Sentences with phrase «bought respectability»
A business / religious cult based on Joseph Smith's hallucinations which has bought respectability with a $ 30 billion business empire, the BYU «mission matured» football team and a great choir.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
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.
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!