The phrase "a respectable case for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when presenting a well-reasoned argument or justification for a particular viewpoint or action.
Example: "The researcher presented a respectable case for the need to invest in renewable energy sources to combat climate change."
Alternatives: "a valid argument for" or "a strong justification for".
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.
That is why there is a respectable case for using fiscal policy actively to counter the downturn, since that will increase demand directly, either through tax cuts or higher public spending.
There is, of course, a respectable case for any tax cut: it may boost the incentive to work more; and it boosts spending, particularly if aimed at low earners who can afford to save less.
But he shows some sign of learning on the job, and, even if he has authoritarian instincts, they may be checked by experience.In sum, there is a respectable case for optimism about Russia; but there is a case for pessimism too.
There's a respectable case too for saying the EU has mishandled its evolving relationship with post-Soviet Ukraine, to Ukraine's detriment.
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 Ameriks argues that the B-Deduction should not be interpreted as providing an argument for the sufficiency claim, and a respectable case can be made for his reading (Ameriks 1978; Pereboom 1995; Patricia Kitcher 2011: 115-60).
It did not mean that he thought that there was a respectable case to be made for violent bigotry.
A respectable case can also be made for raising Russian gas prices to wean its near neighbours off their Soviet-era subsidies.Living with a bearYet it is clear that Russia under Mr Putin has moved sharply away from the chaotic but recognisable democracy that he inherited, and towards a centralised and intolerant autocracy that stamps on the merest hints of independent opposition.
