bona fides

Leaving aside the stereotypes that CBS’s audience is old and Vice’s is young, both companies have been playing up their international bona fides lately.

Just ask Shipley, a YouTube detective of sorts who tracks down and exposes people who masquerade as former commandos or otherwise exaggerate their military bona fides.

The state historically was known as a coal ash capital, a place where lawmakers touted their pro-business bona fides by denouncing regulations, and Georgia Power had a track record of delaying or blocking efforts to regulate pollution.

Strickland and her two partners all came from similar backgrounds, with extensive scientific experience but limited business bona fides.

Despite his literary bona fides, Ovbiagele didn’t do any writing until he’d left banking.

Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.

The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.”

A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a bona fide superhero.

Stephen Hawking is not only a bona fide genius, but also one of the most resilient men on the planet.

By the time the CFDA awards rolled round in early 1994, Moss was a bona fide star.

Nor can other creditors through filing objections to a claim prevent a bona fide claimant from voting.

The fact that you are here tells me that the wireless you got on the ship was not only bona fide but important.

Such relief was to be granted with due consideration and the bona fide intention of recovering.

It was an instantaneous apparition of absolute bodily substance, which carried its own warrant of complete bona fides.

If we leave Philippeville in the evening, we find ourselves next morning in the handsome roadstead of Bona.