Sentences with phrase «public decency as»

Answer: Only if your accompanying yelling and cursing «affect the public decency as well as the peace and quiet of the children playing in the neighborhood.»

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

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 must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

President Buhari, clearly with the most reasonable claim to decency in the public space, even after tenure as military head of state, is clearly last.

Their crusade against the public broadcaster has no basic standard of decency, and using its attempt at intellectual consistency as a way of painting it as a weak - willed terrorist sympathiser is apparently well within the rules of the game.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has paid tribute to Alistair Darling as a man of «values, decency and kindness» who «distinguished himself as an extraordinary public servant» after he confirmed he will stand down as an MP at the next election.

Give me Hoffman who as the decency to keep his composure in public settings.

As the former congressman tries to regain a semblance of public decency and political clout, the camera continues to roll as we watch an ambitious man's dreams collapse around him thanks to the contemporary issues of media overexposurAs the former congressman tries to regain a semblance of public decency and political clout, the camera continues to roll as we watch an ambitious man's dreams collapse around him thanks to the contemporary issues of media overexposuras we watch an ambitious man's dreams collapse around him thanks to the contemporary issues of media overexposure.

As part of our plea agreement, the defendant pled no contest to the misdemeanor offense of outraging public decency.

In a recent opinion in People v. Martinez, Criminal Court Judge Ruben Franco held that» [w] hile most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to wear ones pants so low as to expose the underwear... «people can dress as they please, wear anything, so long as they do not offend public order and decency.»»

These are typically framed as defences to human rights complaints (e.g. blanket defences for hiring one's own personal care attendant; BFOQ defences permitting discrimination on the basis of sex because of the nature of the employment; and public decency defences for exclusion in the provision of goods and services.

Turning to the related question, whether the act was such as to outrage public decency, Thomas LJ noted the decision of the House of Lords in Knuller (Publishing, Printing and Promotion) Ltd v DPP [1972] 2 All ER 898, [1972] 3 WLR 143.

«Whether on the evidence allowed before the court an offence of outraging public decency had been committed, as no one other than the appellant was shown to be aware of what he was doing when he was filming.»

The first of these elements consists of two parts: an act which is lewd, obscene or disgusting; and which is such as to outrage public decency.

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.

Those cases established that if the offence of outraging public decency was to be proved, it was necessary to prove two elements: first, that the act was of such a lewd character as to outrage public decency; that element constituted the nature of the act which had to be proved before the offence could be established.