Sentence examples for respectable measure from inspiring English sources

Microsoft reputedly performed worse tax alchemy, and, by any respectable measure, Romney-Bain-Vulture-Capital certainly did.

In a later piece by O'Connor in 1975, he wrote that TVTV "gained a respectable measure of national success with 'The Lord of the Universe'".

They possess respectable amount of latent heat.

On Facebook, HotorNot is one of the top 50 apps (No. 45 last time I checked not a blockbuster app, but respectable), as measured by its 130,461 active daily users (out of nearly 2 million total registered users) on the social network.

The ARWU is generally considered one of the more respectable attempts to measure quality and is widely recognized.

Each chamber had approved respectable if incomplete measures that could be combined in one outstanding bill.

Loan credit measures seem respectable.

For another, the BRIC economies have been expanding so fast that even a slowdown should still leave them with growth rates that look respectable to Western eyes.One measure of the BRIC countries' new importance to the car industry is that, recession or not, global car sales in 2008 may still hit an all-time record of about 59m.

That is certainly respectable, but doesn't quite measure up to the mania that Firefox 3.0 set off last summer, when it achieved a "world record" 8.3 million downloads in a single day.

CBS's most touted new drama, "Person of Interest," finished with a respectable 3.1 rating in the 18-49 meandre, and 13.2 million viewers, but the tea leaves were not especially promising.

"The amount is respectable," he says.