Sentences with phrase «decency who»
Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.
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And in the absence of that basic decency, it's up to women ourselves, and the men who agree that we're people, to say that Trump's misogyny has gone on for too long and has finally gone too far.
To the three of them, a wife — even one who had recently delivered a new baby — was not deserving of any special consideration or protection, or even of decency in its broadest possible definition.
The verse literally says, «I also want the women to dress modestly [respectably, decorous], with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, appropriate for women who profess to worship God» (1 Timothy 2:9).
I wonder if I am the only reader to find Williamson's stance as offensive as Ms. Nouvelle's: here's an employee from the oh - so - liberal world of public radio who fled to the security of provincial life and, through a rather sophistical analysis, passes off as common decency, common bigotry.
It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.
Most authors I read who deny the existence of God / aGod have at least the decency to admit there is no way to know a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y.
Sadly — I remember a time when it was conservative - minded people who stood up for decency, civility, and rationality.
Do you have any sense of decency, and respect for people who are not you?
In FDR, Ted Morgan observes that Roosevelt made his mistake, with Stalin at Yalta by assuming «that the their fellow is a good guy who will respond with decency if he is treated right» Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 756) In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17).
I applaud people who have enough decency to save children from religious indoctrination.
«I knew they did bad things; yet I saw them suffering — a person who chooses a way of life and did some bad things who still has decency about them.»
But it was Burke himself who tried to persuade the gentlemen of his day and party that they must defend themselves and political decency in general against theoretical currents that undermined the integrity of «sound practice.»
As a Catholic who strongly supports Pope Francis and views Rush Limbaugh beyond the limits of decency, I find any expressions of hate and desire for bodily harm or death even more repulsive than Rush's most vile comments.
i would urge all of those who care about the decency of human life to have there thoughts and prayers on this man.
9 I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
You so - called «believers» are weak minded fools who more often than not use your gods to explain what you can not otherwise grasp or to justify your actions even when they fly in the face of human decency.
Anyone who must study the laws, so they can take their actions beyond decency and yell, «you can't stop me, it's my right to do this,» doesn't deserve the protection of those rights.
In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin and Michael Oakeshott (incidentally, a mentor of Sullivan's who sometimes appears to be incidental to him), conservatives have quite enough to do in coping with the assaults upon decency, justice, and common sense perpetrated by those who call themselves liberals.
Decency is expected from all men and women who want to be respected.
Carol — sad to say, the majority who write here want Beck and all Conservatives dead — it is the new communism — the new ignorance who would rather side with killers like Fidel Castro and gangs than decency.
And then we watched the birth of a somber but tranquil time presided over by President Gerald Ford, who will probably be remembered primarily for his decency.
and especially for Mrs. Bachmann — «I also want a woman to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.»
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.
To somehow imply that a local business owner who works hard and makes a good income is as much to blame as the crooked bank CEOs and traders who were a primary cause of the 2008 meltdown is to ignore common sense and common decency.
«When you add several hundred thousand extra people into a market place, some who are «out of town,» without common decency boundaries and behaving outside of their norms, then the demand for illicit sex will increase,» says Brian Venables, Divisional Secretary for Public Relations and Development of the Salvation Army's British Colombia Division.
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.
The help they receive will come from the decency and care from other people all over the world who are now rushing to help them.
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.
The Board of AFC have been inept and mistaken in their loyalty towards AW who in turn lacks the decency to put the Club first before his personal interests..
I then wrote to the football ombudsman, who, to his credit, had the decency to reply to my email with» I see nothing sinister on this occasion» even though, I pointed out, that 90 % of referees live between 10 and 20 minutes from Mike Riley.
The reason many decent people shun football and look down on those who support and play it, is precisely because there is so much bad behaviour, defiance of refs, deliberate breaking and bending of the rules and sheer hypocrisy by football people who pay only lip service to this change but actually have not the guts, honesty or decency to change it for the better.
At leaset AVB had the decency to give a fair review of the game — and most spurs fans admit we were lucky, funny there was absolutely no mention of the fact that spurs long ball was in part decided by the way the red hatchet men fouled any spurs player with the ball who had the termerity to cross the half way line — was it skrtel on Dempsy which was the closest thing to an assault in that game when he had clearly outpaced the scouse man and was brought down with absolutely no chance of getting the ball.
Yes, Cesc was a former player, and former captain — and the best young player I have watched — but he turned into a petulant little twat who refused to play for us and decided to go to the Spanish Grand Prix rather than have the decency to turn up to the last game of the season and thank the fans for their support.
The Chelsea players did not even have the decency to mention Rafa Benitez, who had just led them to a Europa League trophy and 3rd in the league, as they spoke to the fans on the final day.
This country has seen enough despair brought on by people who lack a basic sense of decency and responsibility to others.
In fact, almost all the commenters here making those types of statements are cruel assholes who should just have the decency to find good homes for their pets instead of neglecting them and «waiting for them to die.»
It's almost as if having a baby bump is an open invitation for commentary and questions from people who may otherwise abide by the common roles of social decency.
This type of plan will work for separated parents who can treat one another with decency and sensitivity, who acknowledge the importance of both parents to the children, and who work hard to foster all the relationships that are important for their children.
Go ahead and look and you will find one person after another making sweeping generalizations and assumptions, about who I am and what I believe, and then not even having the decency to apologize when they are shown to be wrong.
When we surround ourselves with a community of people who have the decency to appreciate what we have to say, or our decision to not say anything at all, it makes life a little bit easier.
Guess what a good friend by name Selorm Kpade had to say about that: «An «insult» is when you preside over a failure and you have no decency to apologize for it but sadly you turn to «insult» the very people who have put their hard earned money in you trust....
«Our goals have always been simple ones: making life more manageable for those of our neighbors who need a hand and bringing a measure of transparency and decency to state government.»
Rabbi Noson Leiter, Executive Director of the Orthodox Jewish advocacy group, Torah Jews for Decency, and an organizer of the event identified those candidates who advance the LGBT agenda.
«You don't have the decency and the manners and just the common decency and goodness to endorse a man who has given you the opportunity to speak on national television in primetime, then that shows he's a fraud, he's a liar, he's the guy we've come to hate in Washington,» said Rep. Peter King of Long Island.
He is the only political leader who can stop a retreat from the consensus of decency that has traditionally characterised Britain's role in the world.
The President said he was seriously pained by this persistent violence and the total disregard for the sanctity of life by those he called «'' hideously evil people who have no iota of respect for humanity, decency and civilization.»
The only man who had the decency to resign from cabinet over the war when it actually made a difference (even Clare Short was slow off the mark).
«Nick Clegg is a man of both decency and integrity who helped transform the face of British politics.