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They are lively and confident places, with jobs and training for the young and leadership from respected and respectable man and women in their 40s, who have learned the punishing lessons of a lifetime's struggle against impossible odds, and are striving to give their children a taste of the "normality" they never had.
Sounds like a 1970s porno, but is actually an ancient and thoroughly respectable Arabic pastime, and the second it started, it immediately went to the top of my "Why El Fenn is better than everywhere else" list.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable , and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
All three were respectable efforts with fun to be had by reader and pasticheur alike – though for a more illuminating angle on Austen, turn to Jo Baker's Longbourn, which cunningly retells Pride and Prejudice from the servants' perspective.
After Davis tripled his majority to 15,355 on a low but respectable 34% turnout in Haltemprice and Howden, David Cameron said he was "delighted" with the result while adding that he still had "a very strong shadow cabinet" without having to take Davis back.
For Jin Shujun, a 50-year-old former soldier whose family is facing eviction from their single-storey home, the mayor may have given Datong respectable roads, but he has also emptied neighbourhoods of people.
Some were horrified at the idea of respectable mothers leaving their families for squalor and for politics.
That gives him an edge on Marine Le Pen, whose efforts to reposition the FN as more mainstream and respectable have been hampered by Jean-Marie, the former paratrooper-and-proud of it who ran the party for decades and seems unduly fond of the Holocaust.
The film somewhat underperformed at the US box office, but made a respectable $708m worldwide.
In front of a respectable crowd of 14,000 the Titans led the Wests Tigers 12-6 down the stretch and twice, at 12-all, they had good field position from which to attempt a winning field goal.
When, in 1870, he began his 20-volume Rougon-Macquart series of novels, a panoramic portrait of life in Second Empire France (1852-1870), sales were respectable but nothing special.
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The adjective "respectable" primarily functions to ascribe the quality of deserving respect to a noun. Ludwig AI confirms that this usage aligns with standard grammatical conventions. Examples include describing a person, their accomplishments, or the reputation of an organization.
Expression frequency: Very common
