Sentence examples for respectable type from inspiring English sources

John Kenneth Galbraith's comment that in America the only respectable type of socialism is socialism for the rich has never seemed more apt.

The Commonwealth army relied on cavalry, which the nobility saw as a much more respectable type of a troop than the infantry.

We only want respectable types, it says.

This label will force all of the respectable types in Washington to support it.

Respectable types took to the airwaves to argue that the preoccupation with this parallel discussion was a diversion from matters of more moment.

On first moving to the capital I took comfort from the fact that those descending with me on the escalators seemed respectable types.

Enron filled its board with respectable types, including Robert Jaedicke, the Stanford University accounting guru, and look what happened there.

The respectable types are the true "terror of our age," as Noam Chomsky called them collectively nearly 50 years ago.

Even among the respectable types, you had self-taught naturalists who wandered the continent and saved several species from extinction, were given great-sounding names by Indian chiefs, grew jungles under glass domes, and named plants after their wives' vaginas.

In real life, incidentally, they went out with super-respectable types, including Henry Porchester, later to become Lord Carnarvon, the Queen's racing manager.

Today, the "part troll" looks less wild, hairy creature from Glastonbury, or perhaps Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and more respectable metropolitan type, clutching a sleek phone and sporting a smart jacket and a flowery shirt.