Sentence examples for achieved a decent from inspiring English sources

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

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

But it is theoretically possible, assuming enough general increase in wealth, that the relatively poor might by now have achieved a decent standard of living, no matter how inferior to that of the rich.

On this, the verdict seemed to be that, by lowering his sights, he had achieved a decent competence, and that his later poems shared with his journals and his autobiographical writings a gift for portraiture and elegy.

On Thursday evening, when the Cleveland Orchestra made its ceremonial appearance, the engineers seemed, for the first time, to have achieved a decent balance between bass and treble, and a great deal of clarity.

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.

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

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.