Sentence examples for remain respectable from inspiring English sources

Despite this year's setback, returns over longer periods remain respectable.

How could an enterprise that began as a Victorian gentleman's hobby -- the effort to catalog every facet of the savage mind -- remain respectable in a postcolonial world?

But this doesn't seem to happen to those who got everything wrong about the macroeconomics of a depressed economy; they remain respectable, and even get praised for their consistency.

At least the Cardinals have been able to remain respectable and somewhat interesting with a career year from receiver David Boston (89 receptions, a league-most 1,413 receiving yards, 15.9 average yards per catch and 6 touchdown grabs).

Things looked up after their 121-83 victoverover the Orlando Magic and maybe around that point Knicks fans were wondering if they could at least remain respectable until the return of Tyson Chandler, a.k.a. the entirety of New York's defense.

The obvious hoaxers gain more attention than those attempting to remain respectable.

Even after the public disgrace of Baker Brown in 1866-7, the operation remained respectable and widely used in other parts of Europe.

Nancy, the eldest, remained respectable despite a series of novels that satirized the sexual mores of the upper class.

His poll numbers have remained respectable, but many observers question his ability to continue the campaign due to financial constraints.

The borenium cation 6 can be prepared in situ from BCl3/2,6-lutidine/AlCl3 BCl3/2,6-lutidine/AlCl3ox (provided 2,6-lutidine is slowithouted to BCl3, to prevent ortho-Me activation); 40 using these conditions, the yields remained respectable (Table 2, entries 5 and 6).

Being further down the social scale, they cannot so easily disguise their straitened circumstances, but they remain fiercely respectable.