Sentence examples for aim for respectability from inspiring English sources

In fact, a great deal of chav-bashing goes on within working-class neighbourhoods, partly because of the age-old divide between those who aim for "respectability" and those who disdain it.

"When he was home and supporting a family, he had what he aimed for – respectability.

Although the RNP aims for respectability, chooses its words "carefully" (it prefers "lowlifes" to "Arabs") and cloaks itself in love of country, it's a decidedly anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and incendiary group.

Happily, Vera has little time for respectability.

He committed himself fully to the Knicks' drive for respectability.

New Money yearned for respectability; Old Money had it.

But at the same time they yearn desperately for respectability.

There are criminal defense lawyers who ache for respectability.

Yoga's bid for respectability began with its home country's campaign for independence from Britain.

Long derided as a city of sleaze, the city is reaching for respectability.

As her own prospects weakened, dreams of romance paled into the modest hope for respectability.