Sentence examples for it that decent from inspiring English sources

But how was it that decent people like Sam and Lavender Aaronovitch – or my parents – could stick with the Party when they all knew, at some level, about the inhumanities for which the communist movement was responsible?

He said the British public would be too "sensible" to vote for it and that "decent people" should expose what it stood for.

It's partly a question of meritocracy: in a land in which appointments are invariably made through nepotism rather than competence, it's perhaps inevitable that any investigation has holes in it and that decent lawyers are able to find them.

And when we see the Conservatives helping their rich friends to avoid paying taxes, we know that's not fair because it means that decent hardworking people have to pay more.

Knowing Blago intimately, Bill Powell had a chance to tell us something important about how it happens that decent people can be so easily depraved by going into politics.

O.K., not that story, maybe, but something like it that had at least a decent possibility of being true.

It's true that decent behaviour seems to more meaningful when it is witnessed by an audience, as anyone who's seen a boastful Facebook status about how "I just gave a Greggs pasty to a tramp.

"It is outrageous that decent, law-abiding citizens get treated as if they have got something to hide," Mr. Clegg said.

A decent enough climber and time trialist, it's just that decent needs to become excellent if he wants to compete with the big boys.

"It is high time that decent wages were paid for decent work again," he said.

When I was a socialist believer, I too found it hard to imagine that decent human beings could support free markets.