词汇 | example_english_decency |
释义 | Examples of decencyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Both of them made a rather negative contribution to the decencies of public life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our supporters look to us to protect those decencies, not to destroy them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Where does responsibility lie for this proposed outrage on the elementary decencies of our political and public life? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To be poor is to be excluded not only from the graces but also from the very decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us have the decencies of life for these people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, we were supposed to be quite indifferent to the decencies and amenities of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the enemy, too, of the political decencies that we cherish in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the normal decencies, restraints and courtesies of society are undermined, then in the end everyone loses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must teach the decencies of life and preserve the family unit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We consider that the cost of burial should be reduced while, of course, preserving the decencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall find it harder to hang on to those decencies if we clutter them up in a kind of package deal with manifest nonsense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the man who is often living in a small room with his family and unable to preserve the decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot restore diplomatic relations with a country which ignores all the courtesies and the decencies of international life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Directly they show that they are prepared to observe the ordinary courtesies and decencies of international intercourse, we shall be prepared to meet them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The opinion must be expressed in a manner which preserves the ordinary decencies of controversy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decencies of public life and honesty in politics demands that this matter should not be left where it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the remarkable facts is that the decencies of war, if such there be, do not apply in civil war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no decencies of life, and they are breeding places for diseases of body and mind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If some families are failing to teach the common decencies, why does that happen? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The local authority is bound to provide water, internal sanitation and the decencies of civilised life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After a death in a constituency, the timetable should take account of the necessary human decencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must try to marry the interests of the inhabitants in the supply of the ordinary common decencies of life with amenity wherever possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will explain later why the word "decencies" has been chosen with the greatest care. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wish to address myself to the decencies of public life, which seem to have been abrogated in this case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The normal decencies and quality of life are related to our education service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are arguing about technicalities instead of establishing the day-to-day decencies that exist in every other industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has everyone at his mercy and to that extent he must observe the decencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we ought to maintain the decencies over public grief if we can. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are blatant, open perversions of what people consider to be ordinary decencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have menfolk robbed of all the decencies of home life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You are handing these people to the wolves to be destroyed for lack of nourishment and the common decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reality is that many solicitors prefer aggressive prosecuting counsel who will take the decencies to their uttermost limits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has to provide the decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am also sensitive to the argument that perhaps a minimum of humbug is needed if the decencies of public life are to be preserved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The people of the country call out for the decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would grant that absolutely where you have guardians who are prepared to listen and accept at any rate the ordinary decencies of public life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the fight for justice, independence and the common decencies for the aged, the case is ours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We were inhibited from using this knowledge by the decencies of confidence placed in members of local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to balance the profit and loss in this kind of operation and, more, important, preserve some of the decencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They want homes, food, light, markets, and they want to enjoy the decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Equally, however, we must respect their sensitivities and their broad underlying decencies wherever we possibly can. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we are objecting to is the infringement of the susceptibilities and decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Observe the decencies, and do not inflict any damage which might be avoided on this property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The decencies of life could be provided for them in that settlement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot afford to give you the decencies and comforts you are entitled to. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we are speaking of is the casting to the winds of all the restraints and the decencies of humanity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall try to preserve the decencies of life for our people as long as we can. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The common decencies ought not to be denied to decent folk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Compulsory amalgamation strikes me as an extraordinary breach of the ordinary decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of homes entirely without the ordinary decencies of life, without a sheet or a blanket, and without the ordinary civilised decencies that we might expect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since at least the 1950s, we have been living off capital put in place by previous generations, which emphasised what common decencies were and how they were learned in families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While we have a situation of that sort, how can we have family decencies and families growing up with the chances that every citizen ought to have? