Sentences with word «respectability»

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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.

The film avoids the Lawrentian ring of her sexual escapades, and part of its appeal lies in Katherine's laying waste to the pretenses of respectability as a 21st - century adolescent might.

However, it was only last month that the BNP gained a veneer of respectability by taking its first seat on the London Assembly.

Also, what you are engaging in here is akin to what is known as respectability politics in the civil rights movements.

Once considered fringe science, geoengineering gained respectability with an essay two years ago by chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who is something of an environmentalist hero — it was his Nobel Prize — winning work on the ozone hole that led to the ban on Freon and other ozone - destroying chemicals.

The director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers talks to Jason Solomons about comedy, gaining an air of respectability with age and the making of his horror classic, An American Werewolf in London

Expect Seattle to climb back toward respectability.

And living like Jesus doesn't mean we live in some culturally located Victorian ideal of middle class social respectability.

Having become woefully outgunned by the competition in the early 2000s, the 2006 Civic Si coupe brought respectability back to the sporty Civic.

So this season I'm paying closer attention to what the candidates say about their faith and what they have said in the past that they may have decided to play down in the quest for mainstream respectability.

Truck stops gained increased respectability and patronage of local residents which resulted in an 18 % increase in revenue.

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.

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.

Some of the restrictions were based on respectability and culture.

«Vincent Gentile will, and can, bring respectability back to Staten Island.»

After an unsuccessful bid at respectability with his tepid war film The Great Raid (2005), director John Dahl returns to what he does best: amusingly vicious little films noir.

The advantages of an association for us at Fleet Street Law has been shared practice management support, referral of files, strategic cooperation on a limited basis, actualizing economies of scale for some generic fixed costs, and a modicum of added respectability from our peers and clients.

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.

I'm actually more interested in discussing the Spurs» path to back court respectability next year.

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.

Once regarded as a venue only for losers and the truly desperate, online dating has gained respectability through all walks of society.

Defense ensures short - term respectability.

Mormonism: 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.

As long as theology is a university discipline seeking respectability in that context, it is hard to see how it can be greened very far.

But if the new respectability enjoyed by the Sunday school only reflects a national desire to retreat to comfortable forms that were part of a less risky past, then we are called to espouse a new cause — the liberation of the Sunday school.

When Kumar organized a U.S. congressional delegation to meet Modi in 2013, it was a turning point in the future prime minister's efforts to gain international respectability.

Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor.

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

After a dismal start to the year, the Public moved towards respectability with a few winning weeks near the end of the season.

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.

It confers respectability on the White House's environmental policies through a constant presence on television news shows and on the newspaper opinion pages.

The greater respectability of capital controls is one of the most important trends in global finance today.

In both England and America, Victorian preachers, novelists, poets, and statesmen alike struggled hard to maintain a national ethic of private domesticity and public respectability without the church and chapel in which that ethic was born.

How do we avoid being lured into a veneer of respectability that neuters the gospel we were ordained to bear awkwardly and pointedly?

The ultimate goal of an Academagician seems to be respectability within the academic community, and to create a sense of dependency among their followers who feel that they can not hope to understand Scripture and theology without the help of the professionally - trained academic scholar.

It turns out that many voters find respectability to be overrated.

In our reach for cultural respectability and power, we oldline Protestants have acquiesced in the golden - calf vision of Christendom, becoming warp and woof of the reigning political and social fabric rather than becoming weavers of a new kingdom community.

But he credits Kendall with helping to give renewed respectability to the study of ancient Nubia, which European and American scholars once treated as little more than a footnote to the study of ancient Egypt.