long and has finally gone too far.

At one point it says that the basic decency of President George W. Bush was «never in doubt.»

Granted that the FORTUNE Survey, above quoted, demonstrates the ability of the American people to suffer Klan propaganda and Silver Shin propaganda and the propaganda of the Nazis and still maintain common sense and basic decency.

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

U.S. low - intensity - conflict planners fear the basic decency of the U.S. people.

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.

This basic decency, which refused to be taken captive by political or philosophical partisans, made him unique in French intellectual circles.

«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.»

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».

The Labour manifesto does not even do people the basic decency of confirming this fact, but reveals it implicitly.

«Clearly it would be in defiance of basic decency, it would be in defiance of what the independent formal process has recommended... and defiance of me and defiance of the president of the party.

«Raising the minimum wage will mean restoring opportunity and basic decency to workers and families across the state who are struggling to get by,» Cuomo said.

«Raising the minimum wage will mean restoring opportunity and basic decency to workers and families across the state who are struggling to get by,» Gov. Cuomo said.

He had been holding the most Democratic district occupied by any Republican precisely because of his integrity and basic decency.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has told Daybreak that Lord Rennard «would be in defiance of basic decency» if he returned to the Lords today without an apology to the women in his party offended by his behaviour.

They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Dixon, particularly, must find forgiveness from people he has hurt, and it comes to him through small acts of kindness, from being shown a basic decency he has never shown anyone himself.

That negative current shines a light on the basic decency of Dumbo and his mother and makes us root for them not to be defeated by this cruel world.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

The Act of Killing Year: 2012 Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Some tragedies are so horrific that it's hard to reconcile one's belief in the basic decency of human beings with the atrocities that some of them have perpetrated.

He harks back to end - of - the - empire fare like The Lady Vanishes, aping that picture's climax and then commenting a time or two on the idea that basic decency, today rare in the human species, was nearing its extinction generations ago, doomed by tradition and manners.

The comedy comes from Harold's basic decency and his naïveté about the people around him.

Pauline Kael affectionately wrote: «Concerned with adolescent experience seen in terms of flatlands anomie — loneliness, ignorance about sex, confusion about one's aims in life — the movie has a basic decency of feeling, with people relating to one another, sometimes on very simple levels, and becoming miserable when they can't relate.»

From not pleasuring a dog on a film set, to a man coming out as being attracted to his wife — men are given mountains of credit for acts of basic decency

As a Baptist minister, the Rev. Johnny Scott professes a deep faith in the basic decency of the people of East St. Louis, Ill..

But to deny the basic decency of seeking a way to maximize the benefit of aid / development dollars is really stupid and terrifically immoral, IMHO.

The overwhelming parliamentary support witnessed again this week for the legalisation of same sex civil partnerships arises from the basic decency and generosity of the Irish people.