Sentence examples for a respectable purpose from inspiring English sources
The air of mystery has a respectable purpose.
Still, DePaulo said that her research led her to believe that not all lying is bad, that it often serves a perfectly respectable purpose; in fact, it is sometimes a nobler, or at least kinder, option than telling the truth.
In which case, C2 will not be intended as equivalent to C1 but as identifying a reputable and sensible conceptual job the carrying out of which will serve some of the more respectable purposes served by C1 while happily abandoning the others.
So, I became, for a time at least, a lawyer, until I joined a public-sector organization with the uber-respectable purpose of relieving world poverty the World Bank.
Approximately 30% of eligible patients completed clinic visits for this purpose, a respectable rate that is commensurate with what we have obtained using a very similar intervention for other preventive services [ 11, 12].
We make the mom of three, who makes a respectable living as an assistant, feel broken or worthless because she cannot confidently say that this job is her purpose in life.
A respectable showing would suffice.
Unemployment is a respectable 5.5%.
That is a respectable calling.
A respectable conservative.
