Sentence examples for public respectability from inspiring English sources

As Clarke remarks: "The widespread use of and public respectability for 'the Pill' by the late '60s put a new pressure on women.

And also, to some degree, Ken Burns's television series "Jazz," with its subplots about the music's slow move toward public respectability and its importance in the history of civil rights.

In their quiet scenes together, Mr. Hart and Ms. Hackett find both warmth and reserve, and you sense in their silences and commonplaces the deep dynamic of a working-class marriage built on private intimacy and public respectability.

The criminal, Highsmith said, was the perfect example of the modern hero, "active, free in spirit".One question that inevitably arises is how much Patricia Highsmith, a woman of the utmost public respectability, who never even diddled the taxman of a penny, lived another awful life deep in the dungeons of her mind.

From dodgy contractors, paid cash in hand, to paragons of public sector respectability like executives at the BBC and the Department of Health, paid through limited companies.

But you don't deserve it and won't earn it: you will not stop torture, allow criticism, obey the law, or keep your fingers out of the public purse.Luckily, respectability is on sale.

These investments provide the veneer of respectability, public relations and other resources for Portugal to be the laundromat for the Angolan regime, and to maintain its open door to international markets and diplomacy.

For example, young women with their peers tended to draw a lot on the discourse of the empowered modern woman, but with adults, and particularly their parents, they were more likely to draw on the feminine respectability, public health and traditional health beliefs discourses.

Rather, it seemed clear that he had emerged from the fertile ground of a racism and an Islamophobia that had attained a degree of respectability in public debate in Norway.

Hence, when young men were with their peers they drew more on the predatory masculinity discourse than on the men's respectability and public health discourses.

It is that anybody claiming respectability in British public life thought it appropriate to have even social dealings with oligarchs like Mr Deripaska - who rose to power and riches first in the aluminium business in the 1990s, which witnessed some terrifying violence, and then at the court of Mr Putin.