Sentence examples for decent dedicated from inspiring English sources

The heroes of this book are the decent, dedicated and often odd people who ensured that what might have gone wrong did not.

I have known Mr. Von Essen as a decent, dedicated citizen who assumed his career responsibilities as a firefighter, union leader and fire commissioner with dedication, honesty and great imagination and spirit.

Interviews with his supervisors, his colleagues and former wife, though, offer a picture of a decent, dedicated officer, who used his wits to talk his way out of trouble.

ExxonMobil has many enemies on the progressive and activist side, but I can say with pride and without equivocation that J. Stephen Simon was one of the most honorable, decent, dedicated American patriots you'll ever find.

They come across as decent and dedicated, the kind of guys you would want to have around in time of trouble.

My heart swelled as I sat with them and heard the witness of these decent, altruistic, dedicated people.

Anyone from any party should be able to join--unlike the Blue Dogs who masquerade party infighting as pragmatism, there are actually a number of decent and dedicated politicians who want to do what's best for America, not just their party or re-election.

Ms. Goodwin seems like a dedicated, decent, smart and well-intentioned historian.

As a boss, Frith was conscientious, dedicated, decent and highly moral.

If Biden is going to bust the primary race open, he will need to provide a compelling justification for his candidacy, likely one that goes beyond the personal saga of a decent man and dedicated public servant who is seeking to fulfill the hopes of his dead son — touching and uplifting as that would be.

Jack Lew is, by all accounts, a decent guy and dedicated public servant, but like so many of our recent treasury secretaries -- Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner -- is so deeply immersed in the old boy nexus of Wall Street and government as to have little comprehension of how, in the midst of a soaring Dow Jones, so many millions struggle to make ends meet.