Sentence examples for decent member from inspiring English sources

We need to make sure that you are a decent member of society and we need to check that you actually own the property that you say you do.

— Eric Asimov Salon: "How do you stay a decent member of society while abandoning the foods that most people eat every day?" A convert to the gluten-free gospel tries to keep the faith while not driving everyone around her nuts.

At the heart of his account, and the beginning of this novel, is the "mystery" of the disappearance of Godfrey Winshaw – the one decent member of the family – in a secret mission over Germany in 1942, and of Tabitha's deranged insistence that their brother Lawrence is to blame.

Otherwise do not expect decent members of the British public to do nothing while international law is breached on a daily basis.

In his letter Mr Jackson wrote: "I feel that it is inappropriate for government ministers to be involved in such a distasteful act, which I am sure is a huge embarrassment to decent members of the Labour party and, more importantly, offensive and distressing to Dr Kelly's family and friends".

They victimize and terrorize decent members of the black community struggling to survive a devastating economic crisis.

This is simply not true, as evidenced by the many decent members of the French Resistance who, under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives.

Adapted by the Caribbean-born writer Caryl Phillips from V.S. Naipaul's first novel published 45 years ago, it's about the bizarre career of Ganesh Ramsumair (Aasif Mandvi), a decent, ineffectual member of Trinidad's Indian community with a voracious appetite for books and vague literary ambitions.

After the Capitol is blown up during a State of the Union  speech, a low-level, compulsively decent Cabinet member becomes president of the United States.

Mr Dugher told Sky News: "Good, hard-working, decent, loyal members of the Shadow Cabinet have had their reputations trashed in the newspapers because people in the employment of Jeremy have been giving those stories to the newspapers that all these people were going to be fired in some kind of revenge reshuffle.

United Russia could entrust Parliament's ethics committee "only to the most honest, decent and ethical member of the State Duma," he wrote.