Sentence examples for decent stand from inspiring English sources

The hosts' second dig had relied on a decent stand between Root and Ian Bell with some late order biffing from Mark Wood to get the target above 400 with two full days left.

They either get off to a flying start with Marcus Trescothick, if he is available, or they put on a decent stand in the middle, but as soon as the fourth wicket falls the end is in sight.

In the pub, it is cheaper to get a bottle than a glass, and you find that Scampi Fries are a decent stand-in for a real fish supper.

Hundreds of men, young and old, tribesmen in short sarongs and others of African decent stood in rows.

They work well as for sterile, laboratory testing, but don't always offer a decent stand-in for real world usage.

Or can decent Indians stand with them?

The poor, who are unable to afford a decent lawyer, stand at the mercy of a judicial system that simply wants them to disappear.

Never has it been more important for the decent to stand up to the intemperate, to ignore the promptings of fatigue and pride.

Peter Stones Marioo would make a decent hat stand, or living statue.

Jetties Beach, just north of town, was the family crowd pleaser with a far expanse of warm, shallow water, a decent concession stand and -- while we were there -- seal sightings.

Rawls's vision is of a perpetually peaceful and cooperative international order, where liberal and decent peoples stand ready to pacify aggressive states, to secure core human rights, and to help struggling countries so long as they need assistance.