So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.
There are other facts, but suffice it to say that the run on the banks and eroding confidence led to a reduction in market liquidity, and the stock market was en route to a decent of nearly 50%.
If there is a chance of earning a decent rate of return on any funds invested in, as opposed to donated toward, such a mission, all the better.
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Those pioneers founded the Labour Party because they wanted everybody to have a decent standard of living, a decent job, a decent home.
John Brennan synthesized a lot of that and they walked through a decent portion of that yesterday in the Situation Room.
Again, a lot of that has been -- a decent amount of that you guys have covered and reported over the past several months.
If the senior players fail, the younger and more inexperienced players do not look as if they are capable of making a decent fist of a moderate run-chase.
What she found was that young born as a result of adultery were 30% more likely to survive for at least two years, and thus have a decent chance of breeding themselves, than those fathered by a female's permanent male partner.
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What you get for your money is a brace of decent shocks, a spray of special effects (look out for the upward-raining bathwater), and almost no sense of dread.
The keys, much like the rest of the phone, are made of metal and offer a decent amount of give.
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Mark Cato, a lawyer who writes a popular blog, is hoping for a decent bottle of Bollinger, a log fire and a good cigar, surrounded by his family.
When the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5%, it took the wind out of the sails of anyone looking for a decent rate of interest.
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It did so because only 400 of the peers tended to show up, and by some miracle of British improvisation made a decent job of improving the legislation sent to them from the Commons.
Choosing the size of your policy means having a decent idea of what your company is worth.
Build to the lowest price possible with tight margins and relying on the volume of sales to make up a decent slice of income.
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Believing this, after the market fall of April and May we bought a decent chunk of European stocks in our asset allocation portfolios.
One of the development goals set by the United Nations at the millennium was to halve the proportion of people without basic sanitation and a decent source of fresh water by 2015.
One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.
Within ten minutes of assembling the data, Cox had a decent list of direct mail targets.
The thought was that the IRS could at least churn out the rules by spring of 2005, and give employers and executives a decent amount of time to act before 2006.
"He has changed the lives dramatically of the majority of Venezuelans, he's altered the country forever, his policies have reduced poverty more than half and have brought people out of dire circumstances (who) today enjoy a decent standard of living, " Golinger said.
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Unfortunately we weren't whitelisted at the time so we couldn't use any of our own data, but we still got a decent idea of how it all works.
The stakes could hardly be higher for them in May, with retaining their leadership of those authorities as important - and for much of the party, even more important perhaps - than retaining a decent number of AMs was in last year's poll.
By the end of the season, presumably enough information has accumulated that we have at least a decent idea of who the best teams really are.
The 1979 game featured more than half the players (47 out of 86) from the teams' first Super Bowl meeting, giving them a decent amount of familiarity with each other even after three years had gone by.
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Helped by the fact that nobody in his right mind could contemplate the purgatory of another leadership contest before the next election, the Lib Dems put on a decent show of unity at their party conference in September.
There's also a lack of enclosures for the Pico-ITX motherboard size, where there's a Catch 22 situation of manufacturers unwilling to create cases for a limited market, and consumers unwilling to buy motherboards without a decent array of cases.
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So I think school supply sales are spread out over a decent amount of time.
"I think Wales are within a decent shout of beating the Australians next week, " Henry said.
Foursquare has also done a decent job of making its policy changes understandable to primates.
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