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It won't do for a respectable bank gentleman like you, to be seen speaking to him publicly, you know. '

When Hunter noticed how well cared for and well dressed he was, he thought the child must belong to well-to-do, respectable parents.

Start-up times on the two were respectable for a Windows PC: ready to go from cold start in just over a minute.

The willingness of these respectable people to help Eliza was good for her case.

It never occurred to me that such a respectable politician could be a paedophile.

He thought, "If a respectable suitor comes and asks for her hand in marriage, I will give her to him. "

The range is all based around diesel engines from a respectable 84 PS up to a whopping 174 PS which really is a flying machine.

indeed, they might have come from America's Democratic Party, or even from the op-ed pages of a respectable business daily.

If you're looking ways to help those in need this Veteran's Day, you might check out a respectable charity like the Fisher House Foundation.

I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior.

Elizabeth: Sir, I am not the sort of female to torment a respectable man. Please understand me. I cannot accept you.

Haven't I brought you up to be respectable? And how can you keep it up without my money and my influence and Lizzie's friends?

Compared to the career of a dental physician, already such a respectable profession, I felt that I was no more than a shop worker.

Nokia's Symbian OS is still in a respectable second place with 34% of requests, but then the numbers dip down quite a bit.

The name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nickname as any other in use in the school.

A beer-bellied historian and a lover of Cicero, Mr De Wever is a respectable sort of separatist.

Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was.

The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother.

Silver Fangs : Respectable, traditionalists to a fault, but a bit stiff and overbearing sometimes. Still, one's king is one's king.

For having well-educated experience , coming from a respectable family and especially being a reliable man , trust what he said please .

The frank shrewdness in her eyes, and her fine tone of voice were guarantees that she was respectable at the table.

Actually she was neither, but she could pretend to be. It made her feel more respectable and ladylike .

It is not until the most respectable people is about to leave that the other people can say goodbye.

But she did not yield to the temptation. Besides being an upright and respectable woman she was also a very sensible one.

More respectable colonists began to arrive, but growth continued to be precarious.

With these suggestions, your child can grow up to be a respectable and successful adult that you can be proud of.

They always looked respectable although they did not always have enough proper food to eat.

You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of any body.

It is respectable to be one of the high-ups in the government, but it is no good trying to reach the goal by all means.

He predicts that China will likely grow at a very respectable 8 per cent a year annually for a decade at least.

If my uncle was certainly a miser, he was one of that thorough breed that goes near to make the vice respectable.

But each generation grows up into respectable parents, ready to be terrified to death of the next one.

She did not quite hate him, but did not wish to marry him, even to remain respectable.

And if that view becomes more respectable, so too does a defensive Muslim reaction, which is often tinged with geopolitical grievance.

back to coax a respectable sum of money out of an aged woman who happens also to be my mother.

It has suddenly become respectable to ask the question: what would happen if the euro broke up?

Bill Gates is now a respectable businessman and philanthropist, and is no longer a computer whiz kid.

Steven: I can't wait to see him. He is such a lovely and respectable professor.

Second, no respectable Chinese executive would be caught dead without a wristwatch, and I would look foolish without one.

There was no room in his system for 'practical, ' non-research-basedschools, even if they happened to provide respectable teaching.

Her intelligence was respectable and she could listen cleverly when he discussed business matters or affairs of state with her.

By the time I decided to move to Asia, I had saved a respectable amount of money.

Just a few decades back, premarital sex was looked down upon by respectable families.

She had a graduate degree from a good university, held a respectable job in marketing, and was reasonably attractive.

The reserved but articulate teacher failed to realise that the liberation movement picked him to provide a respectable image.

Our cousin Mr Collins is not the cleverest of men, perhaps, but he is respectable.

Every city of respectable size boasts a Circle of Magi shop, and every one of these shops is run by a Tranquil proprietor.

That's very respectable, but I could never live with my parents. I usually only see them at our Christmas celebration-and that's enough!

Elinor saw and pitied her for the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable.

