Sentence examples for perceive as decent from inspiring English sources

As readers will know, last Sunday I was accosted in one of my local pubs by a group of trade union, Labour, and Green Party-aligned activists posing as the champions of what some may perceive as decent causes.

Schools perceived as stronger blocked the way.

What did they perceive as insults?

What do you perceive as normal?

It's perceived as naughty enough.

The injury to Mark Wood, Woakes's strange ineffectiveness when he has played (it is hard to discern much wrong with his method but he just doesn't get international batsmen out), and a belief that for all Liam Plunkett's apparent pace (not as ferocious as some perceive but still decent) he does not gain any movement, has opened the door for another paceman.

To attract the interest of caregivers in investing in time-consuming preventive treatment they need to perceive a decent prospect of gain from their investment.

"He's so widely perceived as a good and moral person — kind, philanthropic, decent," Mr. Carnahan said, and indeed the 47-year-old Mr. Cheadle is a good-will ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program and has long campaigned for the end of genocide in Darfur.

Michele Bachmann 538 forecast (most likely outcome): 8 percent High end of forecast range: 15 percent Low end of forecast range: 2 percent Although Mrs. Bachmann's polling has sometimes been decent in South Carolina, Iowa has long been perceived as her strongest state, particularly given that she won the Ames straw poll and that she once led the polling there.

Interviews indicated that through the Decent Work Agenda, the International Labour Organization is shaping the global policy narrative about work among UN agencies, and that the pursuit of decent work and the Agenda were perceived as important goals with the potential to promote just policies.

Describing her constructive approach, Beard said she did not simply want to be perceived as a "long-suffering female parent" scolding her errant teenager, adding: "If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.