Sentence examples for be respectable at all from inspiring English sources

The handling of the team must be humane and compassionate and the language used must be respectable at all times.

Acceleration should be respectable at 0-60mph (0-100kph) in less than 6 seconds –more than enough to beat most cars away from the lights.

Growth is respectable at 3.4% a year, but it is slowing and Rajoy's claim to provide a safe pair of hands was proved false when he missed the deficit target last year, leaving it at 5%.

Spending on education is respectable, at 5% of GDP, but Brazil's pupils routinely come near the bottom in the OECD's international comparisons of how much they know.Admittedly Brazil was a late starter in public provision of both health care and schooling.

TIAA-CREF funds' performance is respectable at best, not great.

The local sheriff is none other than Neil's father -- a man who appears to be respectable, but at home terrorizes Neil with threats and violence, and whom Neil blames for chasing off his mother years earlier.

That would be respectable for a rich country at full employment, but for an emerging-market economy with lots of idle hands it is poor.

I see the same gift in the protestors at Ferguson: Failure to be "respectable" (on the terms defined by those in power) is no defeat.

(Everyone interviewed at Even Further declined to give last names. They're respectable adults at this point, and didn't want their consumption chronicled).

They are respectable — or, at least, semi-respectable — men by day, vigilantes by night.

The pizza, too, is respectable, especially at Pisa Pizza in Benghazi, where the pies are about a yard in diameter.