Sentence examples for a decent interval of from inspiring English sources

"Pyongyang will calculate that after a decent interval of three or four months, its adversaries will return to negotiations, possibly with bigger blandishments in tow".

Nasr concludes on Afghanistan: "We are just washing our hands of it, hoping there will be a decent interval of calm — a reasonable distance between our departure and the catastrophe to follow".

After a decent interval of three months, President Barack Obama reiterated this point at a press conference, and then expanded in an interview a few weeks later, adding that the US should not "provide a victory to these terrorist networks by over-inflating their importance and suggesting in some fashion that they are an existential threat to the United States or the world order".

"A decent interval of time should be allowed to lapse so that neither party will feel that there is a close connection between the two acts," the 2004 ruling by the ethics committee said, as quoted in the cases filed against the three House members.

(My best guess is that he will not, at least until a "decent interval of time" has passed).

"Richly left and richly independent, Plurabelle shed copious tears -- for she had inherited the sadness gene from her father -- and allowed a decent interval of time to elapse before summoning the courage to read her father's test, presented to her in a long Manila envelope, like a Last Will and Testament, by his solicitors.

After a decent interval to let the beast die, they go find the corpse.

Eschewing the old campaign playbook, they aren't waiting a decent interval to, say, let Obama try his hand at governing in a second term.

The lack of a decent interval at midnight never fails to produce a feeling of suspension to the heart; the moment incompletely elusive, has no reality.

This abandonment of the idea that a decent interval might pass is, though, merely part of the general acceleration in the media.

It may be painless for Washington and the other Western capitals to adopt the strategy of a "decent interval" and declare that they did all for the Afghans that could be done.