Common Errors in English Test: Decent Descent Dissent

Every day, thousands of people enjoy an affordable, decent^ meal in our restaurants, and we take this responsibility very seriously.| This is a decent^ hotel if you have children.| Surely most decent^ people believe that politics is about trying to make the world most just and more decent^.| There is only one decent^ and humane reaction to the fall of Saddam Hussein - good riddance.| The United States, he said, will "encourage reform in other governments by making clear that success in our relations will require the decent^ treatment of their own people".| Those who cannot work often find it difficult to afford a decent^ apartment.| 20 years later they are still without clean water, health care, or decent^ work.| What we need is a new world equilibrium, where there are good-quality, decent^ jobs that allow people to live with dignity.| We are helping the long suffering people of that country to build a decent^ and democratic society.| Workers on hundreds of coffee plantations in Africa and Latin America are now getting decent^ wages for their labor.| He's a compassionate, decent^ man, who will do a fine job in the World Bank.| They are providing homeless people with decent^ accommodation.| He is dating a fellow student, an American who is of South Asian descent^.| Workers in automobile factories did have to fight for their rights to a decent^ wage and improved working conditions.| They did not provide a decent^ standard of living for a worker and family.| Yushchenko is the only decent^ man, in his words, who can make Ukraine prosperous and free for all.| Afghanistan's President, who is here today, now represents a free people who are building a decent^ and just society.| Even though AIDS patients in Thailand receive decent^ health care, most still suffer in isolation, afraid of discrimination.| London media say they are British-born men of Pakistani descent^, ranging in age from 19 to 30.| It proved that the rules adopted by the Geneva Convention, which require decent^ treatment of captured soldiers, could be implemented and adhered to on a large scale.| It is going to be easier to convince that decent^, accountable government not to want or need the bomb.| We are helping the long suffering people of that country to build a decent^ and democratic society.| Child labor is dealt with in the context of decent^ work for all.| Where else but Duluth, they say, could they find decent^ work and restaurants and theaters -- and still hunt deer and grouse.| Then something called CT scans came into being and you could get a pretty decent^ picture.| So the goat her family received earned them enough money to make a decent^ living and, eventually, send her to school.| He's in his early 30s and makes a decent^ living cutting people's hair, but he is by no means wealthy.| In many ways, Elena has made a decent^ life for herself in America.| "He is a good friend, a decent^ man, and a skilled negotiator," the president said.| There are a lot of good and decent^ people in both parties who serve the nation out of a great sense of patriotism and duty.| You know, we are a compassionate people and we are a decent^ people.| Mike Tyson said that he is trying to be a decent^ man and that his future seems much brighter than his past.| They want decent^ jobs and the hope for a better future.| People want decent^ homes to live in.| Again, it listed many efforts to suppress dissent^ in China.| Cuba has released five more people who were unjustly imprisoned over a year ago in a massive crackdown on dissent^.| The crackdown on dissent^, says Secretary of State Powell, was "calculated to cast a pall on the development of an independent civil society in Cuba".| Communications Minister Piteng Tchalla told VOA he is outraged by these attempts at dissent^.| The law is used by the Castro government to suppress dissent^ of any kind.| Critics accuse the government of President Alexander Lukashenko of stifling media freedom, political dissent^ and democracy.| Human rights groups have long condemned Egypt's restrictive state of emergency, saying the government exploits the threat of terrorism to squash political dissent^.| The crackdown on political dissent^ in Belarus has intensified.| And, this is obviously their heavy-handed attempt to control the flow of information, to make sure that no political dissent^ to the current regime rises up amongst the population.| The crackdown so far appears to have stifled dissent^.| Demonstrations are rare in Vietnam where the communist government keeps a tight lid on dissent^.| Political dissent^ is not tolerated.| The Ethiopian Human Rights Council's Birhanu Tsigu says the revoking of the press credentials is the government's latest move to harass journalists and silence dissent^.| Communism was officially adopted by the late 1970s, and Mengistu's government continued to stamp out government dissent^.| Latheef says the president is attempting to buy time in a country where dissent^ runs high.| The policy of using brute force to resolve political dissent^ is being used less.| Human Rights Watch, criticizes the government's measures, saying it is a violation of the activists' right to the freedom of speech and the freedom of dissent^.| The military junta is hostile to all forms of political opposition and dissent^.| Uzbekistan continues to ruthlessly crack down on political dissent^.| He exercised power through a sophisticated structure of security services, revolutionary courts, emergency decrees, informers, and the crushing of dissent^.| Four other Indian players were fined or suspended for showing dissent^ to a match official.| We call on the government to end immediately its efforts to suppress peaceful dissent^.| State Department says Burma punishes political dissent^ and carries out extrajudicial killings.| He says the identification of his wife as a C-I-A officer was punishment for his dissent^.| His police state ruthlessly eliminates anyone who dares to dissent^.| Dale Talley says between 75 and 80 percent of babies born here are of Hispanic descent^.| Serufuli said that most of the displaced were, like General Nkunda, Congolese of Rwandan descent^ and they had fled their homes fearing reprisals by the government soldiers.| The museum has exhibits of famous Americans of Arab descent^, like activist Ralph Nader and radio personality Casey Kasem.| A lawyer for Osman Hussain, the British citizen of African descent^, said the hearing on a British extradition request took place today-Saturday in Rome.| Issac, a British citizen of Ethiopian descent^, was arrested last Friday.| Police say one suspect, a British-born man of Pakistani descent^ with possible links to al-Qaida, is believed to have masterminded the bombings.| There were many Americans of Japanese descent^ who came to her interviews and said we want to know the truth.| The mission's only technical flaw occurred during Huygens' descent^ when one of two communications channels malfunctioned.| The space probe relayed the information during its parachute descent^ toward Titan Friday and for several hours afterward on the surface.| Hours later, police in Rome arrested a third suspect -- a British citizen of Ethiopian descent^, Hussain Osman.| A majority of Bolivia's almost nine million people consider themselves of indigenous descent^.| Thousands of people of Korean descent^ live in Japan, and many support Pyongyang, sending cash, food and other items to the North.| Fujimori - who is of Japanese descent^ and received Japanese citizenship since fleeing Peru - wants to make a political comeback next year.| Police say 204 people were arrested in the latest violence, which has been carried out mainly by Muslim youths of North African descent^.| In fact, the top four finalists were of Indian descent^.| Tudjman oversaw his country's move to independence and subsequent descent^ into war.| Dianna Derhak is an American of Ukrainian descent^ living in Kiev.| More than one million Canadians are of Ukrainian descent^.