Sentences with phrase «respectability with»

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

First, stop instigating fights and lowering the respectability of comment threads and the commenters with immature ad - hock name calling and insults.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

In 19th century America, Christianity was identified with social respectability.

In his childhood he lived a leisurely life of ease and bourgeois respectability, with wealth and servants at his disposal.

Until the rise of liberation theologies, theology was more concerned with having intellectual respectability in the Academy than with forging an alliance with the oppressed or particular political or social attitudes and practices.

Who wants to wear ties when you can, with full respectability, wear open - neck shirts?

«But the reality is many churches are more concerned with respectability.»

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?

Consequently, it also has had the tendency to lose contact with the actual condition of the masses and become an enclave of «respectability,» alienated and threatened by the chaotic conditions of the impoverished blacks, especially in the northern city.

TK is excellent at riding shotgun with Giroux and Couturier, because those guys create a ton of space for him, but he can't carry Filppula and Simmonds to possession respectability, and neither of those guys can keep up with him.

I really like the young core and hope that a free agent or two along with this upcoming draft pick, can get us back in the path of respectability

The Orioles» 34 — 23 finish to the 2010 season, combined with a glut of young pitching talent, heralded a breakthrough year — or at least respectability.

They cheered Austin, who was acquired with guard Charles Smith from the Miami Heat in a trade for guard Brent Barry two days earlier, mainly because they thought he could help push their dreadful Clips toward respectability.

SMU has brought its admission standards for athletes into line with those for the rest of the university, and the Mustangs» graduation rate has achieved respectability.

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.

Alvin Gentry was a hot candidate early, but the New Orleans Pelicans dealt with injuries and made a brief run toward respectability once Jrue Holiday became available.

Marvin Lewis, Cincinnati Bengals --- A fixture with this team and in this city for 14 years, he has brought both respectability, lifting this franchise from the floor to competitive and sometimes entertaining status.

Liverpool legends took a 4 - 0 lead against Real Madrid, with Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen both scoring, before Los Merengues scored thrice in the last ten minutes to lend the scoreline a level of respectability in this charity friendly at Anfield Continue reading →

In agreement with the Tory scholar Maurice Cowling, «The Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher had used a radical rhetoric to give intellectual respectability to what the Conservative Party had always wanted.»

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.

A rehabilitated Irwin has now pivoted into theoretical physics, a field in which fantastical claims with scant supporting evidence can still boast a degree of respectability.

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.

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.

Again, great post-it's nice to see someone slam dunk with nothing but science and respectability.

Luca Guadagnino's wonderful and erotic love story Call Me by Your Name is in there with solid recognitions for best film and best director, but again this film might have to content itself with what looks like, in footballing terms, mid-table respectability.

Another, less flashy but equally impressive number finds Charity missing Barnum while he's off touring Europe with his new star (and respectability insurance policy) Jenny Lind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Courting the respectability of a career profile, Andre agrees to spend time — a lot of time, preposterously — with a New York Times journalist, played with slippery sincerity by Rosario Dawson.

With the notably entertaining exceptions of the hyperactive Scott and the kooky Haningan, the entire cast seems to have phoned in their parts, embarrassed to still be tethered to this pubescent rubbish now that so many of them are trying (and for the most part failing) to move up a rung or two in respectability.

[22] These young people who are very much aware of the fact that they are unable to earn respectability through their current social identity, try to deal with the rejection and exclusion they are subject to by immediately gratifying their desires.

The 2015 Audi A3 e-tron combines laid - back, no - hassle convenience with a deeply thoughtful approach to environmental respectability.

With its poised handling and contemporary design, the LaCrosse does a really nice job of appealing to the younger demographic, without alienating the traditional buyer who likes its quiet respectability.

About its OS, the PlayBook 4G is exactly identical with its stable mates by running the PlayBook OS 2.0 that had brought some degree of respectability to the tablet.

When a refrigerator (along with the television) finally made its way into our cozy apartment, we knew we had finally climbed that last rung to middle - class respectability.

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.

So with this much change in such a short amount — and the widely acknowledged respectability that a growing number of authors have brought to the process — why is self - publishing still mentioned with an apologetic air?

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.

With the increasing respectability of self - publishing, anyone can put themselves out there now, whether their book is of a publishable standard or not, and it seems a lot of writers don't particularly care — they're just happy to be published, however it happens.

Small press and epublishers offer the best of both worlds — free editing, cover, etc., as well as a platform of respectability you won't have self - published or subsidy published, and there is a chance of being reviewed that is rarely possible with self / subsidy.

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).

Although self - publishing turned the corner in terms of respectability, there is still a stigma attached with a self - published book.

Artist Tracey Emin, whose journey from controversy to respectability has been marked with a CBE, said receiving the honour felt like being «pushed in at the deep end».