Sentence examples for respectable role from inspiring English sources

Cora is the respectable role player the Mets have always had, in good years and bad, someone knowledgeable fans could appreciate.

There is, however, a more fundamental question: the president's assertion that military commissions have long played a respectable role in American legal history.

The statement also noted that "Miley is an intelligent, respectable role model for young girls, and we at J-14 pride ourselves on presenting our readers with credible stories and information.

In 1887, Anton Chekhov said in a letter to Maria Kiselyova that the writer "should... acknowledge that manure piles play a highly respectable role in the landscape and that evil passions are every bit as much a part of life as good ones".

By Rebecca Mead In 1887, Anton Chekhov said in a letter to Maria Kiselyova that the writer "should... acknowledge that manure piles play a highly respectable role in the landscape and that evil passions are every bit as much a part of life as good ones".

This can underpin the proposition that in a face culture like Vietnam, the idea of saving face is very important to people, especially those who, like teachers, are regarded as playing a respectable role in society and perceptions of face influence teachers' behaviours in classrooms (Nguyen 2016).

But Pearson was already a veteran actor on stage and screen, often taking middle-class, "respectable" roles as detectives, MPs, vicars and doctors – and was adept at showing the vulnerability of such apparently "solid" characters.

It's a grim coincidence that these local heroes of crime are wearing the same fashion icons which the respectable black role models - the top athletes like Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan - are promoting on TV.

But by 2007, when the American troop surge was in full swing, the State Department -- then under Condoleezza Rice -- had managed to achieve a respectable supporting role on the ground, deploying some 700 civilians in provincial reconstruction teams that helped fix sewage systems and train Iraqi judges.

While a respectable supporting role is the very least that beckons some of the young jumpers who entered the stage at Exeter yesterday, it may be premature to suppose that all the Flat season's Oscar winners are already in the wings.

These days, no respectable scientist denies the role of genes in forming our brains and characters.