Use "respectable" em uma frase
respectable frases de exemplo
respectable
1. Why do they open the shop, then? Later, I spent some time with Alice and our cousin Niki but I couldn't avoid the usual boredom: These two are married with children, respectable persons in society; they don't even bother to conceal their contempt for me
2. A respectable woman would never appear in public without her head covering
3. respectable and not necessarily wealthy, but at least able to foot the bill most times (chivalry, not money-grabbing tactics here, mind you) and have long-term goal planning in place for a
4. the end of the third day, India stood at a respectable 254/4
5. ‘Anyway, Mrs Stubbs is as respectable as they get and would never let her daughter get into debt
6. This is all getting to be rather respectable – entertaining the vicar
7. ‘Anna! Restrain yourself, this is a respectable office!’ laughed a voice from the staircase above us
8. Doubt very much it was a fashionable activity for a respectable young woman and, despite her experience, Bunty is very much a respectable young woman
9. managers and the outwardly respectable middle aged scions of
10. ’ Andy said in his best respectable scientist voice
11. ‘Really?’ Andy commented, patting himself on the back mentally as he admired the impression he was making – respectable and harmless
12. The usual tenants were respectable and the establishment itself enjoys a favorable reputation among the villagers
13. Sally’s house had been all in darkness not surprisingly – she keeps respectable hours
14. “What could interest a mutt like you in a respectable shop like this?” said the boy in front of her and pushed her
15. He's got a respectable business going restoring old machinery
16. The same most respectable and well-informed authors acquaint us, that when any person undertakes to work a new mine in Peru, he is universally looked upon as a man destined to bankruptcy and ruin, and is upon that account shunned and avoided by every body
17. "Maybe after they're converted and respectable," she said
18. The labour of some of the most respectable orders in the society is, like that of menial servants, unproductive of any value, and does not fix or realize itself in any permanent subject, or vendible commodity, which endures after that labour is past, and for which an equal quantity of labour could afterwards be procured
19. Standard were a shining example of what their culture had defined as being moral, hardworking individuals who had formed a respectable legal and holy matrimony that resulted in the much valued and desired undertaking of procreation and thus the continuation of their bloodline and species
20. In England, besides, a lease for life of forty shillings a-year value is a freehold, and entitles the lessee to a vote for a member of parliament ; and as a great part of the yeomanry have freeholds of this kind, the whole order becomes respectable to their landlords, on account of the political consideration which this gives them
21. In Scotland, besides, as no leasehold gives a vote for a member of parliament, the yeomanry are upon this account less respectable to their landlords than in England
22. They had complied to a tee with societal norms regarding growing up, getting hitched, securing the blood line, having respectable employment, living in the right neighborhood with the big house and yard, having the latest in autos and technological devices, wearing the right clothing and associating with the proper friends, taking their vacations to the proper places, and…you know how it goes, right?
23. But what is of much more importance than all of them, the yeomanry of England are rendered as secure , as independent, and as respectable, as law can make them
24. Lately I have earned a 'umble but honest wage in the stables of some rich and respectable gentlemen of this city
25. These causes seem to be, the general liberty of trade, which, notwithstanding some restraints, is at least equal, perhaps superior, to what it is in any other country ; the liberty of exporting, duty free, almost all sorts of goods which are the produce of domestic industry, to almost any foreign country; and what, perhaps, is of still greater importance, the unbounded liberty of transporting them from one part of our own country to any other, without being obliged to give any account to any public office, without being liable to question or examination of any kind; but, above all, that equal and impartial administration of justice, which renders the rights of the meanest British subject respectable to the greatest, and which, by securing to every man the fruits of his own industry, gives the greatest and most effectual encouragement to every sort of industry
26. That administration is necessarily composed of a council of merchants, a profession no doubt extremely respectable, but which in no country in the world carries along with it that sort of authority which naturally overawes the people, and without force commands their willing obedience
27. The building job took more than a month to complete and, when it was finished, my new cabin looked rather respectable
28. 'There have been since the world began,' says a very diligent and respectable author, the Marquis de Mirabeau, 'three great inventions which have principally given stability to political societies, independent of many other inventions which have enriched and adorned them
29. The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respectable, and upon several occasions, gained very considerable advantages over the Roman armies
30. The person subject to such jurisdiction is necessarily degraded by it, and, instead of being one of the most respectable, is rendered one of the meanest and most contemptible persons in the society
31. They feel themselves, each individually, more respectable, and more likely to obtain the respect of their lawful superiors, and they are, therefore, more disposed to respect those superiors
32. They have many of them become very learned, ingenious, and respectable men; but they have in general ceased to be very popular preachers
33. He never emerges so effectually from this obscurity, his conduct never excites so much the attention of any respectable society, as by his becoming the member of a small religious sect
34. There is scarce, perhaps, to be found anywhere in Europe, a more learned, decent, independent, and respectable set of men, than the greater part of the presbyterian clergy of Holland, Geneva, Switzerland, and Scotland
35. physical, that it really was just a matter of time before one of his affluent and very respectable
36. These estimations, I know very well, are not exact; but having been presented by so very respectable a body as approximations to the truth, they may, I apprehend, be considered as such
37. respectable part of town, even when the sun was down, lights still twinkled in apartment blocks and
38. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are
39. ‘Well, I guess I am considered to be outside the establishment of respectable physics,’ Louken said, without a hint of a smile
40. The plan for the second half was to play conservative and pass when they had to and try and grind out a respectable game
41. English people have no idea of the fearful enormities constantly practised in darkest Africa, and it is just as well that their eyes should be opened, so that they will be in a better position to judge the difficulties to be encountered in civilising these people, and why it seems impossible for them to be made respectable members of society
42. Her words, from my expert viewpoint, were quite respectable if repetitive
43. We lifted up the skirts of our dresses and made our way to the car that would be our carriage to get us to the church not on time but at a respectable time…On my time
44. Be honorable and respectable
45. I took a respectable gulp from the bottle and returned it to him
46. When I saw the stables, and the neat condition they were in, it was obvious he was a respectable man
47. George’s meager pile of chips had grown to a respectable mound when the club’s owner stopped by to check on the action
48. “New arrangements for transport by a respectable commercial carrier will need to be arranged
49. Thought my parents would be pleased I was going out with such a respectable person
50. I can't afford to have such things said of me, now that I'm in a respectable place and trying to be a lady