Sentences with phrase «decency means»

Of course, in a movie like «Happy Death Day» this sort character detail of what should be common human decency means Carter is the nice guy love interest.

Feedback's inherent decency means that we won't be giving the name of the doctor of chemistry who sent us his card from Switzerland the other day.

Our vote, our opinion and common decency meant nothing to them.

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Interesting how having faith means setting aside all normal human decency and refusing others rights to interpret the «word of god» as they feel is right and correct.

@ Ken, just because one doesn't believe in creationism does not mean one lacks human decency where they become immoral.

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.

But goodness and decency and wisdom must have a world purpose in our time if life and thought are to have any meaning at all.

this is not so as Yeshua In Hebrew can not be translated and let me say that Yeshua in Hebrew means Salvation and soter is greek for salvation so the christians didn't even have the decency to translate correctly and so there is no anglicised version on of isous and that is a completely invented by man and so a deception by the christians.

But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.

I mean do what you want with adult costumes but with kid's costumes at least show some decency.

«In New York, you are not alone, and every person in the state of New York with any decency and understanding of what it means to be a New Yorker stands with you at this moment,»» Cuomo told a gathering of Jewish school students.

«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.

Not having a sense of humour, or having the wrong sense of humour and by wrong I mean offensive, lacking taste and decency is for most of us a big no - n0

Way back when the Greatest Generation were courting, a good first impression meant attaining a base level of hygiene and human decency.

The trick was to allow the decency that's in Sam to bubble through into this mean brute of a character so that he wouldn't be the simple villain.»

They are well - meaning folk who want to do the right thing but who have strayed from a path of decency out of desperation, and so they garner a degree of sympathy.

But we are meant to take solace in the professionalism and decency of Tam (Zhang Ziyi), the most fluent of the many Mandarin speakers on board, and Monk (John Ortiz), the team's God - fearing conscience, as well as the comic relief supplied by Mundy (Chris O'Dowd).

But «nice» and «good» are two different things, and though Mildred makes many choices that are reprehensible or downright dangerous, McDormand never fails to convince us of the fundamental decency of this woman, a tragic heroine struggling to find even the tiniest scrap of meaning in a comically awful world.

A lot of folks don't like the ending, but it ties up all the loose ends (certainly not in a way we hope for and expect) and solidifies everything that has come before it as one man's fruitless search for meaning and decency in a world that seems to deny us sense and civility on a daily basis.

It is meant to evoke patriotism and decency, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann, goodness, virtue, and the American way.

I personally don't believe in being rude online or in real life and try to keep myself polite and well meaning but when you see someone telling people that they should be killed its upsetting and I can fully understand why people don't feel like treating him with respect and decency.

The slogan getting back to basics might well be dusted off and used to mean teaching the basic fundamentals of human decency instead of the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic!

Recent press stories about the reasons behind O'Reilly's ouster shine an ironic light on his newest book, Old School: Life in the Sane Lane (Macmillan / Holt; Macmillan Audio; OverDrive Sample), which Janet Maslin described in her NYT review as «meant to set forth the code of decency, honor and determination that made O'Reilly what he is today.»

The Communications Decency Act was not meant to create a lawless noman's - land on the Internet.

Sterling Ruby This Light Stuttgart, part of Techne and the Decency of Means Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany 12 Nov. 2017 — 21 Jan. 2018 www.kuenstlerhaus.de

Recent exhibitions include Techne and the Decency of Means at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2017), Dreamlands at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2017), the Gwangju Biennial (2016), the Berlin Biennial (2016), the Bucharest Biennial (2016), Bread and Roses at the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (2016), and On Sweat, Paper and Porcelain at CCS Bard in Annandale - on - Hudson, New York (2015).

On the question of the meaning of outraging public decency, Lord Simon opined:

California law defines «outrageous» behavior to mean «conduct so extreme that it goes beyond all possible bounds of decency.»

«The criterion which must be applied in order to determine whether a punishment is cruel and unusual within the meaning of s. 12 of the Charter is, to use the words of Laskin C.J. in Miller and Cockriell, supra, at p. 688, «whether the punishment prescribed is so excessive as to outrage standards of decency.»

Honor, at the least, means not exploiting the trust of vulnerable others for your own advantage — including strangers — who are relying on certain basic standards of human decency.