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This particular drone that we’ve been looking at would be much more effective if it had a decent camera in it. – Chris Lincoln-Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I made a decent wage in San Francisco, but if I don’t find another job, I will have to move out of my apartment because I was paid just enough to live in San Francisco … but I wasn’t one of the people that could sock away a bunch of money. – Michele Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wasn’t a software engineer or an executive, i made a decent wage in San Francisco, but if I don’t find another job, I will have to move out of my apartment because I was paid just enough to live in San Francisco … but I wasn’t one of the people that could sock away a bunch of money. – Michele Armstrong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That’s a pretty decent size. – Edgar Dworsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A theme that can’t go unnoticed this month is how traders are rewarding firms for cutting jobs. With corporate layoffs making headlines each evening, you might think the consumer is strained. Maybe not so much. It turns out that demand is decent. – Frank Newman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don't think we're going to break the fever for the super mega MAGA Republicans, i think they're a minority of the Republican Party. I think the vast majority of the members of the Republican Party, we disagree strongly on issues, but they're decent, honorable people. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think they're a minority of the Republican Party. I think the vast majority of the members of the Republican Party, we disagree strongly on issues, but they're decent, honorable people. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you don't pay your rent, you get evicted. That's just kind of the way it goes. I would not hold that against Warnock for evicting people that's not paying their bills. If I don't pay my bills, they're going to come evict me, i'm not a fan of Warnock, but what he gets from the church is between him and the church… Whether you get $7,000 or $700 a month, they've still got to pay their bills. That doesn't mean because he makes a decent salary from the church that he should automatically pay for all the people that aren't paying their rent. – Brandon Gillespie -RRB- Brown	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is one of those weather patterns where it's kind of boom or bust, we get a decent amount of rain, or we probably get nothing at all, so fingers are crossed, but it's been kind of a weird year. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This president is a good and decent man, he is an honorable man. And your efforts to dirty him up and dust him up are reprehensible. – Stephen Lynch	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Judge Amit Mehta's such a decent guy. – James Monroe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Growing apples is not going to work if we have summers like this every year, our access to water at the moment is purely from the mains. To give apple trees enough water to produce a decent crop would be way too expensive. – Philip Taylor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Bond investors are expecting the economy to cool down, but equity investors are still looking at decent earnings. There are companies with pricing power and stocks that generate income, a 60-40 portfolio is not properly positioned in periods such as this where inflation is running hotter than bond yields. – Wayne Wicker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are still a lot of people under age 55 who have exited the labor force who have not come back. There are more than 1 million of them, and I would still expect a decent number of those people to come back, but the more that time passes, the harder it is to be sure. – David Mericle	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We hope( Jamie Spears) will accept Jamie Spears losses and simply move on and leave Jamie Spears daughter alone, that is what any decent man, what any decent father would do. – Mathew Rosengart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's a decent-sized deal. – Jason Furman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I had a decent chance of getting it out on the green, so I just went for it, better than taking a drop, that's for sure. – Nelly Korda	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use. – Mike Young	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The thing about rivers and groundwater resources is they don't lie, someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use. – Mike Young	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just let him stay close enough to pressure me there while we had decent tires and never could get enough of a gap, made a couple mistakes. I was gaining a gap there a couple times and made a couple mistakes and let him get back close enough to get me out of sync, and then after that just started struggling. – Chase Elliott	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I've always been a happy person, and I always tried to treat people decent, that was my goal in life. – Courtesy Whisler family	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s not even about being an ally, i ’m not saying I ’m not, but just be a decent f ----- person. Just be a decent human being. And judging someone and trying to justify it with religion and saying all sorts of spiteful, hateful s --- … It’s crazy to me. It’s mind-boggling. Who cares who someone wants to be with ? Or their sexual preference ? – Jeff Molina	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public, and instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said,' I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails... and release them.'. – Marc Elias	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there are some decent questions going on, not nearly the same that if President Trump or any other Republican were in office, but I think he’s actually, finally, getting a few hard questions. – Greg Murphy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

This particular drone that we’ve been looking at would be much more effective if it had a decent camera in it.

