Sentence examples for instead of decent from inspiring English sources

Underlining the gravity of the crisis, Le Monde reports that French holiday-makers are eating sandwiches (a wretched English invention) instead of decent leisurely lunches this summer.Even Germany, which never underwent a housing boom, is reporting its lowest levels of business confidence since 2001.

For that reason, data estimations (using simple GIS modelling and/or questionnaires), instead of decent and accurate actual consumption data, are usually used in the "Klima- und Energiemodellregionen" (KEM 2 and other "energy regions".

I will now always wonder if the supporters I know personally are actually closet racists instead of decent and fair.

On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people".

The truth is that Stewart was often at his most exciting when he got down in the dirt, instead of remaining decent and high-minded, your twinkly-eyed smartest friend.

The president of Malawi has accused Madonna of demanding VIP treatment, exaggerating her charity work and being "a musician who desperately thinks she must generate recognition by bullying state officials instead of playing decent music on the stage".

For her to accuse Mrs. Oponyo for indiscretions that have clearly arisen from her personal frustrations that her ego has not been massaged by the state is uncouth, and speaks volumes of a musician who desperately thinks she must generate recognition by bullying state officials instead of playing decent music on the stage.

Why not "great" instead of merely decent?

Because we teach girls to dress decent instead of teaching boys to act decent.

But instead of doing the decent thing and heading off to the afterlife he is tasked with unravelling a bizarre plot involving money laundering by a co-worker - as a ghost.

Even in relatively liberal Wisconsin, Walker was able to succeed with his attack on public employee collective bargaining because many voters, instead of looking at the decent pay and pension packages and saying, "I want what they have," agreed with Walker that civil servants had it too good.