Sentence examples for gain respectability from inspiring English sources

Eager to gain respectability, they built temples.

It took the potato a couple of centuries to gain respectability in Europe, and the colonies; medical authorities held that the potato encouraged leprosy.

Tainted with servility as well as with the brutality of needy knights on the make, vassalage was slow to gain respectability.

Lopez stood to gain respectability, too, and shed the gangster's-moll image of criminality still shadowing her from the P Diddy days.

Affleck stood to gain respectability again as a suave ladies' man, after emerging from rehab and from disapproval for dumping America's sweetheart, Gwyneth Paltrow.

The wiki, a quirky software technology that has been kicking around the Web since the mid-90's, is starting to gain respectability.

Thanks to Galton, statistical laws gained respectability in science.

More rapidly than even its most ardent supporters would have believed, the program has gained respectability.

In the late 19th century, thanks to pioneering collections by Cecil Sharp, Lucy Broadwood and others, folk music gained respectability.

Though rare, this formation gained respectability when Boris Spassky used it against Tigran Petrosian in their world championship match in 1966.

Although initially regarded with scepticism by mainstream psychologists, the practice has gained respectability thanks to research indicating its clinical effectiveness.