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Example sentences for: respectable

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On the surface, Russia's troubles seem like the sort of thing that happens even to respectable countries.
Having emigrated to the USA, he had discovered that the family monicker, however respectable in Appenzell, would never do in Pittsburgh.
Protectionism, by contrast, tends to impose widely spread costs but to confer benefits on concentrated interest groups, who therefore have a strong incentive to lobby for it--and to provide financial support for those who help make it seem intellectually respectable.
So a 1990 Bordeaux or Burgundy is likely to be first-rate if made by a respectable, even if unknown, winemaker.
But speed comes in a very respectable second, killing 13,000 Americans annually.