– Chris Lincoln-Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I made a decent wage in San Francisco, but if I don’t find another job, I will have to move out of my apartment because I was paid just enough to live in San Francisco … but I wasn’t one of the people that could sock away a bunch of money.

– Michele Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wasn’t a software engineer or an executive, i made a decent wage in San Francisco, but if I don’t find another job, I will have to move out of my apartment because I was paid just enough to live in San Francisco … but I wasn’t one of the people that could sock away a bunch of money.

– Michele Armstrong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s a pretty decent size.

– Edgar Dworsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A theme that can’t go unnoticed this month is how traders are rewarding firms for cutting jobs. With corporate layoffs making headlines each evening, you might think the consumer is strained. Maybe not so much. It turns out that demand is decent.

– Frank Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think we're going to break the fever for the super mega MAGA Republicans, i think they're a minority of the Republican Party. I think the vast majority of the members of the Republican Party, we disagree strongly on issues, but they're decent, honorable people.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think they're a minority of the Republican Party. I think the vast majority of the members of the Republican Party, we disagree strongly on issues, but they're decent, honorable people.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you don't pay your rent, you get evicted. That's just kind of the way it goes. I would not hold that against Warnock for evicting people that's not paying their bills. If I don't pay my bills, they're going to come evict me, i'm not a fan of Warnock, but what he gets from the church is between him and the church… Whether you get $7,000 or $700 a month, they've still got to pay their bills. That doesn't mean because he makes a decent salary from the church that he should automatically pay for all the people that aren't paying their rent.

– Brandon Gillespie -RRB- Brown

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is one of those weather patterns where it's kind of boom or bust, we get a decent amount of rain, or we probably get nothing at all, so fingers are crossed, but it's been kind of a weird year.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This president is a good and decent man, he is an honorable man. And your efforts to dirty him up and dust him up are reprehensible.

– Stephen Lynch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Judge Amit Mehta's such a decent guy.

– James Monroe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Growing apples is not going to work if we have summers like this every year, our access to water at the moment is purely from the mains. To give apple trees enough water to produce a decent crop would be way too expensive.

– Philip Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bond investors are expecting the economy to cool down, but equity investors are still looking at decent earnings. There are companies with pricing power and stocks that generate income, a 60-40 portfolio is not properly positioned in periods such as this where inflation is running hotter than bond yields.

– Wayne Wicker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are still a lot of people under age 55 who have exited the labor force who have not come back. There are more than 1 million of them, and I would still expect a decent number of those people to come back, but the more that time passes, the harder it is to be sure.

– David Mericle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We hope( Jamie Spears) will accept Jamie Spears losses and simply move on and leave Jamie Spears daughter alone, that is what any decent man, what any decent father would do.

– Mathew Rosengart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a decent-sized deal.

– Jason Furman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had a decent chance of getting it out on the green, so I just went for it, better than taking a drop, that's for sure.

– Nelly Korda

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use.

– Mike Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The thing about rivers and groundwater resources is they don't lie, someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use.

– Mike Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I just let him stay close enough to pressure me there while we had decent tires and never could get enough of a gap, made a couple mistakes. I was gaining a gap there a couple times and made a couple mistakes and let him get back close enough to get me out of sync, and then after that just started struggling.

– Chase Elliott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've always been a happy person, and I always tried to treat people decent, that was my goal in life.

– Courtesy Whisler family

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s not even about being an ally, i ’m not saying I ’m not, but just be a decent f ----- person. Just be a decent human being. And judging someone and trying to justify it with religion and saying all sorts of spiteful, hateful s --- … It’s crazy to me. It’s mind-boggling. Who cares who someone wants to be with ? Or their sexual preference ?

– Jeff Molina

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public, and instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said,' I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails... and release them.'.

– Marc Elias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there are some decent questions going on, not nearly the same that if President Trump or any other Republican were in office, but I think he’s actually, finally, getting a few hard questions.

– Greg Murphy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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