Sentence examples for minimally decent from inspiring English sources

Nordenfelt takes us far by defining health as the abilities to achieve vital goals that lead to minimal happiness or minimally decent life.

A minimally decent employment standard, to me, overrides the case for a free market".

The principle of guaranteeing the elderly a minimally decent income and minimally decent health care is now so firmly established that the linkage to a particular tax may no longer be necessary.

Even for a worker holding two jobs, wages are too low, housing costs too high for minimally decent survival.

Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy and the board can stop paying for private programs if they make minimally decent public programs available for all children.

As a result, a commitment to two longstanding American ideals -- equal opportunity and a minimally decent life for citizens of a wealthy nation -- has been lost.

As even this brief characterization may suggest, accountability theories tend to be blameworthy-oriented and understand blame as a response to a violation of those moral obligations which members of the moral community have to behave in a minimally-decent fashion.

To undermine that argument would entail going back and objecting to Nordenfelt's reasoning about health as being able to realize goals necessary and sufficient for minimal happiness; that is, a minimally flourishing, decent, non-humiliating life in the modern world.

For example, 'acceptable' or 'normal' may have been interpreted as the health needed to live a decent life, the health needed to live a minimally tolerable life, some average indication of actual health at older ages or the health needed to maintain one's standard or aspiration of life.

The minimally furnished, wood-floored rooms have a cool, sparse style; some have decent views of the distant city skyline.

Vozick-Levinson described the album's track "This Is It" as being an "uplifting ballad" and felt that "if you're feeling generous" you can "count the minimally distinguishable" orchestra version of "This Is It" having thought of it as being a "decent if slight addition to Jackson's songbook".