Fun, engaging gameplay; great sense of humor; lengthy quest with a respectable amount of replay value.

The would-be agent should be a respectable and experienced businessman with long-term established position and distinguished reputation.

Rosneft wants to transform itself into a respectable global oil firm, using its relationship with BP as a stepping-stone.

The whole notion of chivalry was about dressing it up to make it respectable.

HSBC made $1. 6bn, respectable enough but flat on the previous two years and less than an eighth of the global take on an underlying basis.

A beer-bellied historian and a lover of Cicero, Mr De Wever is a respectable a sort of separatist.

Its invitation to me gave a signal to the sociology profession that the rational choice approach was a respectable theoretical paradigm.

Carl, who has a computer sciences degree, was "inspired" to advertise his family "by his desire to make a respectable living. "

THERE was a time in the late 17th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar.

I hear your aunt likes travel, music, clothes and fine food. --- Oh, yeah, and music may have been much the most respectable of her tastes.

A prime example was the technology sector where, at the time, the ten-year average annual return was a respectable 6.

Initial sales seem respectable, but will have to accelerate to get Microsoft back in a game it once led.

You know something, John? Mr Harris is the most respectable person I knew.

He left a respectable amount of work and a stack of unpublished manuscripts made more marketable by the fact of his death.

The net does a quite respectable job, in our opinion, of recognizing code -- we would love to hear how it does on your data vectors.

but, by giving her an education, he hoped to be supplying the means of respectable subsistence hereafter.

As long as you have tried the utmost of your heart and strength, you can be ordinary but honorable, broke but respectable.

But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.

Alan was always in trouble with the police when he was young but he's now a respectable married man.

While the economy grew at a respectable rate for much of this decade, hiring did not.

First, growth for three decades has widened entrepreneurship, and made the pursuit of money-making respectable.

But it is also because the respectable end of the business seems to lack what Yorkshire folk call "bottom" .

'She said respectable people shouldn't have anything to do with them, ' she continued, but Lily shook her off impatiently.

These respectable teachers and lovable children also remind me of a Chinese education film Not One Less.

We have much pleasure In state that they are a small but highly respectable firm , and a very old and valued customer of ours .

The former wild man of rock has reinvented himself as a respectable family man .

Frankly, the only respectable reaction by our current Treasury secretary is to fall on his sword.

It's my pleasure to be here to meet you and your respectable parents who are interested in the program.

All the respectable inhabitants and well-to-do fellow-natives of the town were against Phillotson to a man.

His smoking tea went hissing over the "hot coppers" of that respectable veteran .

My dad interferes less in my life when I pretend to be an upstanding young citizen with a respectable job.

Therefore, a dress is not luxury but a dignified and solemn while the United States and Germany people are very respectable.

Now I would like to see you choose someone respectable as a new prime minister.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Six months after the little girl got her new blue dress, Gates Avenue was a tidy street of friendly homes where respectable families lived.

I am glad to find, however, from what you say, that he is a respectable young man, and one whose acquaintance will not be ineligible .

It's our greased honor to have the opportunity to work with your respectable company.

I am not the sort of female to torment a respectable man.

Chinese have always regarded people from far as respectable friends, sincerely believe that there must be worthy of learning from them.

That experiment had Cano and Lambert itching to release a beverage commercially. But they wanted it to be something respectable.

His father, a trucking company manager, raised Brad and his younger brother and sister to be respectable, church-going folk.

Race was once a bar to the clubs and drawing-rooms of respectable society. Now a black man is in the White House.

She wanted to make him a respectable member of high society, while he wanted to keep company with artists, intellectuals, and homosexuals.

Moreover, although GDP expanded by a respectable 2. 3% in the year to fourth quarter, most of that growth came from investment and exports.

With its wealth of resources, and young population, Indonesia should achieve respectable rates of growth for decades.

Over the past few years, lap-dancing clubs have proliferated, branding themselves as a respectable part of the leisure industry.

Each of these membranes was possible other universe. M-theory had unwittingly made the idea of parallel universes respectable again.

