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The aim here is not to censor but create a lobby of senior respected citizens who can prevail upon those in control to act when the boundary of decency is crossed
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"No, your holiness, she is as attractive as decency allows at all times," he said, 'and at other times more attractive than decency allows,' he thought
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No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated
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Under necessaries, therefore, I comprehend, not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people
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Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butcher's meat, as it in most places requires that he should wear a linen shirt or a pair of leather shoes
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Noble women did not go around kissing men of the lower classes however, they may dance with a merchant or even a lower-class civilian, though decency forbid them to cross any more lines than this
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But that was only if you passed our Sergeant’s decency test for he had very definitive ideas regarding what “decent clothes” meant
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Why these suicidal people did not have the decency to warn the SAP of their HIV status is for them to explain
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They had not even had the decency to wear the life jackets he had appropriated from the Navy specifically for them
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that never happened by the way—we always tried, or I did as a matter of common decency, to have someone of equal rank available during an arrest
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Its elasticity is grounded on the assumption that our society is a living organism subject to the vicissitudes of enlightened opinions, changing social and moral values and evolving standards of decency
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Neither would a movement as such, for a variety of reasons; secure a moral consensus among the American People who would properly consider such designs as morally repugnant and offensive to a society‘s standard of decency
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Therefore, can any of us ascertain, without qualification, that the manner an individual behaves is either moral or immoral without properly assessing that individual‘s underlying assumptions or conditions without compromising our (own) judgment? Insight into ―things‖, as indicated above, requires that an individual be cognizant of the internal factors that correctly define the quality of his or her actions; that such qualities ―unseen‖ are nevertheless as real as Character, Decency or Virtuosity, or their opposites, that become readily apparent to an inquiring mind
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Would have been cruel to deprive us our tradition which is the same under all race groups! Attacking us whilst barbecuing, was seen as very mean-spirited and against the rules of war and common decency
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Clinton‘s betrayal of public confidence, too enumerable to mention, is a troubling reminder of the Republic‘s moral regression and indifference to standards of decency that its citizens need only look in the mirror to understand why this man has never been brought to task!
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evolutionary standards of (moral) decency! At some indeterminate juncture, having (nearly) exhausted its loftiest social, cultural and intellectual ideals, a society begins striking diminishing or marginal returns, also understood as the ―law of relative increasing costs
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Haven't you got the decency to take them out and bury them? What's wrong with you all?"
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Whether the (Holy) Scriptures should remain subject to generational contentions or modern interpretations, much in the manner that Constitutional Law is persuaded by the (legal) authority of evolving standards of decency, such arguments that otherwise provide recourse to alternative viewpoints, must be equally troubling as arbitrary viewpoints relating to Papal Infallibility or the Divine Rights of Kings!
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Always! It has nothing to do with the truth or common decency or even perspective for perspective can be written before it happens
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More recently President Bush (43) became very unpopular amongst his own staff for refusing to sign a certain pardon for one of his own staff which shows a lot more decency in the man than what is usually ascribed to him by the media
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There is no longer any doubt in my mind that treason, as it was once (properly) understood, is on the verge of extinction; elasticized out of the American Constitution by the penumbral dynamics governing free speech in whatever form that may otherwise antagonize the well-bred standards of decency and good taste; depending, of course, on the topic and the person doing the talking!
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Our society‘s casual disregard for standards of decency has gradually given way to dysfunctional attitudes that have (seemingly) assumed a life of their own
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Though she was not a regular church-goer, Teri had been brought up to honor the faith of her nation's Fathers and had respect for the stability and decency of religion as she understood it
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Amonas had the decency to interlope and cut Hilderich in mid-sentence, offering his timely excuse:
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The armies of Shan had cast away all form of decency or honor and had turned into a rabble of heretics
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They rushed to the inside of the temple, trying to carry their dead sister with a modicum of decency
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He assumed that he was being taken to be transported back to Poland, and was about to ask why they did not have at least the decency to provide breakfast before sending him off, when he realized that he was being conducted to the building where he had met with Fullerton the day before
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The author described the Huaxteca as “stubborn warriors with rather obscene dedication to the male member to the exclusion of even the pretense of common decency
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“The Khan of Anahuac sincerely hoped I would have the decency to share their fate
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The only questions are how soon will it be dead, and what progeny, if any, will it leave behind? The excuse the Court offers to keep the Constitution “living” is to claim it is applying such tests as “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society
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There can be nothing more destructive of decency and civil order than the idea that a worm on a fishing line has the same natural right to claim integrity or even to exist
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” Tyranny likes to drape its naked power in a cloak of decency
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” Hart’s core values of family, faith, and decency are a sort of earthly trinity that expresses what “we can’t not know
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I just wish he’d had the decency to cut his losses with me first
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He didn’t even have the decency to
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Marx preferred workers who had the decency to remain abstract
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out of their lines of decency, like when I told them I'm not a
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“Common decency! There’s more to the morality of law than practical reduction of risk!”
