The phrase "a respectable case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an argument, situation, or example that is deemed worthy of consideration or respect.
Example: "The lawyer presented a respectable case that highlighted the flaws in the prosecution's argument."
Alternatives: "a credible argument" or "a valid point".
There's also a respectable case for not.
A respectable case for leaving early can certainly be made.
There's a respectable case for either abandoning Britain's nuclear capability altogether or modifying it into some less costly option.
It did not mean that he thought that there was a respectable case to be made for violent bigotry.
"They should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case - agree or disagree".
A respectable case can be made, in certain places at certain times, for concentrating on good management and making only a few big changes, but making them well.
He did admit that beyond News UK's strategy of completely paid for in print and online – the Sun was the last of the publisher's titles to go behind a pay wall on 1 August – that there is a "very respectable case" for a "wholly free", advertiser-funded business.
But there's a perfectly respectable case that they should have told all those angry writers to tomato off back to Scunthorpe.
I know that there is an intellectually respectable case against Microsoft, but I've got a bad feeling about where we are going.
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The economic and environmental case for high taxes on fuel is sound, but when tax accounts for 72% of the price of anything, it is not surprising that people grumble.Whatever the merits of high taxes on fuel in ordinary circumstances, there is no respectable case for cutting them under present conditions, in the face of bully-boy tactics, actual or threatened, by pickets outside refineries.
