Britons were fretting about the decline in civility two decades ago, when muggers and heroin addicts roamed the streets.
It's part of an overall breakdown in civility in our society and how dismissive we have become of anyone who raises concern.
But, I also believe in civility and showing respect to others.
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Earlier this month the paper published an op-ed by Kristin Wartman, "a journalist who writes about food, health, politics and culture, " who thinks that "problems ranging from obesity to deteriorating health to a decline in civility and morals" can be solved through the magic of home cooking.
The Allegheny poll found nearly 50% of Americans believe there has been a decline in the civility of politics since Obama became president.
The Internet, for all the power it has given the average person to be informed and connect with others, has also fueled a rapid decline in the civility of debate, secured by the lack of accountability created by online anonymity.
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The two candidates then engaged in an informal chat that restored a sense of civility in a nation marked by upheaval.
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And this erosion of civility in the public square sows division and distrust among our citizens.
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With some justice, Mr Turabi can claim credit for having maintained this veil of civility in a traumatised society.
You've seen that there have been a number of commentaries written about the lack of civility in this debate that many people are seeing.
The South Dakota Democrat said he was humbled by his new position, and mindful that his duty was maintain an air of productivity and civility in the closely divided chamber.
And I think he'd like to see that process revised and changed so that we can have a little bit more civility in all this and hopefully get somebody who's eminently qualified.
For all the crying by global warming alarmists about the lack of civility in the global warming debate, almost all of the over-the-top vitriol among spokespersons for each point of view emanates from the alarmist crowd.
And he asked, is there hope for us returning to civility in our discourse, to a healthy legislative process, so as I strap on the boots again tomorrow, I know that you guys got it under control?
But more moderate Democrats are nervous about such crude confrontationalism, recalling what happened to Newt Gingrich when he tried to go head-to-head with the president and pointing to opinion polls which show that the majority of people want a return to civility in Washington.
While the main findings from the Allegheny study focus on the interest among the public in a return to political civility, opinions on the current state of politics in Washington have interesting implications for the November elections.
The event called forth a flood of tributes remarkable even in the Senate, which still affects pride in its traditions of civility.
Barbara Mikulski, D-Maryland, took pride in the "zone of civility" created by the increasing number of women senators.
Given how the Constitution has been turned upside down such that local disputes have taken on a national flavor, is it any wonder that civility has disappeared in both Congress and the electorate?
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It was Churchill first, and then Roosevelt, who reawakened the West to its core values: freedom, civility, common decency in the face of evil, destructive forces of hate.
Mr. BEUTTLER: And at one point, one of the members grabbed the other man's wig and it came right off, and that sort of stopped everything because everybody burst out in laughter and a sort of civility sort of returned to the House floor.
Such benefits of civility were scarcely visible in the rowdy Harvard students and others who forced cancelation of a university dinner for alumni at their university's recent 350th birthday celebration because they objected to the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
There are long-term trends which threaten to undermine good manners, the report says: busy lives in dense and transitory communities make civility harder and new technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have developed too fast for codes of acceptable behaviour to develop.
Civility is somehow being lost in portions of America.
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But, mea culpa, I slipped badly several months ago when I acted impulsively without the proper civility, balance and thoughtfulness in comments I made about the Goldman Sachs CEO, who at times in the past has enabled me to do some revealing and original reporting about Goldman which underscored that Lloyd Blankfein was undoubtedly the most brilliant and successful risk manager in finance.
Zogby International recently completed an extensive telephone survey for Allegheny College on civility and the need for compromise in politics.
So with Pelosi as House Speaker promising new civility, and with new women in Congress, is this the year of the woman?
Civility and decorum will be strained tomorrow evening in Philadelphia when a top-flight team of English barristers jet in to argue that the Declaration of Independence was illegal.
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If the American people want civility, they can elect a Congress that believes in it.
He chooses to, in the pursuit of a more civil discourse in our public space, he chooses to try to practice that civility himself.
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