Sentence examples for decent even though from inspiring English sources

I want them to be decent even though they are growing up in an environment surrounded by indecency and a media that celebrates awful behavior.

They want to get a decent price, even though Coca-Cola's offer fell from $840 million initially to $733 million.

If only they'd read this marvellous little book that some chappy called Flynn – he's a decent sort even though he is Labour – wrote back in the 90s about how to survive as an MP.

America has had Puerto Rico for about 120 years; it would perhaps have been better treated by a Spanish government interested in showing it could rule a colony in a decent manner, even though all the other Spanish colonies, save for a tiny one in North Africa, were happy to break with Spanish rule.

Yet I stayed; something within me refused to consider a decent apartment, even though I could afford it.

No one is saying dockworkers don't make a decent wage (even though the figures released by management are wildly misleading).

DeVry and competitors like American Public Education, Strayer Education, Corinthian Colleges and Apollo Group have been riding some decent price momentum, even though the past month has been enough to make many investors nauseous.

Marc Kinchen and Kant nearly made a decent tune here, even though it's a remix, but a superfluous vocal gets in the way.

Nor could I muster a decent elevator pitch, even though I wrote an article on that topic in March.

Roger Ebert is a decent film critic, even though I find many of his reviews totally off-kilter.

Lancashire hotpots, simple beef stews (albeit not homemade – the school canteen did semi-decent ones though!), even curries..