Sentences with phrase «basically decent people»

There used to be depictions of politicians being basically decent people struggling to do the best job they could, but since the 1980's this narrative began to change.

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Because the people who last the people with whom others most want to do business the people who set the pace for the rest are quietly and consistently principled individuals operating in a basically decent way.

So, basically, I'm standing up for the values of this country because that is what decent people do.

Basically «decent» people could dwell therein.

This image problem — doubtless exacerbated by the freshness of the hacking scandal — is also reflected in the finding that more people believe that politicians are «basically decent and honest» than, say, the same of journalists.

That a mere 17 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 agree that «most politicians are basically decent and honest» tells you all you need to know about political engagement.

Without committing to the additional funding, the Government has basically given people the rights to decent care without the money to exercise those rights.

Basically a tall decent looking charming person that is ambitious and or is settled in life and knows how to treat a woman as she should be, which is as a lady.

I'm a Slytherin with Hufflepuff tendencies and a lot of Hufflepuff friends — basically, I fit the Slytherin traits but with a protective - of - my - people spin on it so that gives you a pretty decent idea of who I am.

Somehow people are impressed by having giant sub-par looking landscapes and tons of NPC's even if it substitutes an actually decent combat system, or basically any gameplay mechanic that's even remotely challenging or polished.

He learns your name and looks you in the eyes and basically does the bare minimum decent thing a human should do when they meet new people but he's a celebrity so HE»S THE NICEST MAN ALIVE.

Ned is surrounded by people of varying degrees of selfishness, who, in turn, can not understand how a grown man could possibly still buy into the notion that people are basically decent.

Or if he has, he's failed to do so to my face, and I'm just one of the people to whom basic decency requires Dana to say something, or would require him to say something if he himself were basically decent, which is the very assumption I'm challenging here.