They could compile a respectable election-year record by reducing the regulatory burden on small businesses, simplifying the vetting of corporate mergers and streamlining judicial procedures.
Stirrup remarked on the importance of ensuring "respectable elections".
Romney earned a respectable third on "electability" in the general election.
A front-page story in The Washington Post divulged all the details, including Nixon's prediction that conservatism would be "politically respectable" by the next election.
Few observers in Denmark took the Alternative seriously when it launched, in 2013, but just two years later the new party was seated in parliament; this year, it turned in a respectable performance in local elections.
The two parties believe that the Tories, who came a respectable third in the general election, will struggle.
The party has also done well to hold roughly the same number of local council seats as it had in the mid-1990s.All mid-1990s.Allo a respecthise pointsmance in toe coming election.
Though few if any Harlem politicians expect that Mr. Powell would prevail, a respectable showing in this year's election against Mr. Rangel might help to establish him as a logical successor.
We are in danger of giving a boost to some middle-of-the-road candidate who will, in all likelihood, make a respectable showing in the general election but ultimately lose.
He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.His reformist rival, Mir Hosein Mousavi, a popular prime minister during the war with Iraq, may also mount a strong challenge.
Prince Ali bin al-Hussain of Jordan, who became the default choice of Mr Blatter's critics in last week's election, achieving a respectable tally of about a third of the votes cast, bravely ran on a platform of transparency and distributing more money to football in needy places.
