Surgeons didn't have a problem with respectability anymore they had become gods.

Effective collaboration between the United Nations and the Court remains of critical importance as the Court continues to gain credibility and respectability.

There is one thing, however, that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an interesting place, as well as ensure a return to the international limelight Turkey s admission as a full member.

Indeed, at a time when restricting access to short term international funds has acquired intellectual respectability, the government s reluctance to enforce curbs has been puzzling. The International Monetary Fund, which now supports selective imposition of capital controls, seems unconcerned the rupee, its annual review concludes, is fairly valued.

Developing countries are also at fault. Too many policymakers still believe that externally imposed opening to international capital flows was the main culprit behind the financial crises of the 1990 s a view that unfortunately is lent some intellectual respectability by a small number of left leaning academics.

Along with their political clout, unions intellectual respectability is also experiencing a renaissance. After decades of vilification by economists for raising unemployment and strangling growth, the union movement is now receiving backing from thought leaders such as Paul Krugman, who argues that stronger unions are needed to counter globalization s worst excesses.

But the reasons for her rise are not entirely salubrious. Whatever the merits and they are considerable of her arguments against the bigotry of Islamic or African customs, especially those concerning the treatment of women, she lent respectability to bigotry of a different kind the native resentment of foreigners, and Muslims in particular.