Sentences with phrase «on respectability»

Based on respectability and reliability, down To Earth believes that if people know they'll be called out on outdated pictures and little white lies in their profiles, they'll be less likely to post them.

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On May 3, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (TSX: VRX) installed its new CEO, Joseph Papa, and began what is sure to be a long climb back to 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.

For example, there was the recognition, first off, that too many evangelicals (especially in the Methodist tradition) had made it all too easy for the liberal establishment to freeze them out on the grounds that they had not paid the going price for full academic respectability.

The importance of this quest for middle - class respectability based on merit rather than politics can not be overestimated in the new black conservatism.

The record is clear: aggressive anti-puritanism on sexual matters has long been integrated into the socially dominant notions of respectability.

Despite the tragic bloodshed, Catholics were able to grow in confidence and respectability, old anti-Catholic myths began to disappear, the lay apostolate was given a boost on the Home Front and the denominations began to work together.

The concept of religious freedom has philosophical respectability only through a hermeneutics of hope based on the eschatology of the kerygma and the resurrection.

As Christians, we should not passively stand on the side of respectability politics that suggests this rate of incarceration is necessary or acceptable.

It is true that he often heaped praise on those stately bastions of academic respectability.

A «Christmas on earth» made it possible to endure the all - out attacks of bourgeois respectability, the harsh whips of conventional morality, and damnation by the Christian God.

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 moment.

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.

This up - and - down franchise is counting on its new - look defense to lay the groundwork for a return to respectability.

After one loss last season, mindful of the long road to respectability, he went up to Tomlinson, who in his first three seasons has rushed for 4,564 yards on a team that has won 17 games, and told him, «I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure your career is not played in vain.»

It might take two leaps to get Purdue back to respectability, especially with a schedule that features six teams from last year's F / + top 40, but barring land mines, Purdue appears to be on the right course.

If you're still not enticed by the odds on a draw, hang on in there, as there is evidence to suggest that neither are capable of winning Monday's affair — Not only have Blackburn failed to win on their own patch for four games, Steve Kean's men are without a win in their last nine overall and are currently in free - fall, having gone from mid-table respectability to relegation candidates within the space of just two months.

Their goal is to crack down on the white collar professionals hiding behind a «veneer of respectability» as they knowingly assist organised criminals.

Why on earth would any responsible body agree to give such a product the respectability of mainstream advertising space?

On Sunday, the Buffalo News editorialized in favor of campaign finance reform, and asked Senate Republicans, including Buffalo Senator Mark Grisanti, to pass a comprehensive plan that puts «state government back on the path of respectability.&raquOn Sunday, the Buffalo News editorialized in favor of campaign finance reform, and asked Senate Republicans, including Buffalo Senator Mark Grisanti, to pass a comprehensive plan that puts «state government back on the path of respectability.&raquon the path of respectability.»

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).

• 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.

So, AFS decided to hire Drs. Joe Vinson and Bryan Burnham from the University of Scranton to rewrite the paper and put their own names on it to give it a sheen of respectability.

Brooks sees international dating today as being on the cusp of respectability — in much the same way online dating was in its early stages.

[2] In the Fortune interview, Brooks said that his goal was to improve the reputation of AnastasiaDate and the international online dating industry as a whole, saying that the industry is «on the cusp of respectability».

Variety's Owen Gleiberman said in his review, «Paul Schrader courts respectability and leaves it in the dust, getting stoned on excess.

In «First Reformed,» Paul Schrader courts respectability and leaves it in the dust, getting stoned on excess.

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.

Banned in several countries, The Last House on the Left had a hard road to critical respectability, even though it was explicitly based on an Oscar - winning Ingmar Bergman film.

Carlyle clues Barnum in to who she is, and he hatches a plan on the spot to tour her around America, sell tickets, and make bank — and, it's implied, gain some respectability that hanging out with society's misfits can't provide.

Slater (who's starring in yet another action pic, Soldiers of Fortune, opening on the same day) goes through his predictable paces in professional fashion, while Sutherland and Spall are seemingly on hand just to lend some respectability to the enterprise.

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.

It currently carries a 6.0 user rating on IMDb, which you might consider the edge of respectability for a film of its age.

Bigfoot is the scowling face of fascistic police oppression who's out to harsh Doc's mellow, while Doc is the incorrigible hippy - freak who wants nothing more than to play Hacky Sack on the hissing summer lawn of white - bread respectability.

Murray's following is less visible, largely because his views on these matters lost respectability in polite company after the publication of The Bell Curve.

During World War II, B.F. Skinner embarked on what he later called a «crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the fence intellectually, but eventually vindicated in a sort of middle - class respectability».

It hasn't reached the swan stage, but this is only its second year on the market, and it was quite a feat just making the changes that give the sport - utility vehicle more respectability for» 02.

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).

The XOOM Family Edition can be considered a desperate attempt on part of Motorola to bring some respectability to the XOOM sales figures which has never really taken off in a big way.

As more opportunities and respectability open up for both new and established writers, these rights that the Union are trying to hold on to are already in place through electronic self - publishing.

Major booksellers have been accused of lending a veneer of respectability to antisemitic and neo-Nazi books by featuring them for sale on their websites.

While the jury may be out on videogames achieving respectability in the United States, the UK government believes that they have reached that point, and is willing to dedicate National Archives to the medium.

-- Carolina Arts & Sciences The first critical review of Dial's art on paper... [and] Thornton Dial is an interesting case study about folk art and its respectability.

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.

A half - century on, few people would claim that architecture doesn't qualify, and thanks to Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal, contemporary ceramics carry the gloss of art - world respectability.

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.

If you were trying to create a parody non-profit board on whom the torpor of respectability hung heavy, Nigel's is hard to beat.

And then they put in a number (20 - 30 %) to give a gloss of scientific respectability on what is essentially a meaningless statement.