Sentences with phrase «for respectability»

When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

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.

Raised in Michigan, she was a high - school cheerleader, member of the color guard, and volleyball player, who was known, in the corridors and locker rooms of River Valley High, as «Barbie» and who was surely bound for respectability as it was measured in 1980s Michigan.

Just as a college, founded by a denomination, reaches for respectability, severs its church ties and becomes a secular university, and just as a colony, settled by citizens of a motherland, rebels and becomes a nation, so a dynamic spiritual movement tends to become one more institution, one more system, one more bureaucracy.

That rhythm is established with the arrival of the title character, played — in her neverending quest for respectability — by Sharon Stone, who does fare well in this, her first major comic role.

The Claim contemplates «hope» in a great many ways: Dillon's hope for the railroad and for redemption, a blousy Portuguese singer's (Milla Jovovich) hope for respectability, Dalglish's hope for emotional completion — but, like Polley, The Claim's «hope» is pallid and deceived.

That's the good side of her contempt for respectability.

Luckily, the inherently depraved environment of social media cares little for respectability, and this adorable dating game about, well, dads, spread through explosive word of mouth.

Cryptocurrencies are fast swapping their shady past for respectability.

By BRIAN WYNNE and SUE MAYER When the «green» argument was still struggling for respectability, established scientists used to assert confidently that practices such as dumping waste in the sea or allowing radioactive emissions were «safe».

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).