Sentences with phrase «standard of decency»

Farbest - Tallman Foods Corporation recognizes its obligation to its customers, community and online visitors to adhere to the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all its operations.
A grossly disproportionate sentence is not just one which is excessive, but one which is «so excessive as to outrage standards of decency» and «abhorrent or intolerable» [para 42].
But other times poverty produces a bitterness and oppression, and the victim of poverty, unable to find a constructive outlet for his hostilities, seizes for himself the right to judge, and violates all the community standards of decency.
Saying that every tenant deserves to live in safety and security, James asserted that every apartment needs to meet basic standards of decency.
Unless both sides can agree to meet certain minimum standards of decency that transcend questions of «what side are you on,» things will only get worse.
... This whole process assumes there is — or perhaps creates — some global, universal standard of decency and appropriateness.»
I was saddened to see that SI is following the ever - increasing decline of today «Äôs standards of decency by publishing the «Äúpeeloton «Äù photo (Scorecard, July 26) of Tour de France racers urinating.
Any malicious sexual contact by prison guards against inmates may amount to a constitutional violation, a federal appeals court ruled, noting how standards of decency have changed in the past two decades.
He noted that King described a «beloved community» in which the wealth of the world is shared by all of the people of the world and in which poverty, hunger and homelessness are eliminated «because of an international standard of decency
In Lord Simon's opinion, such an interpretation was borne out by the purpose of the legal rule, ie «that reasonable people may venture out in public without the risk of outrage to certain minimum accepted standards of decency».
Media rights In his impassioned defence of the media's right to name and shame those it deems have off ended public standards of decency, Mr Dacre argues: «Since time immemorial public shaming has been a vital element in defending the parameters of what are considered acceptable standards of social behaviour, helping ensure that citizens — rich and poor — adhere to them for the good of the greater community.»
For him, the intentions of the Framers are almost as easily manipulated for partisan purposes, and thus almost as susceptible to abuse, as the living - Constitution theorists» evolving standards of decency.
The question is not simply whether the minimum sentence is excessive but whether, as Justice Antonio Lamer said in Smith at paras. 53 - 4, it is so excessive as to outrage standards of decency:
It is clear that community standards of decency have slipped in our country.
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.
But it is a certain kind of self - disclosure — call it the ironic confession — in which graphic «over-sharing» violates the standards of decency that once enabled us to speak seriously about the possibility of someone's being «horrible.»
«Obviously neither Commissioner Carrion nor Governor Paterson has any shame or standard of decency
«However, contrary to all standards of decency in a democratic setting and in spite of the service of Court process on the Kaduna State government, you have gone ahead to publish on your tweeter handle, a list of teachers who purportedly passed the competency test by scoring 75 per cent and above.
Puppy Training Solutions strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our customers», consumers» and online visitors» privacy on our website.
Schnauzers Rule strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations.
There's an interesting post at A Public Defender which wonders whether the Court should take its cues on «evolving standards of decency» from the legislature.
«Yes, I think that's an importantpart of the «evolving standards of decency» that the Supreme Court explicitly said,» Stubbs said.
If the «evolving standards of decency» inquiry of the Eighth Amendment focuses on actual practices, then there seems to be virtually no evidence of a changed standard since 1989.»
«The criterion which must be applied in order to determine whether a punishment is cruel and unusual within the meaning of s. 12 of the Charter is, to use the words of Laskin C.J. in Miller and Cockriell, supra, at p. 688, «whether the punishment prescribed is so excessive as to outrage standards of decency
The cuts potentially jeopardized the health and safety of innocent and vulnerable children in a manner that shocked the conscience and outraged standards of decency.
«While I consider a three year penalty to be excessive and disproportionate for Mr. Lewis, I am not prepared to find that it is so at a level that would be grossly disproportionate and / or would outrage standards of decency.
In making its judgment, the court must apply the evolving standards of decency and propriety in the 21st century.
However, the standards of decency and propriety have varied a lot over time.
The Positive Parenting Centre strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity.
Home Staging Montreal strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations.
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