Sentence examples for a need for respectable from inspiring English sources

They filled a need for respectable, inexpensive meals served fast.

There was a need for a "friend to the honest financier and the respectable broker".

However, the main focus of his campaign has been on emphasising the need for a respectable turnout to accord legitimacy to his new mandate.

Judicious pardoning has been an important legacy of some of our greatest presidents.... [T]here has never been a greater need for a robust and respectable pardon program.

Las Vegas has become a location for respectable, even family, holidays.

He had an uncontrollable charm for respectable middle-aged women.

But Selig and Wilpon also discussed the beleaguered state of the team and the need for a strong and respectable N.L. franchise in New York.

An officer since 1983, Sergeant Alexander said he attended the academy for the most fundamental reason: he needed a secure, respectable job to provide for a young family.

The cameras also do a respectable job of capturing the rear view, eliminating the need for a mirror on the windshield.

As James Walston of the American University of Rome says, "for most of the period since the war, Italy needed a respectable centre-left party.

Ruthless election-winners, they needed a respectable front.