He went "respectable, " in smuggler parlance, and entered into a risky business venture on Kessel.

An earlier, smaller China fund, set up in 2004, has generated a respectable internal rate of return of 33%, however.

Many of these respectable immigrants had suffered at the hands of the police and government in the country they had fled.

We believed what he said, because he was well educated, come from a respectable family and what is more, he is reliable.

You can even track down a suspect using a phone tap, an essential tool of any respectable 70s private eye or police detective.

Besides being an upright and respectable woman she was also a very sensible one.

American journalists, I realised, regard themselves as members of a respectable profession - like lawyers or bankers.

Outwardly , they may appear to be nice , respectable, law- abiding , middle- class people, and perhaps they normally are .

Usually portrayed as kindly, respectable old men, they see to it that the domains under their protection run smoothly.

Old Tong Bao himself was a respectable person; both Ah Si, his elder son, and his daughter-in-law were industrious and frugal.

At least, it can demonstrably make lots and lots and lots of money, which passes for respectable these days.

OK, it's not exactly Olympic sized, but for a hotel this size in a city centre location it was very respectable.

Nor is China, an economy that is at least expected to grow by a respectable 6-8 per cent this year, immune from heart-stopping statistics.

The attractive price and a respectable technical content are well-combined for pleasant picture taking.

This code runs in a respectable time, but a couple of the test assertions fail.

One of the dead, shot in the back by police, was retarded, and the other victims were generally respectable citizens.

It is well known that helping the poor is a traditional virtue among the Chinese people; charity is a respectable moral in mature society .

I just hope such a tragedy will never be repeated because every soul is respectable.

Not earthshaking but more than respectable, especially for an Internet business offering a free service supported only by ads.

China's respectable growth so far this year has come despite a deteriorating environment for its exports.

Perhaps he would like to be a math teacher? That was respectable.

Since then I have attempted to become respectable and act my age. So far, I reckon I'm doing rather better than the Italian prime minister.

You will escape from a disorderly, comfortless home into a wealthy, respectable one.

The next important step is to gain a respectable status for the prize itself.

Undoubtedly, respectable people like priests, elders, and Pharisees would have been horrified!

And when it's time to say good-bye, owners can bury their pets in a respectable pet cemetery ['semitic].

Finally, leave a respectable tip for your server at the end of the night.

How dare you talk to a respectable lady like this?

Respectable opinion is aghast. But respectable opinion has been consistently wrong lately, and the currency issue is no exception.

a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society.

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is" is one of George Bernard Shaw's epigrams.

She held her own against Grievous for a respectable stint, but was ultimately overpowered by the cyborg killer.

Sir George Staunton was placed next to a clergyman of respectable appearance, and wellbred, though plain demeanour.

In a word, she did everything that was respectable.

Without operations like mine, would be impossible for certain countries to conduct a respectable war.

No matter from respectable families or brothel, women themselves were part of Confucian society and were the product of Confucian culture.

These changes have made sex for hire more expensive. But luxe pricing has in turn helped make prostitution, well. . . somewhat respectable.

You're not going to deny that all my life, I've been hardworking, decent, respectable and straightforward.

Maggie: You see, I can't wear this. Chaperones are supposed to look stodgy and respectable.

Against many odds, they managed to put together a respectable team of their own.

No Pants Day is a day where everyone, be they students, respectable businessmen, or cherished community leaders, leave their pants behind.

How honor able and respectable a queen would be and how she would be praised to the skies and worshiped like stars!

The trend back then was to slash the budgets of cultural institutions, no matter how respectable. The moon had to go.

Repeatedly frustrated a young man came all the way in a remote small town to find out who has been attracted a respectable old gentleman.

Yet until recently - and as far back as the ancient Greeks - sexual self-control was a respectable objective in Western thought.

Dragon shows courageous, respectable and power, and is an emblem of supreme ruler.

An old man, a most respectable-looking valet, was sitting on the box with the driver.

We have on hand all the documents of the project including the Feasibility Study from a respectable company.

