Sentence examples for A respectable activity from inspiring English sources

Investigators said while drugs were highly stigmatised, timber certification is a respectable activity and was also lucrative.

Journalism is not a respectable activity in Britain; it has certainly never been considered a profession, for which qualifications and decent conduct are required.

Just as you need a well-populated tribe of hitchers to create the perception that it is a respectable activity, so any gift economy needs a self-sustaining momentum for it to work.

It was 50 years ago this month that America's surgeon-general sounded that warning, marking the beginning of the end of cigarette manufacturing and of smoking itself as a respectable activity.

On Day Two I clocked up a respectable activity profile but disaster struck when I attempted to sync the device.

In return, by running editorials and regular columns on the wheel, plus special articles by bicycle enthusiasts and medical men, the press and magazines made cycling an increasingly more discussed and respectable activity.

After the prohibition years, 'The Hump' is credited with moving the outfit into more respectable activities such as the control of unions and financial institutions and then into entertainment, gambling and Las Vegas.

Poker was now, thanks to Binion, Slim and their colleagues, a respectable and popular activity, with a growing following of professional players and fans.

His life has all the look and sound of a fully respectable intellectual activity, rather like, one feels uneasily, the life of a string theorist today.

Gidsy was founded in 2011 and attracted a lot of interest, building a respectable community with booking activities in more than 140 cities and 40 countries.

Finally, the calculated disease activity score had a respectable diagnostic power to discriminate between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.