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But to be the victim of a crime is obviously more respectable than being a criminal.
US productivity has been growing at a respectable pace for two decades.
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.
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.
A better response would be to increase dramatically research and development into low-carbon energy– an option that gained a respectable mid-placed ranking on our list.
During the decade before the uprisings erupted, the region’s economies attained respectable real annual GDP growth rates of around 4-5%.
Shortly after the referendum, I asked a former senior Tory official why no respectable politicians wanted to represent Remain voters.
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.
These claims began to be made by respectable conservatives, and even some social democrats, in the 1990’s.
If we limited artistic expression to subjects that are commonly regarded as socially respectable, we would soon be left with moralistic kitsch, just the kind of thing rulers of authoritarian states like to promote in public, while doing things that are far worse than most artists would like to imagine.
Nowadays, there is a respectable body of opinion that questions whether growth in productivity beyond the towering levels seen today is of any great value compared to the fearsome costs that are taken as given in most discussion.
Nonetheless, Keynes’s attempt surely sets a respectable precedent for economic future gazing.
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.
The profits are laundered via intricate webs of shell companies into foreign banks and property, emerging in the form of respectable homes and legitimate businesses.
A respectable outcome, but not an enormous amount.
Moreover, rapid growth in underlying productivity means that a respectable, if subnormal, recovery in terms of output growth is associated with falling employment and a rising unemployment rate.
But that theory meshed with suspicious ease with the perceived domestic political need for the president to appear “tough” – to avoid appearing “less of a hawk than your more respectable opponents,” as Bundy later put it.
The International Monetary Fund expects growth to reach a respectable 4.8% this year and 4.5% in 2015.
In most societies, including the US, the public expression of such opinions is limited by a rough consensus on what is socially respectable.
It was only in the eighteenth century that greed became morally respectable.
Only Botswana and Namibia achieved respectable scores, while the worst offenders were Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, Angola, Madagascar, and Nigeria.
That is respectable, but we could do much better.
It was economists and their ideas that made it respectable for policymakers and regulators to believe that what is good for Wall Street is good for Main Street.
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.
He played on Germany's well-known and respectable pacifist feelings.
The entire eurozone economy is growing at respectable, albeit unspectacular, rates.
Independent, too, of global opinion, which long ago eliminated him from the list of respectable politicians.
And since every economy is cyclical in nature, even some of China's most ardent boosters are left to wonder what resources the Party and government will have to draw on, should growth rates drop, even to a respectable 3-4%.
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.
Most remarkable of all, either scenario would be widely regarded as a stable and respectable outcome, compared to the most likely alternative: a minority government led by M5S.
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