Sentence examples for had been decent from inspiring English sources

Until Cheney's appointment in the autumn of 1995, Halliburton's business results had been decent.

He had been decent to her, assiduously decent, and she truly liked him.

He had been decent enough, even well liked, as a teacher in London, Michael said, but at Greystone, where he took over, he had quickly become a monster.

In a comparison likely to inflame the anti-war camp, he said that appeasers in the 1930s had been decent people but had turned out to be wrong.

In 1979, he hesitated to write that he knew South Africa had almost invaded another country because he was begged not to by Hendrik van den Bergh, once the nation's most powerful policeman, now disgraced, but an old lunch companion because he had been decent in arresting Pogrund in 1961.

If the conditions in which they were working had been decent, the incident would never have happened.

"We have been decent in every game.

Monty has been decent, at times exceptional.

And returning the pies would have been decent, too.

Kidd has been decent shooting from behind the arc.

Job-market growth has been decent, but the jobs added have not.