Sentence examples for making it respectable from inspiring English sources

Tony Pastor, a ballad and minstrel singer, is credited both with giving the first performance of what came to be called vaudeville by the late 19th century and with making it respectable.

The German auto industry was a key player in this, not only in advancing diesel technology but in making it "respectable" across vehicle segments.

And they both are making it respectable to be intolerant," said Lawrence Powell, chair of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, a group created specifically to stop Duke in the 90s, and which has removed its mothballs only recently for this Senate race.

GE was one of the firms that made it respectable to outsource, so its decision to bring some of the IT work home is expected to prompt other companies to follow.The most prominent reshorer of services has been General Motors.

The Real Estate Record and Guide criticized details like a fake chimney, improbably rising out of a dormer window, but said that the massiveness of the house made it "respectable in spite of its monotony and the irrationality of its detail".

"If you debate it, you make it respectable".

This wasn't respectable and there was nothing I could do to make it respectable".

The fight of parents to try and kill it off, make it respectable.

Overnight she made it respectable for women to write cookery books.

Now price and success, too often the determinants of value, have made it respectable.

As the British brutalist architect Peter Smithson, an Eames-admiring contemporary, put it: "They made it respectable to like pretty things".