Sentence examples for decent occasion from inspiring English sources

It looked a decent occasion in Melbourne on Sunday, but on balance I would rather have been in Whangerei to see the Samoans give the Kiwis such a fright.

Cave and his band of occasion play a decent brand of fiddle-led balladry and blues, and in Emmylou Harris and Ralph Stanley have borrowed two of country's most revered voices.

Generally, the occasion was played in decent spirit but the sporadic return of unwanted chants within the Rangers songbook was apparent.

De Rerum Natura discusses the gods, their nature and their relationship with us on more than one occasion, offering us a decent glimpse of Epicurean theology.

Because the point for me is that flicks are special – they require effort, patience, maintenance, occasion and a half-decent outfit.

Gomez had an early header from Jérôme Boateng's cross saved, but thereafter there were too many occasions when Germany got into decent wide positions but failed to deliver the final ball.

"We got to 2-0 uplayedyed some decent football opened them up on numerous occasions and (couldn't) finish the game off.

As some liberals have argued, it seems implausible to think that consumption of pornography, on a single or even repeated occasions, will cause otherwise "normal, decent chaps" with no propensity to rape suddenly "to metamorphose into rapists".

"It is disappointing really because the occasion warranted that we put a decent performance," he added.

He acknowledged meeting him on "several occasions", adding that Mr Zaharie was a "decent man" and "close friend" of the opposition party.

The message is clear, and true: Obama was a good President, and is a decent man, and to lower the bar a bit displayed on every occasion his work ethic and basic sanity.