Sentences with phrase «for basic human decency»

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Leading by example might not be sufficient to sustain the bank, but it's hard not to see TD's core values — like service and respect for its employees — as manifestations of the basic human decency of its CEO.

Thank you for your basic human compassion and decency.

Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).

«The US administration has shown a consistent disregard for the Geneva Conventions and basic principles of law, human rights and decency,» says Irene Khan, Amnesty International's secretary general.

I'd submit that if basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain it is inappropriate for you to be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain by identifying everything evil in the world as leftwing.

In any case, basic human decency suggests that one should not be too quick to exploit human tragedy for political gain, at least until the picture is really clear.

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.