Sentence examples for over decent from inspiring English sources

Mr. O'Connor is no stranger to the battle over decent housing for the poor.

In state governments, parties presiding over decent economic growth have been re-elected, as in Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha; those who fail to deliver have been booted out, as in UP and Rajasthan.Surveys point the same way.

May said: "This bill is the first step of many that this government is taking to reduce the control of the state over decent, law-abiding people and hand power back to them.

"So, after one win over decent but unexceptional opposition, Gareth Bale brags about his team's passion and belittles his next opponents by saying that none of them would get into his country's team.

In May's first 100 days as home secretary in 2010, she introduced legislation to scrap Labour's £4.5bn national identity card scheme, saying it would be the "first step of many that this government is taking to reduce the control of the state over decent, law-abiding people".

In his twenties, he finally finds himself in New York among likeminded people — people who want to debate the novel of the moment (or the Nabokov they just re-read), or whether they are moral failures for ignoring the fact that stuff they like is made in China, over decent red wine in a Brooklyn bar.

It wasn't as if he'd been content to live the way his parents had expected him to live, taking over their decent farm.

The officers came over as decent, good men with female officers on the margin to help arrest women pimps and their victims.

This helped create over 70 decent paying middle-class jobs in less than 18 months.

Most of the editions sold out, covering their costs with enough left over for a decent lunch.

Full-length ballets may be costly, but cheeringly there's enough money in the 2010 11 pot left over for a decent quota of new work.