Sentence examples for respectable enough for from inspiring English sources

Just as the campaign for gay marriage is sometimes more about respectability than equality, Milk's real life wasn't respectable enough for this hagiography.

He's not respectable enough for that title.

Romney made Trump respectable or respectable enough for a Republican debate stage.

She hopes one day to be considered respectable enough for marriage, but without a father to give her away or any known relatives, men abandon her.

Because writing at home was one of the few paid occupations respectable enough for middle class women, writing was an attractive choice for women needing to support themselves or their families.

This is all respectable enough for the 26-year-old, although time is running out for his fame to extend beyond a precipitous-looking place in this top 10.

He was allowed to retake it and achieved a respectable score, good enough for him to get on the podium at his home Games.

He was once among the top 10 students in a class of 2,000, but his ranking fell to the top 300, respectable but not good enough for Tsinghua or Peking universities, the Chinese equivalent of Harvard and Yale, to which he aspired.

He added: "I know perfectly respectable half-Jews in the BNP... even Hitler had honorary Aryans who were of Jewish descent... so whatever's good enough for Hitler's good enough for me.

He looks sufficiently respectable, could even pass for Portuguese, but that's not good enough for Sarah's family — even though her father was one of the original convicts transported from London, now known delicately as "an old colonist".

It's now respectable enough to be marked out not for police attention but for tourists up the Berliner FernstehenTurm – although, as I was politely reminded, it's also a home - a Haus that, now in its prime, will reach three score and 10 thanks to a new 30-year lease.