Sentence examples for achieve a decent from inspiring English sources

Many people in Tunis are still struggling to achieve a decent standard of living on low or sporadic earnings.

Instead, it seems to be one more obstacle our neediest neighbors face to achieve a decent life.

The working poor, scandalously, cannot achieve a decent standard of living (read the Trust for London reports on this exploited group which gets no respite).

What is now needed is legislation to enable property rights and to assure that sensible forestry laws make it possible to achieve a decent living.

We assessed that if we could control — achieve a decent level of security — in those 80 key districts over a reasonable period of time, that would be enough to make the Taliban strategy irrelevant.

Only about half of English pupils achieve a decent pass in English and maths exams for 16-year-olds, Mr Gove notes: in Singapore, the proportion is four in five.

The demonstration appears peaceful, and also achieved a decent turnout.

The state is now close to achieving a decent compromise bill.

Carol Morley's The Falling has achieved a decent £319,000 so far, in relatively limited play.

With a reasonably robust £87,000 from 33 cinemas (including negligible previews of £1,500), the film, set at an Alpine ski resort, achieved a decent average of £2,648.

"In Portland, Maine, I came closest to achieving a decent fit between income and expenses," she wrote, "but only because I worked seven days a week".