Sentences with phrase «for decency»

I did not hear it, but an Ottawa lawyer, well known for his decency and thoughtfulness, did hear it and reported to me that not one caller complained about the cost of solicitor services.

I extend my heartfelt condolences to Annick and his family, and can only offer the consolation that Andy was a powerful voice for decency, wisdom and kindness in this messed - up world.

Wir sind kreativ («we are creative») presents itself as an early 20th century avant garde manifesto, advocating an «Avant Garde for Decency.»

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.»

[NOTE: GoodEReader will not be linking to that last story for decency reasons... you'll have to Google it yourself.]

It's Cruise's deftest performance yet as a slickster grasping for the decency in himself.

One thing is clear: the personal qualities of the new Speaker, especially his or her attitude to expenses (the new proxy for decency and integrity) will override all party political considerations.

«The primary issue with Orthodox Jews is that gay marriage poses an existential threat to religious liberty,» said Rabbi Noson Leiter, executive director of Torah Jews for Decency.

Also listed is Rabbi Nathaniel Leiter, the executive director of Torah Jews for Decency.

A success for decency.

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.

Politics is about witticism and not hooliganism; it calls for decency, not their kind of impudence and bullying.

Yet in many ways this only intensifies the feeling, for decency is often located in appearances, not in underlying structures.

«Fairness, maybe that's the word I'm looking for,» says Hacksaw, soldiering on in his lonely campaign for decency in sports radio.

For decency.

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).

With all the real issues that this Nation is facing, leave it to some complete idiot to start up this topic to place another target on anyone or anything that stands for decency in our Nation.

His life was a testemony for decency, love, compassion, justice and equal rights.

Not only for decency but for the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The authority needs to be channeled through the church for decency and order within the community.

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.

We are glad to have you, and I thank you for your decency and your honesty.

I look at people, and I see no god - just a potential vector for civilization's advance or retreat, for decency or callousness, but above all for learning and change.

Sadly — I remember a time when it was conservative - minded people who stood up for decency, civility, and rationality.

But please keep it to yourself, and for decencies sake, please do not try to shove it down my childs throat.

Not exact matches

The appeals court has ruled previously that the 1996 Communications Decency Act lets websites provide «neutral tools» to post material online and that they can not be held liable for libelous or potentially libelous material posted by third parties.

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.

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.

The Communications Decency Act, Section 230, protects Facebook from being held responsible for such mishaps as the spread of hoax news stories — like the one that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired from Fox — as well as defamatory comments posted by users.

Several of Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists and technologists, including Reid Hoffman, a founder of LinkedIn, condemned Mr. Caldbeck's behavior last week and called for investors to sign a «decency pledge.»

So arbitration is never intended for allegations about human decency; it's just been filtered into being used in that way.

Another option would be to revisit Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 law that provides immunity from liability to online platforms for content generated by its users.

The U.S. resolved many of the legal uncertainties surrounding the internet in the 1990s with the Communications Decency Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, laying the foundation for U.S. companies to dominate the commercial internet.

Startups rely on the intermediary liability protections found in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to innovate and create new ways for people to communicate.

The protections for online publishers come from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which states: «No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.»

Thiel, in other words, sees his lawsuit as a public - spirited attempt to enforce norms of decency and respect for personal privacy.

Also, the 4A's is to collaborate on a code of decency with the Media Ratings Council, that will live within MRC's brand safety guidelines as a resource for media agencies to identify and mitigate fake news.

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In their letter, the signatories argue for the inclusion in NAFTA of broad internet intermediary safe harbors along the lines of Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act (CDA), 1996.

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).

It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.

I'm astounded at their lack of courage in standing up for respect and common decency.

Honestly, if anyone in the picture is a wh / ore, it would be Limbaugh, because he has pimped out his human decency for fame and a bigger paycheck.

MAY GOD BLESS THEM for their support of decency and morality in a corrupt world.

The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

Thank you for your basic human compassion and decency.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

Karl Marx, and others with a heart, felt the need for a revolutionary humanization of the system as inevitable and morally mandatory for the dignity and decency of the human person.

Do you have any sense of decency, and respect for people who are not you?