He scored 206 goals for Newcastle – he has already done more for that club than could ever have been decently asked.
It is never enough, whatever the temptation, to mock the age in which you live; the mockery must continue to peal, like an echoing bell, long after the objects of your scorn have been decently laid to rest.
In the following day's Guardian, the TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith refused to believe that the matter had been decently settled by the broadcast, and wrote eloquently of the wounds the affair had opened.
A point not touched on was the even more serious situation facing the millions who may have been decently employed for years, but who were laid off their principal jobs after age 50.
I'll be honest, it wasn't an easy to task, but we have been decently successful in our mission".
Finally, as I read the long list of celebrities who performed on stage, I kept wondering how many Wal-Mart workers in the audience could have been decently paid from the retainers charged by Taylor Swift, Lionel Richie, Justin Timberlake, and Celine Dion.
Although the economy has been doing decently and profits for the companies making up the S&P 500 are likely to be 20% higher this year than last, on the eve of the election share prices stood roughly where they had on January 1st, having surrendered all the gains they had made earlier in the year.
Perhaps the bigger issue has been the loss of decently paid, secure public sector work that offered ethnic minorities decent employment.
The general red-rose consensus throughout the professional era has been that if they played half-decently, they would win.
I've been playing decently lately and I wanted to try my best," he said as he landed a first prize of €158,500 [£132,700] in the opening event of the 2010-11 season.
