"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.