Sentences with phrase «basic human decency in»

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«Today's decision is disappointing and flies in the face of basic human decency,» Paxton said.

The girl in this situation was very brave and I commend that, while the boy was being a NORMAL gentleman whose parents taught him the most basic principles of human decency when it comes to treating women.

This is basic human decency which does not go nearly as far as God would require of us in loving our enemies.

I've traveled through different theologies, read countless books and commentaries, and have reached a point in my own personal journey where I honestly feel that way too many «serious» committed Christians put far too much emphasis on theological principles than they do basic human decency.

We need to stand up in the face of the threats we are seeing to our democracy and basic human decency.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

In these cases, your basic human decency may not serve you well; you may need to work at achieving and maintaining a comfortable working relationship.

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.

In this case, history and basic human decency tell us that answer is resoundingly «Yes.»

The fact that Lewis didn't do so — and that Ravitch tacitly agrees with her statements by approvingly publishing them in full — shows that both women are lacking both in civility, manners, and basic human decency.

In that game, if you met another human, there was always the possibility that you could team up and create an ad - hoc community — there was a tinge of optimism, of basic human decency.

I'd submit that if basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain it is inappropriate for you to be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain by identifying everything evil in the world as leftwing.

In any case, basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain, at least until the picture is really clear.