Respectable Madam Chairperson, Representatives of the Conference, Ladies and.

and respectable scientific studies pointed toward the health benefits of eating more plant-based foods and fewer meat-based foods.

They work legally, and are respectable, those who reap where one has not sown are the rubbish.

Meanwhile respectable newspapers carried shipping news, reports of royal visits and summaries of Parliamentary business.

He was always in neat dress with his hair carefully combed and gentle, respectable manner.

He was economical, and had saved money; he owned and occupied a very comfortable house on a respectable street.

No respectable woman would dream of entering what was strictly a "man's world" .

Nobody expected a respectable 65 year - old man to be a killer .

At the same time, the Greenlandic authorities are making clear their determination to be respectable global citizens.

After considering her options and prospects, she is now a lecturer in a local college and earns a much more respectable salary.

Where the women are respected and respectable, there resides the Goddess of our well-being.

Here, everything is about saving face, and the under-manned Chinese did that with a respectable showing.

BUYER shall manage the consignment stock with the care proper to a respectable businessman.

After the defeat of the Empire, Han was branded as "respectable" by the rogues and pirates he had once done business with.

At the level of fantasy, Gates is a small-time, subversive hooligan who has taken over and dressed himself up as the respectable chairman.

Hayek's views became more respectable, informing the liberalising, privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.

a man , to hold his position , must have a dignified manner , a clean record , a respectable home anchorage.

This would a respectable enough growth rate at the best of times.

doing the indignant : a girl of good family like me , respectable character.

After all, here were two people, born into the same class and era and charged with the same passion: making cosmetics respectable.

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

To my most respectable teacher: You sacrificed your own free time to give us extra lessons when you knew we had to take an examination.

She was under a respectable roof, and among kind, though rough people.

It is indecent and filthy for a respectable girl to know anything of the marital relation.

I don't think it proper to call a respectable professor "Old Kobul" .

While most people working in casinos are honest and respectable, the industry also includes a certain sleaze factor that can be annoying.

Lando was the first of the two friends to go "respectable, " a fate worse than death to some smugglers.

Besides being an upright and respectable woman Mrs. Baroda was also a very sensible one.

Unhappy with engineering, I tried computer science, another respectable and profitable career path. Same results.

Although many exams lack rigour, more children are getting respectable grades and going on to universities.

Smith is a respectable professor, so all his students are respectful to him.

Secretly you will pursue pleasure and openly you will be forced by the culture in which you live to conform to the respectable.

He was adopted into a respectable family.

padauk furniture, respectaBle and elegant, with an imperial air.

The technological frontier is advancing, which should allow respectable growth in advanced economies.

Both sides are committed to operating publicity programs in a decent and respectable manner.

You will, perhaps, think the building old and dark at first; though it is a respectable house: the next best in the neighbourhood.

Whereas in America journalism is a respectable, even venerated profession, in Britain it has always been regarded as grubby.

They're a very respectable family. What do you think, Miss Elliot?

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter.

What respectable New York woman would be caught dead wearing this?

The government's generally respectable policies, backed by a plump budget, are often defeated by weaknesses in the civil service.

His property here, his place, his house, everything is in such respectable and excellent condition!

Over time, regulation of the capital account might become as respectable as banking regulation.

With my experience and Education of Canada and India in Engineering, will I get any job with some respectable salary in India?

After all, its assertion by the authority of respectable teachers is sufficient evidence to begin with.

If earlier the night had belonged to reprobates, now respectable people became accustomed to exploiting the hours of darkness.

Suspended below the cockpit ball is a retractable light turbo laser that provides the tank with respectable firepower.

It can happen, you have to wait little bit, ? of time. India and Indian Big hauses like TATA are more respectable then China's.

For an emerging economy, China has a respectable record against inflation.

Qi Bashi was a respectable master in traditional Chinese painting.

You still have time to prepare. You could work your way to a respectable bathing suit body.

He prefers shares of Microsoft, Exxon Mobil and J& J, given their respectable dividends and ability to better handle a downturn.

