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Decent in sentence

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And of course, they're not always crying and screaming, but with three boys, there's a decent probability that at least one of them will not be comporting himself exactly as he should.
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf.
On the contrary, they'll demonstrate that atheists are often the kinds of people who could serve as decent role models for your children, the kinds of people an advertising agent could use to recommend a product, the kinds of people who are sitting in this room.
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level.
You wouldn't want decent hearing, you would want perfect hearing.
We must fix this because ensuring widespread and affordable access to decent infrastructure and services isn't just low-hanging fruit: it's fundamental to achieving the hundred-year leap.
Now, Dr. Wertham was actually a pretty decent guy.
I'm talking about the amount of time we all have in order to put a decent meal on the table.
And I saw from a young age that having a decent job and earning a good living made the biggest difference for families who were struggling.
I have repeatedly been questioned why I would choose to play drums instead of practicing journalism, which I studied for my undergraduate, which has been termed "more decent."
It's not that it's not possible to feed, clothe and house us all and have us live decent lives.
In 50 years they've gone from a pre-Medieval situation to a very decent 100-year-ago Europe, with a functioning nation and state.
For example, can you imagine that decent, civic, talented people are going to run for office if they really do believe that politics is also about managing mistrust?
And if any of us have used these, we know that they're not perfect, but they're decent.
Ventura mid-winter, well, there's still a decent amount.
Now in Los Angeles, you could get a decent sunburn just on any of the beaches, but I got mine indoors, and what happened is that, if you're shooting at 3,000 frames per second, you need to have a silly amount of light, lots of lights.
The facts is, a conservation drone doesn't cost very much more than a good laptop computer or a decent pair of binoculars.
Throughout that career, I never accepted that a filmmaker should set about putting their own work outside or above what he or she believed to be a decent set of values for their own life, their own family, and the future of the society in which we all live.
If we want to provide decent, fulfilling lives for our children and our children's children, we need to exercise to the very greatest degree possible that duty of care for a vibrant, and hopefully a lasting, democracy.
SP: But can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral?
I don't see my job as to punish them or forgive them, but I do think they can have decent and meaningful lives even in prison.
So that was the question: Could inmates live decent and meaningful lives, and if so, what difference would that make?
I am banking on you and I'm banking on guys like Herbie and Quincy and Hackett and Richard and very decent people who still believe in something.
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth.
The most important thing is that they all get a decent education.
They risk their lives to realize a dream, and that dream is as simple as having a decent job somewhere so they can send money home and help the family, which has helped them before.
Although women were then coming out of the universities with decent degrees, there was a glass ceiling to our progress.
No, I gave it up for adoption so it could have a decent life, and then they wouldn't let me back into the convent.
I wanted to get well educated, to find a decent job in the future.
If she really wanted a decent view, she could become a vestal virgin and would sit right down the front.
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