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not suggesting that at present our national newspapers which publish these children's editions are in any way violating what we regard as the ordinary decencies of publication. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The basic human decencies such as maternal affection, care for sick parents or personal convictions are treated as if they are sins against the corporate greed of the company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a matter of fact, the wages of the labourer are never sufficient to enable him to purchase the ordinary necessaries, decencies, and comforts of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They observe the ordinary decencies when a family is bereaved and the relatives have to try to tidy up the business and pull together the threads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he consider introducing a new system of guarantees for visitors by family and friends which will safeguard against improper entry, while maintaining the decencies of family life? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If there is one need that these people have in the middle of winter more than any other, it is heat, hot water and decencies for children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sadly the old decencies are vanishing which is why we need an amendment such as this, even though it covers only one aspect of invasion of privacy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is more it is an outrage and it is robbery to charge increased rents for replacements which are complying only with the ordinary elementary decencies of housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole history of the working-class movement is built up on that fact, that men had to fight for every concession, even for the ordinary decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They, through their representatives all over the world, do their best to ensure that the basic rights and decencies of the seamen are respected, and they are not ineffectual. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Moreover, the more we spend on the relief of poverty, the less we have available to spend on other decencies and necessities—better health care and better education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not only engaged in bad work but is not even having regard to the decencies and amenities of public life in his manner of carrying out that policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They also want us to ask what the reasons are for the breakdown of common decencies in our society, and we should think about those in the long term. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one need come within its scope, except by his own neglect of his family and his failure to comply with the elementary decencies of life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can draw consolation from the fact that a large proportion of employers do their best to modernise their factories and provide some decencies for their workpeople. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They slept in log huts that could not protect them from the dampness and cold, nor permit the existence of the common decencies of life. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He did nt mourn and, despite observing the decencies, ate meat and drank wine. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also focuses an ordinary human point of view on the world around him, valuing integrity and decency. Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability. Here, too, one reads a story of a life torn between innate decency and the demands of modern stardom. The coroner claimed the right to exclude outsiders in the interests of criminal justice, family privacy or public decency. They both represent the same kind of essential decency. The lawyers are two-dimensional mouthpieces, albeit on the side of decency and truth. Apart from an elegant cut, decency was the most essential quality for riding attire. Men need counsel and men need help, often special help; and all this ought to be rendered for decency's sake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I ask you in all decency, why cannot you concede this small thing? Such a baseline might be that of a life of minimal human decency and fulfillment. Clothing was assessed in terms of ' legality ', ' decency ', and practicality, so ' an alternative ' item was sometimes allowed. The closest equivalent is probably 'common decency'. In both these films, time spent in a rural environment seems to have reminded or rekindled long dead feelings of decency and responsibility on the part of their villainous protagonists. Customary law and church bureaucracy in readers' conservative thought fostered the will to virtue among the young by creating fixed standards of decency, tests against which to measure conduct. Associated with it are the values of truth and decency which he aims to pry loose from the doctrine and realign with his nativist view (ibid., xi). I accepted, although for decency's sake we made a further 12 moves or so, and the question of first place was put off until the last round. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Let us have the decency, as we do tonight, not to blame the weather. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Goods once considered luxuries became" decencies": essential demarcations between a tolerable standard of living and deprivation. If not necessities, soap and candles were at least" decencies". The law courts at least preserve the decencies of debate. Who were these boys and girls half-fed, half-clothed, less than half-taught, complete strangers to the most elementary social discipline and the ordinary decencies of a civilised home? He also focuses an ordinary human point of view on the world around him, valuing integrity and decency above everything else. They constructed a simplistic, but powerful, programme calling for the restoration of basic issues of security and decency. I shall discuss three battlegrounds: authenticity, decency and folklorization. How else to figure the difference between morally empty emotional showmanship and true moral decency? He would, for a start, immediately recognize an attempt to grasp the nature of civic decency under peculiarly modern duress. Who cares for decency in a world where the strong devours the weak? The academic humanities seem both well-intentioned and harmless, or, more positively, a force for decency and liberation. Therefore, moral decency requires that we not rank our interest in revealing the worth of papers ahead of our interest in helping others. At least it is worth something within the kinds of limits that the decency conditions set. Treat hired labor with respect and human decency, as the valuable resource that it is (this also reduces worker turnover). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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