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Last but not least, we must provide loans to poor families to help them build a respectable life.
Talk about re-empowering the nation-state and respectable people run for cover, as if one has proposed reviving the plague.
The “front” would be a collection of respectable, often unsuspecting academics and cultural and sports figures; the “rear” would be controlled by the KGB.
Thus, social scientists made the everyday lives of ordinary people respectable, while refusing to privilege certain animals over certain - typically disabled or unwanted - humans.
Everyone knew that Kadima would win and form a coalition with the moderate left Labor party, which managed a respectable second-place finish.
China, in comparison, now looks like a respectable partner.
I once witnessed a group of highly respectable Singaporeans letting go of themselves in an evangelical church service.
But I will not forgo sharing my opinion of this monthly, to which, during the 1974-1975 Portuguese revolution, I submitted one of my first dispatches, but which today retains nothing of Le Monde except shareholders, nothing diplomatic except the word, and nothing respectable except the memory of its distant founders.
Such an approach has vaulted Cape Verde off the bottom of development indices into the respectable ranks of middle-income countries within a decade.
Last year, however, the world economy grew by a respectable 3%.
Similarly, hacking US political organizations in an effort to disrupt the American democratic process arguably qualifies as behavior all respectable countries should abhor.
Given that China’s GDP growth rate remains respectable relative to the rest of the world, the need to emphasize structural reform is clear.
Businessmen can as well become honest and respectable.
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%.
Media accounts were vague, with the respectable story pointing to the “rekindling of inflation fears,” which, in fact, was not news.
The bankruptcy of these two respectable but now out-moded positions opens the door for a new populism, based on an anti-globalization groundswell.
Until now, it has been denied an effective national political role, because it has been quarantined by respectable conservative parties, who enforced a generally effective taboo against dealing with the Front.
They come to inhabit symbolically gated communities in which only one type of public conversation is deemed decent, respectable, and acceptable.
From 1999 to 2009, labor productivity had risen by a respectable 5.8% per year in large firms with 500 or more employees.
Nor could Netanyahu find any respectable security experts to vouch for his return to power.
Respectable opponents of globalization avoid it in fear that they will be called racists or insensitive to the plight of the world's poorest.
The US federal budget deficit for 2001-2 was $159 billion, quite respectable (in percentage terms) by European standards.
One only needs to read online comments reacting to opinions expressed in perfectly respectable publications to see how much hostility exists in people’s minds.
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.
But 2% growth (a respectable rate for an advanced economy) would represent a major blow to Russia’s standing and Putin’s personal prestige, and could endanger domestic stability if jobs are lost in critical manufacturing sectors.
Sumo, as a traditional spectacle, cannot survive without respectable patrons.
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.
The point was not that he didn’t have the right to express his opinions, but that Bard College should not have lent its prestige to make the speaker look respectable.
Eurozone growth is respectable, and the PIGs account for only 6% of the eurozone’s GDP.
Sure enough, GDP growth from 2010 to 2012, though averaging a respectable 4%, turned out to have been driven by the post-crisis recovery and the further increase in oil prices to $100/barrel.
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