Sentence examples for Standards of respectability from inspiring English sources

By the standards of respectability, they might as well be licking at gobs of ejaculate.

That rigid standards of respectability politics are still imposed on young Black people who are also demanding not to be the victims of reckless gun usage is an example of how victimhood is often racialized in America.

(Somewhat conspicuous in his absence is Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, whose name often is often invoked in India as the gold standard of respectability and ethics).

I did my dissertation under Harold Wilensky, analyzing comparative organizational data to show that rising educational requirements for employment were not due to technologically-driven demand for skills, but to changing standards of cultural respectability; this later became my 1979 book The Credential Society.

Lloyd Williams, Robin Copeland, Alex Cuthbert and Harry Robinson all crossed to earn a measure of respectability.

We see the trips to the pawnbrokers, the pressure to maintain bourgeois living standards, "the show of respectability," as Marx put it to his closest friend and co-conspirator, Friedrich Engels.

Then Giuliani, a former U.S. Attorney and mayor of New York City, began talking about his standards for respectability.

And the respectability standards of Jersey visitors seem to decline each year". Today, 134 years later, some present-day Jersey residents could be forgiven for feeling that the co-author of the Communist Manifesto was bang on the button.

Even by the standards of Belgium, home of bourgeois respectability and inner surrealism, Martens's exit from public life has been spectacular and bizarre.

Censure is a fig leaf that Congress can hide behind to affect an air of respectability and responsibility while meeting neither standard (editorial, Nov. 20).

PiS's veneer of respectability is probably tarnished for good.