Sentence examples for weren't respected from inspiring English sources

The European Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly warned France that "free circulation and the freedom to live in other countries" within the European Union were fundamental rights written into treaties and if they weren't respected the commission would use "all the means at its disposal to sanction violations".

In mid-century Hollywood, he was considered a successful director — for a little while — but his movies weren't respected (any more than, for instance, Alfred Hitchcock's were), and, when he had a few flops in a row, his commercial reputation vanished, too.

They told me they weren't respected, their ideas were talked over and they were expected to do more administrative tasks than their male co-workers despite having the same job titles.

Tourist sites and schools weren't respected before.

After looking forward to this day for weeks, my child and her girlfriend weren't respected.

Her academic field was not respected, women the world over weren't respected, the current party Central Committee in Hanoi had the lowest number of women of any socialist or communist governing body worldwide, zero, and beyond all that, it was like America had already slaughtered her boyfriend, whose body was laid out on the stairs.

At a PTO meeting, some teachers said the parents weren't respecting teachers' work.

Weren't respecting their teammates or coaches or the staff or the [front] office.

Those wishes were not respected," she said.

The question is why they were not respected.

Minorities didn't exist, diversity of views and opinions were not respected.