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Because with the arrival of the murderer in the land, all decency and concept of working together had been lost, from the very beginning
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Still, hearing that Amanda hadn’t even had the decency to show up to at least thank
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Poachers had raided our pots but at least had the decency and humor to leave us something
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At least Hephaestus had the decency to be honest about it-he’d put up cameras and advertised me as entertainment
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decency, he owed her some sort of explanation
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he had the decency to call her
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She was followed by three nuns who hissed that I was an affront to decency; pointing at my bare toes
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And although within my head, both Ño Josefina’s and Severa’s cries echoed with all their pristine ethical foundations of decency, composure and integrity; I, always averse towards everything that meant obedience, duty or imposition, disobeying the mandates of awareness, self-consciousness, and common sense, and plunged my lips again as a sailor in search of fresh water
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for their arrogant aggression and contempt for decency that has destroyed trust and much that was so wonderful in those people; encouraging a militant form of Islam with such miserable consequences for them as well as us
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At least their commanding officer has the decency to make them stop
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As to her decency, that was a matter of perspective
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This insult is not to be borne! When a lady refuses a man, he should have the decency and self-respect to back off!
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In Roger’s book he should by now have had the decency of suffering a massive a coronary, or at least a stroke
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As his urge to gauge her mind goaded him to read them, his sense of decency to preserve her privacy tied his hands
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As his sense of decency restrained him from daydreaming about her, he tried to desist from thinking about her altogether
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But, as his sense of decency resisted his instinct from venturing, he was gripped with expectation
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He was no more monogamous in his nature than the average soldier of fortune, but there was an innate decency about him that was Natala's best protection
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Washing and getting dressed under the eye of a camera is one thing, but I fucking hope that the one who’s spying on me has the decency to grant me my privacy during a toilet visit
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He had the decency of paying the bill before he rose to his feet and followed us outside, stared after by everyone in the coffee shop, that’s what ghost demons were
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I know you almost said the „N word" but you had the decency to slam on the brakes
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‘’Does that mean that the American lieutenant general that was in command of NTM-A had the decency to pass his command to his NATO deputy commander, after ordering such a gutting up of the mission, sir, or are the Americans pretending to stay in charge of NTM-A?’’ Asked Nancy in a bitter tone
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“You could at least have the decency to wait until I've finished
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That harlot didn't even have the decency to walk us into
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The Boggs made a difference in the city and Carol and Ping Ferry said, Every move that either Grace or Jim has made over their lives has been toward decency of the human race
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Despite knowing that Nancy was a psyonic, Stan still could not get himself to hate or despise her: she had shown too much decency and care as a person for that
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That order was so shocking, so cruel that he came to see me to ask for my counsel, as he could not in all decency obey it
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If things didn’t improve, she was going eventually to have to put her foot down and bring some order and decency to the place
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Decency and morality may be fine – the public loves that too – but the media wants to keep people tuned in
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Even with his fondness for Faye, he felt slightly insulted by her not having the decency to cancel her arrangements or sending word of her inexplicable delay so that he and Lady Jane should not be left in the dark
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He knew it was not his wife, since she would never have the decency to call but would prefer to merely barge into the room in hopes of catching him in an indiscretion to confirm her accusations; besides, she was probably in the bedroom recuperating from her slight concussion sustained during the blackout
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Though he would very much like to trap her in her inconsistency, Feltus believed that Lord Ashburn, who himself did not have a corroborated alibi for the time of the murder, was completely unaware of his wife’s late-night escapades and would, as a Southern gentleman, maintain the decency of not embarrassing the lady in front of her husband
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Jiro didn’t waste time and left as quickly as decency permitted, the envelope still in one hand
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There had been no bitterness towards him, as Feltus had at first expected, but there was oddly enough a sense of gratitude at having had the decency to personally bring the body to them without allowing it to be desecrated by the “butcher” as they called the coroner
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decency, and playful sauciness
