Sentences with phrase «decency requires»

Or if he has, he's failed to do so to my face, and I'm just one of the people to whom basic decency requires Dana to say something, or would require him to say something if he himself were basically decent, which is the very assumption I'm challenging here.

Basic patriotic decency requires that she now condemn Trump's comments.

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.

I leave it to you to work out whether decency requires that you withdraw your remark.

But you get the point that decency requires a bit of moderation in things that are incongruous with normal business practices.

Not exact matches

But social dynamism requires the pillars of social decency; economic growth will not long survive if families are weakened in the process.

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

A return to normality required «women who will lead us back to an... old fashioned decency... to old fashioned purity and sweetness for the sake of the next generation.

In the meantime, common decency surely requires us to grant them the privacy and anonymity that D'Arrigo has attempted, in the hope that at some future date they may be rehabilitated.

For example, the offence of outraging public decency criminalises lewd, obscene or disgusting behaviour committed in public, but requires for the act to have taken place in the presence of two or more people.

Moreover, the purpose of the requirement that the act be of such a kind that it outraged public decency went to setting a standard which the jury had to judge by reference to contemporary standards; it did not require that someone saw the act and was outraged.