Sentence examples for his respectability from inspiring English sources

Had he signed the EU deal, Mr Yanukovych would probably have reneged on its terms, at the same time using the union's imprimatur as evidence of his respectability.

Tyler becomes humanized during the Faustian journey he undertakes after losing his wife, his job and his respectability to the sinister forces that have framed him — while inadvertently tipping him off to a huge stock swindle with grave consequences.

What's changed is his respectability: news organizations are no longer as eager to downplay Mr. Limbaugh's extremism as they were in 2002, when The Washington Post's media critic insisted that the radio host's critics were the ones who had "lost a couple of screws," that he was a sensible "mainstream conservative" who talks "mainly about policy".

Kafkaesque bureaucracy deems him ineligible for sickness benefit; as a middle-aged web neophyte he finds online applications for jobseekers' allowance an ordeal, but, having embarked on this frustrating, humiliating mission to prove his respectability, he can't accept jobs that come up.

Later, Burns realizes that he has lost all his respectability because he can no longer control anyone.

The company's perception of his respectability seems to have changed over the weekend, as Airweave announced Monday it, too, had no interest in a continued sponsorship.

Hamish Hamilton; £25Matisse's detractors used to praise his bourgeois respectability while condemning his art.

And Margene, who seemed headed for dissipation, found in marriage to Bill and his wives respectability and stability.

In the film, Jamie Overstreet is a single, middle-class guy in shirtsleeves, and his pedestrian respectability is bundled into Nola's Dickensian name; he first spots Nola while waiting for the bus at Fulton Mall.

In one fateful night, Edmond Burke sheds his pinstripe respectability and turns into a jailhouse punk, dragged naked and shackled through a prison cellblock to a chorus of hoots and jeers.

Estrada was clearly the latter, with his mistresses, his disdain for respectability, and the cronies of his "Midnight Cabinet" feasting on late-night buffets and slurping Château Pétrus by the case.