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Our procession finally arrived at the square, picking up my conch shell, I walked up the steps of the central platform and faced the temple steps, the murmur of the crowd slowly subsided, Yaotl the high priest hadn’t appeared so I stood as tall and immobile as I could, with an air of patience that I did not feel, after a longer wait than decency warranted, Yaotl would have seen our approach many miles away from the vantage of the pyramid temple’s lofty height, the crowd started to murmur and a few voices where loud and beginning to show signs of impatience, I stood quite still trying to assume the same air of nobility and nonchalance that Coatl displayed when faced with a situation, suddenly the villagers fell silent and from a doorway on the second level, the high priest, Yaotl, appeared dressed in his full regalia including the mirror breastplate and broad black stripe across his face, it was said that he could see into the soul of anyone foolish enough to look into the mirror on his chest
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Everyone’s conduct was flirtatious and never crossed the bounds of decency while occupying the common area to which this was usually referred
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“Yeah, maybe so,” Wickland conceded, hating to admit that perhaps he had been wrong about Moe and his decency
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Those inmates were so broken down by beatings, exhaustion, fear and grief that they lost what decency and conviction they had
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been executed en masse in an effort to silence truth and decency
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more simple and yet it was the excuse that drove the herd of medicine stampeding right over the cliff of decency
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But did they show any decency whatsoever? No, they just carried her away, cleaned up the vomit, and locked the next victim in the chair
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She had called him three times and every time he said he would be right over but he never came and she hoped he would at least have the decency to feel bad when he found her, dead on the sidewalk from a blood clot on the brain, and with a dandelion in her hand, pulled all the way to the root like she always did because those dandelions, once they got aholt of your yard, sure didn’t let go, and it was a good thing that she would pull that dandelion even if it did kill her, because her son, if he came at all, would just have sprayed some weed killer on the thing, and turned it all brown and ugly, but it would be back full growed in a couple weeks, see if it wasn’t, and what’s more spreading seeds like wildfire
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Isn't this what you wanted? You were so upset that after 5 years he did not have the decency to call
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Figuring they must at least have had the decency to provide a bridge, or a ferry or a mechanical penguin, we put the map away and rolled on until deja vu struck and before us sat the most highly decorated weebil in history
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He just prayed that the hags had had the decency to recruit a few of the deceased sex-slaves he had met earlier
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That was when Rod stopped listening; if they were going to use dirty words, then they could at least have the decency to use four letter ones so he could understand what they were going on about
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Maybe he could bribe them into joining his mating programme (and the occasional sex session with Elsie on CCTV) if he procured enough tasty victims to keep them happy? He would need a lot more biscuits, though, especially after the number of custard creams Read had munched his way through before having the decency to pass out
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Trid had the decency to look uncomfortable
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aspire to the decency of modern sanitation, whilst the elitist minority
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“Coming back to the ill-fated girl, the cousin who rescued me from the embarrassment of my life I told you about, abhorred the eligible bachelor in equal measure for his conceited ways, was not prepared to voice her apprehension lest her dissent should be construed as an envy for the girl’s glorious fortune-in-the-making; well I too kept mum for I knew that I wouldn’t have been deemed as a viable alternative by the mother of the bride and so, sadly for others’ decency of silence and her mother’s blinkers of falsity, the daughter had to suffer him as her man to her lifelong dismay
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on the other hand, decency and unyielding old-fashioned morality
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Though the sentimental turnaround at the hustings put the Congress back into the reckoning, her decency as a widow kept her away from the kursi that was hers for taking, but only till decency demanded
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Call me old-fashioned but I remember the days when common decency was
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At least the guy had the common decency to refer to him as Mister
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In her letters she would flirt just a little, walking the line of decency
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The intensity of the war for decency, is based, these days at least, primarily on the fears of the
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It represents an irony that defies all logics and sense of decency that a man in his right senses could harbour such heinous intentions in the dept of his soul against his wife and unborn children, to the extent of exterminating them spiritually for worldly possession
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Then the hyacinths or the roses are presented:--'I have brought thee a small thing,' says the friend, presenting; and my step-mother, who has been aware of their presence the whole time, but, with careful decency, has avoided looking at them, starts, protests, and launches forth on to heaving billows of enthusiasm
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But no girl with a spark of decency would cling on to a reluctant lover
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This little plump thing, bursting with young ripeness through her jumper, was real substantial flesh and blood, intensely alive, almost audibly crackling with vigour; and Fanny, looking at her, felt as if her own bones were hardly covered enough for decency, and that she was nothing but a pale ghost wandered from the rapidly cooling past, strayed into a richly warm generation to which she in no way belonged
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Who would have thought, she asked herself, that he could doubt her decency to the point of being in what he called a blue funk? He had positively perspired with fear lest she should fail him
