Sentences with phrase «respectability only»

Since professional embalming gained respectability only after the Civil War, the family most often prepared the body, subsequently placing it in the parlor or living room for viewing.

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

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I'm not the only one who has noted that the American newspapers — maybe because they have been local monopolies — are concerned more about respectability than their British peers.

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.

It has been supposed that only Western ideas have respectability.

And since the misleading notions in question not only seem so sensible, general, and familiar, but carry a penumbra of scientific respectability, we are often either unaware of them or wholly indisposed to question them.

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.

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.

A new coordinator and additional playmakers help the offense, but this club is still taking only baby steps back to respectability

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.

Far from ideas only providing intellectual respectability to what a political party has always thought, the infusion of new ideas has the potential effect of changing the language and, more interestingly, the content of preexisting concepts, ideas and principles.

PezCycling News has gained a higher profile and more respectability because it's the only English Web site with an actual Ph.D. and active sport scientist writing for it.

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

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.

With all of the buzz — both positive and extremely negative — surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook - only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out - of - print and author - held rights» books.

The only way to maintain the respectability that will lead to devoted readers is to make sure I produce a book that is worthy of my readers» time.»

Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a field, psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile respectability.

The inflow of institutional funds will not only add liquidity and respectability to the sector.