Sentences with phrase «at respectability»

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Much of this is marketing, particularly the part that is aimed at political operatives in Washington D.C., where the site has been making a major push for respectability, according to a recent piece in Politico.

In his childhood he lived a leisurely life of ease and bourgeois respectability, with wealth and servants at his disposal.

A second force at work was the growing power, prosperity and respectability of Pentecostals themselves.

War, militarism, landlordism, predatory industries, and finance are the demons he named that shape social institutions toward fostering their own respectability and perpetuation at the expense of justice.

Their churchmanship is part of their respectability — not hypocritically professed, they believe it after a fashion — but the profound experiences of the soul which transform character, sustain strength and courage, dedicate life, and make God intimately real, they have not known at firsthand.

They at least establish the philosophical respectability of «God - talk» in the contemporary world.

TK is excellent at riding shotgun with Giroux and Couturier, because those guys create a ton of space for him, but he can't carry Filppula and Simmonds to possession respectability, and neither of those guys can keep up with him.

At that level, you're taking a flyer on a guy who can bring you to respectability, and I'd argue that we have that guy at the momenAt that level, you're taking a flyer on a guy who can bring you to respectability, and I'd argue that we have that guy at the momenat the moment.

The Orioles» 34 — 23 finish to the 2010 season, combined with a glut of young pitching talent, heralded a breakthrough year — or at least respectability.

For the Astros, it marks a serious turning point in what has been a long road back to respectability: they are buying at the deadline, doubling down on contention, and in the process added a significant starter to line up behind ace Dallas Keuchel in a rotation that needed that boost.

While I understand it will annoy the fans who have paid to see the current team, in almost every sport the system is set up to vastly favor a team that tanks in terms of getting back to respectability (or at least to acquire the assets that can get a team there, whether or not they're capable enough to use them is another question).

Liverpool legends took a 4 - 0 lead against Real Madrid, with Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen both scoring, before Los Merengues scored thrice in the last ten minutes to lend the scoreline a level of respectability in this charity friendly at Anfield Continue reading →

Barry Beyerstein, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, wrote about the technique of applying a veneer of scientific respectability as a way to improve the status of pseudoscientific beliefs.

From dodgy contractors, paid cash in hand, to paragons of public sector respectability like executives at the BBC and the Department of Health, paid through limited companies.

• At ScienceInsider on Thursday, Mi - Young Ahn and Dennis Normile reported that discredited stem cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang «suffered a setback in his bid to reclaim respectability today when South Korea's Supreme Court confirmed his conviction on embezzlement and bioethics violations.

Taking the exchange of letters at face value, they achieved the society's objective of pouring public oil on troubled waters and restoring respectability to the dealings between two of its fellows.

There it was a stab at dramatic respectability that worked beyond anyone's expectations.

Kick - Ass is both shockingly violent and riotously funny, with a script from Vaughn and Jane Goldman that pushes at the boundaries of respectability and then breaks right on through.

Together these powerful voices bring, at once, a respectability and realism to the animated story.

Stephen Thrower's monumental Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco fervently embodies that consciousness, serving as culmination of a quarter - century of impassioned proselytizing by fans once on the margin, until, at some point, the balance shifted toward unexpected respectability.

At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as «backward» villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.

Previously, she worked at disability rights advocacy group RespectAbility as a communications fellow.

They're then given the opportunity to purchase the anthology (often at a «special discount»), along with various extras — including a biography, having the poem read onto audio tape, having the poem mounted on a plaque or embossed on a coffee mug, membership in poets» societies, attendance at expensive poetry conferences (celebrity hosts often lend these events a misleading veneer of respectability).

Taber, whose 2005 bestseller Judgment of Paris detailed the crucial 1976 victory of California's Stag's Leap and Chateau Montelena wines over their French rivals, takes a widely researched (as per the subtitle) but highly entertaining tale about how the issue of cork spoilage has roiled the winemaking industry and lifted the once lowly screwtop and other non-cork options to at least relative respectability.

It was also a statement to the gay community, which Opie saw as chasing respectability at the expense of sexual radicals like her and her friends, who were avid practitioners of sadomasochism.

In 1981 Gough designed the hugely successful exhibition on Sir Edwin Lutyens at the Hayward Gallery, which lent respectability to his trademark flamboyance and whimsy.

Then when he moves on to his first attempts at the style we know as Mondrian, it comes as an enormous shock to see, because you realize that underneath all this almost staid respectability there has been something churning that made him keep moving.

Known for appearing drunk and unruly on live television, Emin has toned down her behavior in recent years and is enjoying her respectability, having been made a professor of drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Artist Tracey Emin, whose journey from controversy to respectability has been marked with a CBE, said receiving the honour felt like being «pushed in at the deep end».

All set around a swimming pool, the quintessential gateway into middle class, Fischl claws at the veneer of decorum, respectability and success to expose a society saturated with consumer goods but devoid of humanity.

Please, mike — as someone who cares about you, unless you've got something hidden up your sleeve that you haven't yet revealed I'm begging you to stop now, take your losses, and try to rebuild at least some semblance of respectability.

A shonky web survey is given respectability by its author's professorship and tenure at a university, by peer - review, and by publication.

By speaking, Stern gives all involved — and particularly the WCA — the veneer of respectability they received when Figueres spoke at their International Summit last year.

RP Jr's post at 538 has elicited what is probably the most reprehensible and contemptible smear job that I have ever seen of a scientist, at least from an organization that has any pretense of respectability.

McKibben, in Washington, D.C.: «The fossil fuel industry has behaved with such recklessness... that at this point they deserve to lose their social license, their veneer of respectability.»

They have behaved with such recklessness that at this point they deserve to lose their social license, their veneer of respectability.

I can just imagine the grave shaking of heads, and the solemn declarations that while the Guardian may not have technically breached Journalistic guidelines and standards and were basically truthful, they still should be shamed for failing to meet the impossibly high standards set by their enemies — whose own conduct is not assessed — these latter standards then even being embraced by some of their erstwhile allies in order to buy «balanced» respectability at their expense!

Other references used for our analysis include: Mary C. Gurnee, et al, Constructing Disease Management Programs, Managed Care, June 1997, accessed at http://managedcaremag.com, 5/19/2000; Peter Wehrwein, Disease Management Gains a Degree of Respectability, Managed Care, August 1997, accessed at www.managedcaremag.com, 5/18/00; John M. Harris, Jr., disease management: New Wine in Old Bottles, 124 Annals of Internal Medicine 838 (1996); Robert S. Epstein and Louis M. Sherwood, From Outcomes research to disease management: A Guide for the Perplexed, 124 Annals of Internal Medicine 832 (1996); Anne Mason et al, disease management, the Pharmaceutical Industry and the NHS, Office of Health Economics (United Kingdom), accessed at www.ohe.org, 5/19/2000; Thomas Bodenheimer, Disease Management — Promises and Pitfalls, 340 New Eng.