Sentence examples for respectable establishment from inspiring English sources

This is a respectable establishment.

The bay windows and full-length lace curtains identify this boarding house as a respectable establishment.

This year, the club was renovated, and it now looks like a respectable establishment, with a state of the art sound system, a proper stage and theater lighting.

The gospels consistently present Jesus as consorting with people reviled by the respectable establishment - with "sinners", publicans (who were regarded as traitors because they collected the Roman taxes) and prostitutes.

Mothers were not only driven to send their daughters away, however, they 'ambitious' for them, searching out places in respectable establishments in towns where aspiring middle-class families preferred them to the town-bred, less deferential girls.

Brunch is a cash grab and that is the only reason why perfectly respectable establishments subject themselves to this wrath.

Unfortunately for some visitors, they were sometimes sent to less than respectable establishments where operators took full advantage of the tourist trade.

The owner insists Sneek a Peek is a respectable retail establishment with a respectable suburban clientele.

It may well be true that, unlike the Birmingham bombers of fifty years ago, who sat within a shadowy network of support from the respectable white establishment, Dylann Roof acted largely and crazily alone in Charleston, without that network.

The American novelist Sol Yurick, who has died aged 87, was too radical, too extreme and too violent for the respectable literary establishment of New York, yet no writer more fully embodied the city's anguished spirit in the 1960s.

Whatever form his vision of "the Beast" took whether it was the Communist Party bureaucracy, the boardrooms of corporate capitalism, the "respectable" academic establishment, or the vast military and political structures of the Cold War Thompson consistently voiced his own passionate and constructive opposition.