do the decent thing

Well, are you going to do the decent thing and sell him back to his family or not?

Part of being a democracy is learning when you need to step down and do the decent thing.

He did the decent thing, and dropped them from his speech.

Of course, he had done the decent thing and ignored it.

"Then do the decent thing," he said against her mouth.

They wanted their government to do the decent thing but not to bankrupt them in the process.

He said the Government should now "do the decent thing and take these proposals off the table".

Why on earth the power that be refuse to do the decent thing is beyond me.

If she was wrong she would do the decent thing.

Good old Dad, however, did the decent thing and the binoculars were mine.

Do the decent thing and think of others please.

Why couldn't you have done the decent thing and died long ago?"

"It gives the robots an excuse to do the decent thing."

If one came across something unpleasant, one did the decent thing.

He must now do the decent thing and resign.

In the letter, he also wrote: "Do the decent thing.

I had done the decent thing, put an end to her poor counterfeit of life in the most suitable way possible.

He knew he should do the decent thing and not marry her.

Ivy knew with a sick certainty that he was going to do the decent thing.

It was simply the act of a decent man doing the decent thing.

Is there not a single Commissioner prepared to accept responsibility for this and do the decent thing?

"Perhaps she simply thought she was doing the decent thing.

He tried to do the decent thing all along, but in the end he was human, and I am glad of it.

"I really have to get a bit more work done, so do the decent thing and push off, eh?

You try to do the decent thing, and where does it get you?"