Sentence examples for respectable background from inspiring English sources

Unlike them he was an immigrant (from the Caribbean island of Nevis) without a respectable background.

But behind his privileged and respectable background, the self-styled "Big K" distributed handguns to gangs and major criminals.

She was the daughter of a shopkeeper from the provincial town of Grantham, a respectable background but one without the faintest whiff of grandness.

"Can this bitch really be from a respectable background?' he went on.

As part of the growing movement to attract Indonesian intellectuals, the marketing staff emphasised the respectable (non-theatrical) background of the actors; the intelligentsia had little respect for traditional theatre and its players.

The narrator is the general practitioner Dr. Faraday, a middle-aged bachelor with a respectable working-class background he can't quite shake off, and an inclination toward diagnoses of "nerves".

Additionally, which will be the main topic of our discussion, there are multiple scientifically respectable sets of background assumptions within a single field, and especially so if the field in question is under development.

Private newspapers and television have embraced the protests with growing boldness, showcasing photographs of "martyred" youths slain in the protests, interviewing their families and emphasising their respectable middle-class backgrounds.

Coming from respectable middle-class backgrounds, they enjoyed working as brazen, hooting, cross-dressing prostitutes in the evening.

Posing as a widow with a background in respectable London, she has gone to the bottom of the world to keep a criminal past at a distance.

As long as the man has decent looks and a respectable career and family background I shouldn't complain.