respectability

In modern capitalist societies, an occupation associated with high income and the symbols that money can buy, like a suburban single-family home or an annual summer vacation, creates an aura of respectability and even virtue.

Southgate has given England credibility and respectability, rehabilitating them as a global force.

Levine helped secure the Enquirer some mainstream respectability, thanks to a series of scoops on John Edwards, a Democrat who was at one point a serious contender in the 2008 presidential race.

The significance of Michigan Central’s rebirth is not lost on Mayor Mike Duggan, whose administration has guided Detroit back to respectability since the city’s 2014 exit from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

The French trial comes as Assad has been regaining an aura of international respectability, starting to shed his long-time status as a pariah that flowed from the violence unleashed on his opponents.