decent society

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandsociety

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofdecentandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The freedoms traditionally associated with political participation-speech, press, association and assembly-fall well outside the pale of rights adecentsocietymust honor.
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They simply would not play by the rules ofdecentsociety.
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Ultimately, an indicator of adecentsocietyis how we care for those who cannot care for themselves in their twilight years.
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Obviously, overcrowded prisons and bad prison conditions should not be a feature of adecentsociety.
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It has fuelled social division and exclusion, not helped in the creation of adecentsociety.
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In some countries, those ruthless individuals are ready to undermine the very foundation ofdecentsociety.
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The terror and shame that are inflicted on some debtors should not be tolerated in anydecentsociety.
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Yet, in the great majority of cases, these people were not irrevocably lost todecentsociety.
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Each of those sums is an investment in the future and creating a fair anddecentsociety.
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There is a place for the entrepreneur, but there must also be a place for adecentsociety.
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Respect for pledges given in good faith and accepted in the same spirit is a fundamental principle of anydecentsociety.
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They want adecentsociety, but if they have injustice they will fight it.
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However, it is necessary, if we are to achieve thatdecentsociety, that there is equality in the law.
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We are, after all, a society that is affluent, and if we are to be adecentsociety, that is what we should do.
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It is a form of destruction of the national wealth that should not take place in anydecentsociety.
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Security for those who cannot is the other side of that coin and an essential element of adecentsociety.
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I also believe that that is not the only factor which makes adecentsociety.
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That is the mark of a fundamentallydecentsociety.
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There can be no doubt that good housing is a fundamental in adecentsociety.
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