Sentences with phrase «decency where»

Thus in Sedley's case (1675) Strange 168, 1 Sid 168, the defendant pleaded guilty to outraging public decency where he had appeared naked on the balcony of a house and had urinated on several people present.

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

Not exact matches

If he had some decency and humanity in him he would have chosen another place far far away from the place where this most evil deed took place.

Technological change, above all, doomed the fight for decency in American popular culture, as every successive technological innovation weakened the power of regulators, moral and otherwise, while expanding the venues where human weakness could be exploited for fun and profit (mainly the latter).

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.

I therefore have to wonder right now, if the thoughts running through my head - and I am surely not alone in this — disqualify me from decency, where Wenger is concerned.

I wonder what the people think about who voted for him, where their line is, how much they can take, where does the morality and decency kick in?

In the past I've wrote to the PGMOL where I got no reply and also the Football Ombudsman who did have the decency to reply with «I see nothing sinister here» asking if this was fair practise, even though I pointed out they'ed all been appointed by the most corrupt, in my opinion, official ever to officiate in the Premier League.

Where's YOUR human decency?

Let's take for example, every university is established to promote excellence as excellence comes with hard work, diligence, academic culture, decency, probity and accountability and if these things were lacking before I came, I have ensured that we go back to academic culture where we have respect for one another, academic culture where we are honest, academic culture where students are mannered.

After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

Who wants to be in a situation where someone who doesn't care about common decency can say anything they want?»

Of particular interest are the US and Europe where decency, order and finesse have been brought into electioneering, mobilization, polling, survey, fund raising and other critical tools for seeking elective positions.

It was the President's fervent hope that the deep love Queen Elizabeth shown for the Commonwealth «will continue to light the way for all of us and our successors, as we endeavour to establish firmly in a world, where many traditional assumptions are under serious threat, the values of fairness, decency, freedom and openness, which have been the object of her work.

«In other societies where people have a sense of decency and decorum, people with such irreconcilable differences would honourably resign their position.

I highly recommend this option because it demonstrates human decency, and it won't leave the woman sitting up all night wondering where she went wrong.

if Travis is a contradiction, then so is the Vietnam - era United States in which he walks and drives - a schizophrenic environment where violence is always bubbling beneath the surface of dignity, decency and democracy.

Danny DeVito and gang, week after week, push the envelope of decency until there's no where left to go.

Then again, Vinterberg seems to have rather clumsily loaded the story in favour of the smouldering Schoenaerts, who makes scant effort on the accent front but lets his glowering looks do the talking — a world away from Alan Bates's earlier reading, where the character's sheer decency has to work extra-hard to outweigh a seriously unappealing vintage beard.

1908: Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery «Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies» eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde's Hollow it was a quiet, well - conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the why and wherefores thereof.»

Though I have to say, I also work in arts admin and as a poet, and travel blogging isn't the only field where you get people who feel they're too «big» to reply... Surely it's just common decency and general politeness?

Canadians, the court said, would find the one - year minimum to be abhorrent and intolerable to their sense of decency in cases where a person's comparative blameworthiness is less serious.

In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.

It was contended on behalf of the appellant that the law relating to the offence of outraging public decency had developed in such a way that the offence was confined to those instances where the necessary lewd act had been witnessed by at least one person, and the public nature of the offence was only satisfied if, in addition, at least one other person either had or could have seen the act.

Even in the US, where s. 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives very broad immunity to intermediaries, that immunity is for content provided by others.

The courts only award punitive damages in rare circumstances where the defendant's conduct has been so malicious and high - handed that it offends the court's sense of decency.

The public element in the offence was satisfied if the act was done where people were present and the nature of what was being done was capable of being seen; the principle was that the public were to be protected from obscene or disgusting acts which were of a nature that outraged public decency and which were capable of being seen in public.

He submitted that the offence of outraging public decency, as developed by 19th century authorities, was confined to instances where a lewd act had been witnessed by a least one person.