They are now actually respectable professors at Michigan State University, but I can assure you, back in the day, we were not a respectable team.

Even respectable organizations choose to cover up this issue.

When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking.

You know, you find somebody who is respectable and has a lot of money.

'Agnostic,' retorted Aveling, was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive.

When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession a lot of us want to go into banking.

The key ratio of programme expenditure (including direct programme support from headquarters) to expenditures for management and administration', was a respectable 9 1.

Also, the financial efficiency of the organization improved, resulting in a respectable 9 1 ratio of programme delivery costs to staff support costs.

It was quite a different matter, however, when such criticism came in the guise of a rubber stamp decision of a respectable multilateral body.

A respectable consortium of writers refers to treaties of friendship, commerce and navigation (or establishment) as treaties which are not terminated as the result of armed conflict.

He asked them, My people, is my tribe more respectable to you than God whom you have completely ignored? My Lord certainly has full control over your deeds.

He asked them, My people, is my tribe more respectable to you than God whom you have completely ignored? My Lord certainly has full control over your deeds.

If the world were to spend money equally across all 169 UN targets, it would do about 7 of social good for each dollar spent. That is respectable, but we could do much better.

US productivity has been growing at a respectable pace for two decades. The problem is that productivity gains have not translated into commensurate wage increases for the typical worker or income growth for the typical family.

Thanks to German manufacturers, pianos were no longer restricted to aristocratic salons or the professional middle class, but began appearing in respectable working class homes. Thanks to Japanese car producers, American manufacturers learned to produce more efficiently and competitively.

We can also rehabilitate the technocrats who served under Saddam, so that they, too, have a chance to serve their country. Last but not least, we must provide loans to poor families to help them build a respectable life.

Xenophobic views, or the denial of genocide, are repellent, but do not necessarily result in such a threat. In most societies, including the US, the public expression of such opinions is limited by a rough consensus on what is socially respectable.

Three respectable, if uninspiring, former ministers vied for the position, but struggled to find a compelling message that connected the party of the left with modern Britain. Unsure of the right approach, they wavered somewhere between moderation and left wing nonsense.

Political leaders plead impotence, intellectuals dream up implausible global governance schemes, and the losers increasingly blame immigrants or imports. Talk about re empowering the nation state and respectable people run for cover, as if one has proposed reviving the plague.

Now I trained in medicine in India, and after that I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

These claims began to be made by respectable conservatives, and even some social democrats, in the 1990 s. They reacted against a rather smug liberal establishment that tended to dismiss all critical thought about immigration or non Western faiths and traditions as racism and bigotry.

Sumo, as a traditional spectacle, cannot survive without respectable patrons. But Japan s wealthiest people, such as entrepreneurs, medical doctors, and lawyers, are nowadays less willing or financially able to continue patronizing the sport, particularly since the collapse of Japan s asset bubble in the early 1990 s.

Geert Wilders Freedom Party wants to ban the Koran, halt Muslim immigration, and deprive delinquents with an immigrant background of Dutch citizenship. The new Proud of the Netherlands Movement, led by Rita Verdonk, the former Minister of Integration, promotes a somewhat more respectable version of this hard line.

Do not kill a respectable soul without a just cause. If anyone is wrongfully killed, we have given the heirs of that person the right (to demand satisfaction or to forgive). He must not exceed the law in having vengeance his victim shall also be assisted (by law).

Do not kill a respectable soul without a just cause. If anyone is wrongfully killed, we have given the heirs of that person the right (to demand satisfaction or to forgive). He must not exceed the law in having vengeance his victim shall also be assisted (by law).

Basically what we need to do is replace cells in those few areas of the brain that lose cells at a respectable rate, especially neurons, but we don't want to replace them any faster than that or not much faster anyway, because replacing them too fast would degrade cognitive function.

Instead, these respectable supporters have gradually been replaced over the years by a shady new class of rich Japanese, who have risen through loan sharking and other dubious businesses. As a result, some Sumo stables have become associated in one way or another with people running front companies for Yakuza organizations.

The collapse of China s credit bubble would likely cause annual GDP growth to drop to 1 2 , on average, for the subsequent four years, assuming a 2 annual decline in capital expenditure and a still respectable consumption growth rate of 3 5 . Consolidated public sector debt would rise to 100 of GDP.

Everyone knew that Kadima would win and form a coalition with the moderate left Labor party, which managed a respectable second place finish. As a result, some Kadima voters stayed home, while other potential supporters voted for Labor to strengthen its hand in pushing social and economic issues in Kadima led coalition.

In the long run, America s growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption one based on Americans vaunted capacity for creativity and innovation. Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.

When respectable British media such as Financial Times warn against a renewed European psychodrama and instead call for working toward a Europe of results, this should be regarded rather as a bad joke than a serious alternative. Neither by cajoling nor by beating can a donkey be turned into a racehorse, unless one is secretly satisfied with the donkey.

The fate of LiveJournal the most influential blogging platform in Russia, which is often used to express dissent and protest against the government is one unfortunate example. In less than three years, this popular online resource has been transformed from a respectable American start up to a shady Moscow based enterprise, co owned by the Kremlin s favorite oligarchs.

Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society. Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever OftForgiving, Most Merciful.

O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever OftForgiving, Most Merciful.

In fact, new data from the International Energy Agency show that, in 2014, global CO2 emissions did not rise, suggesting that efforts to mitigate climate change may already be having a more significant effect than previously thought. This is particularly notable because the recent pause in emissions growth, unlike the other three that have occurred in the last 40 years, occurred amid economic expansion at a respectable annual rate of 3 .