Sentence examples for respectable that from inspiring English sources

Maureen Dowd correctly notes that as a former president, Harry S. Truman stated that he would never involve himself in "any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency".

Was Clinton supposed to tell the publishing company in Lagos, "I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the Presidency"?

In all, four days in early May took me to eight bars (hardly a record, but respectable) that ranged from longtime favorites like Grogan's and Kehoe's to a dream of a gastropub (how I wish there were a better word) that proved, again, Dublin's ability to surprise.

A self-described macho "street linguist" for whom fieldwork is part pub crawl, Bickerton has a penchant for big ideas and a "total lack of respect for the respectable" that, judging from his new memoir, has put him at odds with bureaucrats and colleagues.

"They knew what they had to say to get their baby saved, and it was that they had had been respectable, that they had fallen from virtue, and that they could return to respectability if they could give up their babies.

Though, in a certain sense, gayness has become so respectable that it's square.

What could be more respectable than that, you may well ask?

"That's respectable and that's something that has to happen.

But what killed Brown was much more subtle, sophisticated and ― above all ― respectable than all that.

The problem is that it is a respectable ideal that doesn't actually address the reality of sending our girls out into the world.

Its members and sympathizers know that if they stop killing, they'll be nobodies in their towns and cities, they'll no longer be "respectable" -- that is, fearsome and opportunistic.