Sentence examples for respectability as from inspiring English sources

These books are directed at a large new middle class, eager for social respectability as well as economic well-being.

Our sex education back then tended to concentrate on fear of pregnancy, infection and loss of respectability – as, I'm told, is often the case today.

The pair of painters lived together during November and December 1888, abandoning respectability as well as their family and friends to commit themselves utterly to their work in increasingly trying circumstances.

It is a tribute to his universally recognised integrity, and to his skill in treading delicately though forcefully (he was very much aware of the cost of respectability as well as of its advantages) that among his many honours from east - including several from his native Poland - and west was the CBE, awarded in 1965.

It's the stuff of fucking nightmares and it all comes down to numbers, to pulling India's birth rate into the realm of respectability as fast as possible.

It's the stuff of fucking nightmares and it all comes down to numbers, to pulling India's birth rate into the realm of respectability as fast as possible.

They need someone to lift Landry Fields and Toney Douglas back to respectability as shooters.

Sir Allen strenuously cultivated an image of respectability as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and sports impresario.

As the trial unfolded, the public enjoyed the scandal of fallen respectability, as the public always does.

For years, Colm Murphy maintained an outward veneer of respectability as a wealthy publican and building contractor.

The strings, pop's dullest default bid for respectability, here work as hard as the m.c.