Sentence examples for decent tradition from inspiring English sources

He breached every decent tradition of the sea by refusing to land the men and women rescued by the Tampa and sent them off to Nauru.

A waste of a perfectly decent tradition, if you ask me.

Where are they now, the men of the old Stuben families-Schneiders, Fritzes, Walches, Richtlers, Maties-fine simple mountain folk, steeped in decent traditions.

With the rest of the world griping about waiting in five-hour lines to have their toothpaste confiscated, some of us are more than happy to cut flying from our travel routines entirely and focus on rekindling our affection for pretty much America's only decent tradition--the roadtrip.

A really decent New York tradition comes to an end.

Canada had a decent Winter Games tradition on which to build.

Spread over Good Friday and Easter Monday, that seems a decent compromise between tradition and commerce.

The only true archivists of the whole history of a soap are the perpetual watchers, the loyal audience, whom, out of a truly decent sense of tradition and constancy, the ever-changing writers try not to betray.

It doesn't mean to say they are knocking back £400 bottles of champagne; [it's] over a couple of glasses of wine and a decent meal, there's a tradition there and I think they would expect it.

Being a decent, considered building in the modern tradition, it has a big glass wall.

"Crouch End are a decent and busy amateur choir in the long tradition of decent and busy British amateur choirs," says The Independent's classical music critic Edward Seckerson.