Sentences with phrase «respectability as»

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

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.

He reconnects with Colin Farrell in «Dead Man Down» as Alphonse, a mobster struggling with respectability as he tries to keep his close - knit crew together from an enemy that's closer than he thinks.

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

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

The study, published online this week in the open - access journal PeerJ, brings the long - banished name back into scientific respectability as a genus coequal with Apatosaurus.

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.

Llandudno, trailing 5 - 0 from their first leg against IFK Goteborg, salvaged some respectability as Danny Hughes netted a consolation goal in a 2 - 1 second - leg defeat.

Nonetheless, its respectability as an important contemporary philosophical system seems established even as weaknesses and ambiguities continue to be explored.

Not exact matches

Respectability consisted of one's prestige as a correctly behaving, middle - class person, in contrast to supposedly disreputable people such as prostitutes.

Dating back to the mid-1950's, the term charm offensive is commonly referred to as a concentrated attempt to gain favor or respectability by conspicuously cooperative or obliging behavior.

As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage — and they don't even need to be involved in that conversation — straight people are doing a good enough job in that department (50 % divorce rate)... marriage is taking a hit in the respectability department... but it's not because of gay people.

Otherwise, they'd still be «doing it» (as some are)... Dangerous people under a veneer of respectability..

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

Here they appear as models of rectitude and respectability.

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.

But can the congregation put respectability in the second place as our Lord did when it is necessary to the saving of souls?

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

After all, wasn't it the future Pope who, as Cardinal Pacelli the Vatican Secretary of State, had negotiated the concordat of 1933 with the new Nazi regime in Germany, an act that gave this questionable new regime much international respectability?

By the 1960's, however, this movement had won respectability so thoroughly that it is sometimes regarded by the current crop of social action leaders as simply part of the Establishment.

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

And there is no reason for us to take a superior position regarding our ancestors in the faith, as if we ourselves did not suffer from limitations of perspective and from a keen ability to disguise our self - interest in moral respectability.

Indeed, to gain intellectual respectability, it is best to avoid discussing religion, especially if that discussion involves what we Methodists refer to as a «witness.»

This notion, «the principle of collegiality», appears to have a pedigree within Catholic theology and as such it lends a certain degree of respectability and intellectual clout to those clamouring for reform.

The events in Nuremberg not only help us to understand the spirit of the new Germany, but provide some grounds for expecting that the harsher undertones of the National Socialist movement will come to be muted as the NSDAP attains political respectability.

Part One of what used to be referred to as the Slot Machine Open before it gained a certain amount of respectability is a pretournament calcutta, which this year piled up a record pool of $ 380,000.

In four years he earned his degree in economics and urban studies, the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's best sub-6-foot player and a brief span of respectability for the Lions.

They see them as a sign of Japan's maturity as a modern state, a return to respectability after the dark years of militarism and an opportunity to show off their nation's talents.

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.

As a birthmother (and a grandmother,) I often feel that respectability and understanding are beyond my reach.

Top cop Sir Paul Stephenson, as no - one calls him, has developed a laughable post-resignation reputation as a tower of respectability.

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

The attacks will continue as the push for drug law reform gains greater prominence and respectability.

He says: «That was regarded as an extreme cause to start off with, but it proved to be my path to respectability.

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.

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».

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».

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

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

[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».

I believe they lost respectability for this one as the Rotten Tomatotoes bloggers and cinema score gave this movie a solid A. (as do I).

He's very likable as Barnum, even though the screenplay rarely characterizes the character as anything more than a nice guy who's still battling some «respectability» issues left over from a tough childhood.

Things sink to new lows when tired flatulence, forced colonic irrigation, and gay jokes are trotted out for laughs, throwing all semblance of respectability out the window, as the desperation overtakes the final half hour of this painfully unfunny comedy.

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.

The fact that consumption as opposed to production assumed a central role in identity construction and ensuring respectability, contributed significantly to the loss of the respectable status created / earned through being a worker during the pre-1980s.

These bastions of respectability are difficult opponents for the government to paint as the «usual suspects».

However, while the above developments can add some respectability to the device, it otherwise needs a bump in its specs to emerge as a serious challenger to the mainstream smartphone devices rather than remaining confined as a niche product.

His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears.

Now this is one of those pieces of news that need to be ingested with some salt though just to add some respectability to it, the model number does rhyme with those associated with other Asus tablets such as the Transformer Prime.