But the election commission reported a national voter turnout of about 20%, a respectable, if disputed, tally.

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On the other, Mr. Musharraf has been a respectable, if albeit far from perfect, ally in the aptly-named long war.

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Cameron, by comparison, took on a man, Coulson, who had been tarnished by association with criminality, and gave him a respectable (if serpentine) job, which by all accounts Coulson performed with aplomb.

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As a result, Austria's mainstream, respectable right has acquired a rare, if perhaps short-lived, ascendancy.

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"In the 1970s it became respectable to model the economy as if it was a perfectly functioning, self-regulating machine, " says Edmund Phelps, a Nobel Prize winning Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York.

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If you are an aspiring young journalist, there is a ladder you must climb to get published in a respectable newspaper.

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But even if macro concerns of excessive investor pessimism keep a lid on stock prices in the months ahead, dividend paying stocks offer respectable cash payouts that are close to as safe as bond yields.

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