The numbers produced were certainly respectable, but we felt more could be eked from the powerful pony car.

Sarah Conlon wanted their life to be respectable, holy, and quiet.

"I would not refuse, " said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man who would pay me, but why do you not go to the inn? "

A respectable, dignified college professor has been unexpectedly under suspicion of involving hire someone to hurt Fang Zhouzi.

Compact respectable living meaning, let all human beings share the space of aesthetic house life, we endlessly work hard.

Joost is also ignoring the two business models seen as the most respectable alternatives to advertising.

With others farewell, if the other side is a respectable, the status of the Korean people often repeatedly bowed to March 5 times.

almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier , have better marriages and have more respectable occupations.

A such beautiful pitiable but respectable woman who thanks Alexandre Fils Dumas having molded Dame aux Camellia.

From 1993 to 2006, the U. S. saw a respectable 24% increase in the number of science and engineering Ph. D. 's graduated each year.

The idea that governments should put something aside for a rainy day has a long and respectable history.

Catherine must choose between her soul mate, Heathcliff, who lacks status and education, and the far more respectable Edgar.

The connection was certainly a respectable one and probably gained her consideration among her friends.

Fakers lose their class and play dirty. Kobe is a liar and will never be a respectable player!

They need cars, respectable mates, respectable jobs, respectable diploma and homes.

No respectable girl would associate with a man like him.

It's incumbent on the trade union organization to give the respectable labor for the laborers.

We'll have to keep our homes clean, brush our hair and put on respectable clothing. And what about home office productivity?

These will promote the vehicle to collect the value consumedly, showing the car owner's highly respectable body and personal statuses.

He is generally reputed to be a respectable person.

He is not respectable in the company.

Leaders who spew such venom, should be banned from every respectable forum on the planet.

Yet in recent years more school-leavers holding respectable qualifications have signed up.

He really can lead to obtain the winning games, band to solve their economic difficulties, and become a respectable rock?

This section about insects is written by a respectable specialist .

ENTERPRISE PROSPECT: Being most respectable and creative leader in the dressing world.

The staff of Xuemei company consists of respectable professionals, 35% of them being engineer and advanced technician.

The envelopes used will be conventional, respectable-looking window envelopes.

Note: I do not own this song, all the copyrights belong to their respectable owners.

Mitt Romney, considered an early front-runner for the nomination, came a respectable second. Sarah Palin got 3%.

He was altogether above the respectable average; quite another affair.

No loud, boisterous behavior but being utterly respectable and respectful.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable , even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

They're not classy like Dracula and Frankenstein, who can trace their lineage back to respectable 19th century novels.

Without a survey report issued by a respectable public surveyor to support your claim, we can't take your claim into consideration.

Meanwhile, Luther has also been renewed, after earning a respectable audience over its six-part run.

I often use Urbandictionary to research slang uses of otherwise staid and respectable words.

"Outside the Law" is a respectable action film, which turns the spotlight on a disturbing episode of history.

Playing Varsity sports in high school is respectable, but many students play sports in high school.

Although official unemployment hovers between a respectable 4-5%, these figures measure less than one-tenth of the Chinese workforce.

Colleagues intent on achieving the worst possible mileage during our preview drives bottomed out at a still respectable 29 mpg - wow.

In fact they needed to be rich themselves, and respectable.

Using my intelligence and precision work to make you highly respectable also free and easy .

As a genre it has become quire respectable in recent years.

You quit that respectable, well-paid job for this unpromising one? What has come over you?

Gradually the crude early selling methods changed and became more respectable too.

"I can let in this respectable old woman, " thought Snow-white; "she will not harm me. "

He wanted to become a writer, but his father didn't think it was a respectable.

Good morning, respectable judges, teachers.

They are highly respectable men of good intention and good conduct.

Mr Auletta does a respectable job of reviewing the media companies' predicaments.

This all-permissiveness has become respectable and accepted as the norm of life.

But for the vast majority ofwomen who aspired to respectable life, it was essential.