My friend is a wholly decent, patriotic citizen of a country he no longer recognizes, even as the view from his window remains a rural New England pasture.
The actions of authorities have been everything from ham-handed to wholly decent, as well as occasionally easy to lampoon (county buses, for instance, plastered with Archie and Jughead imploring our children to think before they drink).
Factor in Alien: Isolation and Telltale's second season of The Walking Dead and it's been a wholly decent year for licensed games.
To the modern mind, of course, this is wholly unacceptable, and any decent literary agent would have counselled Miss Austen to devise at least a modicum of private scandal if she wanted to sell any books.
Private pensions have not worked out as expected, annuity rates have fallen sharply, and our state pension is wholly inadequate to provide a decent lifestyle for most people.
The 69-year old Klinghoffer, a decent, Jewish and wholly innocent man, was ultimately shot dead in his wheelchair and then unceremoniously tossed into the sea.So what's the problem?
Ros Altmann, director general of the Saga Group, said the move could help generate work for younger people: "Private pensions have not worked out as expected, annuity rates have fallen sharply, and our state pension is wholly inadequate to provide a decent lifestyle for most people.
This struggle that many blacks face just to get their kids a decent education is wholly un-American, and its persistence means the institutional racism leaders like King dreamed would die out remains.
Horace James, a staunchly antislavery Congregationalist minister, longed to prove that freedpeople were more self-reliant than "dependent" white Southerners; he denied rations both because he was stretched thin and because he wanted to convince the North that former slaves "ask nothing more than a decent chance to make themselves wholly independent of government aid".
The bracing North Sea air clearly suited the excellent Eljero Elia who scored both the visitors' goals on an evening which, wholly characteristically, concluded with Newcastle having a decent-looking penalty appeal for handball discounted in stoppage time.
All Americans, he emphasizes, "want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours".
