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What I do remember is the following scene, played out at various times throughout my youth: "But I can't sleep!" I'd protest as my parents tried to wrestle me into bed at what they called a decent hour, meaning any time before 1am.
BACK in the late 1990s, when Colombia was the world's kidnapping black spot, the guerrillas of the FARC would throw up roadblocks on isolated stretches of the country's highways, hauling off anyone who looked able to pay a decent ransom, meaning anything from $5,000 to several million.
Eat some decent food (meaning not candy and Mountain Dew) and take in the day.
In the opinion of Robert Curwin, author of Inside Newark, Booker was decent, well-meaning but largely ineffectual.
Followers of these movements against Irish, Germans, Italians, Chinese and other immigrants were mostly decent, well-meaning people trying to protect their country.
That said, Ms. Zellweger is fine as the decent, well-meaning Emily, her little-girl's voice kept in check by a script that doesn't encourage her to lose her head every five minutes.
By the same token, the film's token authority figures are depicted as decent, well-meaning professionals, even if they are the tools of corrupt and corroded industrial culture.
One-third of private rental homes in the UK fail to meet the national Decent Homes Standard – meaning they either contain safety hazards or do not have acceptable kitchen and bathroom facilities or adequate heating.
