Sentence examples for lost respectability from inspiring English sources

During the reorganization of Wickes, he had his entire management team adopt names from the strip, and urged them to think of themselves as fighting a science-fiction war to win back the company's lost respectability, which he called Princess Aura.

From 1869 to 1875, Gilbert joined with one of the leading figures in theatrical reform, Thomas German Reed (and his wife Priscilla), whose Gallery of Illustration sought to regain some of theatre's lost respectability by offering family entertainments in London.

The puzzle for hardcover publishers was how to get a piece of the new market without losing respectability or running afoul of the law.

But arguments for inequality of worth or rights between the sexes have wholly lost intellectual respectability.

Europeans think Mr Bush is paying the price of arrogance, has lost international respectability and is now begging for a second chance.

Worse, the government said so, too! "Global warming is a left-wing plot to take away our freedom!" "Amtrak must make a profit!" Even the word "infrastructure" lost its respectability when government had a hand in maintaining roads, bridges, and trains.

Although rational enlightenment thought and the scientific progress it has brought with it have reduced much of our magical and superstitious thinking, it has also led to a hesitation to discuss such issues for fear of losing scientific respectability[ 49].

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

Instead, they're the Crumbs, a Connecticut country-club family that has lost its grip on respectability.

By then, too, Forster had finally lost his virginity ("parted with respectability," as he put it) and had had his first physical affair with a man in Egypt during the war.

The Farc in Colombia attained some respectability in the Caguan negotiations in 1998-2002 but lost it as soon as they went back to war, being dismissed as narco-terrorists who had rejected a reasonable offer from the government.