Sentence examples for With a decent life from inspiring English sources

We talked to dozens of military officers who before the war had known little about governance or business but were now ably immersing themselves in projects to provide the average Iraqi with a decent life.

Wars, strikes, racial tensions and youth rebellion all roiled national life, but a basic deal among Americans still held, in belief if not always in fact: work hard, follow the rules, educate your children, and you will be rewarded, not just with a decent life and the prospect of a better one for your kids, but with recognition from society, a place at the table.

Some described this experience as being pervasive: "ongoing stress trying to provide our son with a decent life and when I can't stop crying" (mother aged 52, child aged 16).

When Churchill and Roosevelt were considering their declaration of the Atlantic Charter, it was Attlee, acting with a celerity and a clarity of purpose that belied his reputation for caution, who insisted on including "freedom from want" as one of its aims, making economic rights and, with them, a decent life for all, one of the official aims of the war.

Despite the stressful conditions of transit work, people still flock to the job because "it remains one of the few jobs in the city where an ordinary person with an ordinary education can build a decent life with decent pay," Snyder said.

There's almost no water, extreme weather and with little chance of a decent life".

Some of these individual islands might be quite unpleasant by liberal standards; what makes the archipelago liberal overall is that each community guarantees its dissenting members the right to exit (which might have a high price, if former members have nowhere to go with any prospect for a decent life).

"Only a young Indian who is not supported by a family purse will appreciate the simple fact that he or she does not compete with other young people for a shot at a decent life, but with whole families".

The baby belongs to Sarah (the fine Stephanie Umoh), a washerwoman, who thought it had no chance at a decent life with her.

If we believe everyone has the right to live a decent life, with dignified work, something more fundamental needs to change.

When the rainy seasons were good they lived a decent life, with plenty to eat and to keep in storage until the next harvest.