"lend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "State licensed," "government aid available": these phrases lend the school advertisements undeserved respectability.
- Free traders resent the fact that Mr. Krugman's arguments have lent intellectual respectability to old-fashioned protectionism.
- The newspaper published a series of articles in which Mann offered detailed analyses of the music, lending it respectability.
- What else did Mr. Carter do in the third world to lend respectability to these con men?
- Surprisingly thorough, when you considered that he had only been invited to lend respectability to a hearing whose conclusion Richard himself had decided before it even began.
- Regrettably, such sophism lends respectability to criminal, terrorist behavior by the mullahs.
- Republican support of Nixon merely lends respectability to his implementation of the Marxist programs described by Alsop.
- Their support lent respectability to the Sandinista cause and helped convince many that the rebels were no longer doctrinaire communists.
- It lends respectability to this grisly practice of abortions.
- She had hoped to lend the renegades enough respectability to enable a group of nations opposed to the UN boycott to speak their minds, at last.
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