Sentence examples for a decent operation from inspiring English sources

The pallets business, he says, is a decent operation, with no global competitor.

PNC adds a decent operation in the higher-growth Southeast and should be more committed than Toronto-based R.B.C., which had suffered almost three years of losses and dithered over a long-term strategy.

"It was a decent performance.

Buy a decent iron.

But building a decent-size operation takes time and money.

Hochschild shares are 10p higher at 146.1p, the biggest riser in the FTSE 250, but analyst Ben Davis at Liberum Capital said: Overall a decent result, but operations remain very marginal at today's spot prices, they have project financing for Immaculada, but need a positive on silver to be buying the stock here.

A decent balance sheet, profitable operations, low stock valuation levels and a decent dividend combine to make the stock look attractive.

General Allen: As deputy commander of Centcom, General Allen would have a decent understanding of ongoing operations in Afghanistan but there would still be a significant learning curve involved if he were to assume command in Afghanistan.

Far from creating an organized political movement that could overthrow the established order, Trump hasn't even bothered, so far, to set up a decent get-out-the-vote operation in Iowa and New Hampshire — a failing that some political experts believe could be his undoing.

And it does not have the strategy, aggression, clout or ballast, provided by more stable profits from rich-country operations, to make a decent fist of these.

At the other end of the spectrum from greedy corporate officers are business owners who balk at paying themselves a decent salary, even while running profitable operations.