Sentences with phrase «civilised standards»

He's not only a corporate shill of the worst kind, but a walking offence to civilised standards of behavior.

It is time to modernise the WTO and the world trade system and give nation states the right to safeguard their markets against meat imports produced in third countries to less civilised standards.

The very act of living a decent and upright life is in itself a positive factor in maintaining civilised standards.»

«The stature of the prophet of mercy and humanitarianism is greater and more lofty than to be harmed by cartoons that are unrestrained by decency and civilised standards,» it said.

Not exact matches

Hospice care for the dying should, in a civilised society, be provided as standard for all who need it.

And uncivilised peoples, moreover, were not owed the same standard of conduct as the civilised.

Emerging as an element of the European «standard of civilization» in the 19th century, the laws of war were meant, in part, to distinguish «civilised» Europe from the «uncivilised» rest of the world.

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.