Sentence examples for receive decent from inspiring English sources

Can we expect to pay less tax and receive decent public services?

He did not receive decent service, but he seemed to lack confidence or deep desire to turn his luck.

As long as they receive decent after-care, kidney donors suffer only the tiniest increase in their own risk of dying of kidney disease.

Promises were made, but never fully kept, that the women would receive decent pay with skilled workers on the same wage as men.

"Her Majesty wants to make sure all her staff receive decent rates of pay," a courtier told Daily Mail diarist Sebastian Shakespeare.

— NAME WITHHELD, NEW YORK It is your moral obligation to see that those who work for you even indirectly — those from whose labor you profit — receive decent treatment.

The elderly received decent pensions.

(He won back the office in 1986, when Reagan was receiving decent marks from Texas voters).

On the whole, he has received decent run support, though not lately.

Players received decent apartments and increased rations for their startling upset, Gordon said in a telephone interview.

Gregory, 8, a third grader, has received decent marks -- mainly "satisfactory" and "needs improvement" -- on his report card.