Strip-searches and worse ensue as apparently decent people agree to perform monstrously indecent acts at the instruction of a "voice of authority".
Karen Buck, a well-respected and decent backbencher, agreed to pull together a letter that tried to close the discussion by saying Blair would not last in Downing Street beyond the next party conference.
But "all decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse".
If an auction failed, the interest rate would rise to a penalty level that no company — or municipality — with decent credit would agree to pay for long.
"What I can comment on," he added, "is the fact that all decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse".
"Companies should not wait for governments to pass laws before they pay a decent wage or agree not to pollute the environment," Mr. Annan said after he had presided over the daylong meeting here.
Surely ALL decent people can agree that is a good thing.
"What I can comment on is the fact that all decent folks can agree on, that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse.
As all who use their eyes and ears know, there are many toadies in modern Britain, and decent people like you must surely agree, seeing how decent you are, that our voice deserves to be heard.
International election observers are confident that Mexico's independent election commission will do a decent job, but most agree that the Commission is weaker now than it was in 2000, in part because the commissioners are all taken from the PAN and PRI there is no PRD representation.
But shorn of Clintons and Bushes, and with two candidates who most agree are decent sorts, perhaps the divide will be a little more civil this go round, more allowing of honest and (let's admit it) irreconcilable differences of opinion.
