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Example sentences for "this respect"

  • It may sound strange, but for all who know War in this respect it is a fact beyond doubt, that much more strength of will is required to make an important decision in Strategy than in tactics.

  • Now in our days there is hardly any other means of educating the spirit of a people in this respect, except by War, and that too under bold Generals.

  • Puysegur, the celebrated Quartermaster-General of the famous Luxemburg, used to say that he had very little confidence in himself in this respect at first, because if he had to fetch the parole from a distance he always lost his way.

  • The mind of Europe in this respect is made up definitely and unshakably.

  • It interdicts every new exception in this respect.

  • In this respect, any blunder might prove disastrous; and in every statute for each society, for each of the human vessels which gather together and serve as a retinue of individual vessels, there are two capital errors.

  • If the President differed from the great majority of men in this respect, his eye was a defective one, and it was to assist his vision that these glasses were made.

  • I found the natives generally as much at a loss in this respect as myself.

  • The negroes are totally different in this respect; the heat of midday has very little effect on them, and they dislike the cold nights on the river.

  • An essential element of strength in this respect is his acquaintance with men and things in every part of his empire.

  • It is a great pleasure to note that since the war both of the political parties have greatly improved in this respect, and that the standard of diplomatic appointments has become much higher.

  • In this respect, Time (as my Lord Bacon says) is the greatest of all innovators.

  • In this respect he was nearly a hundred and fifty years before his age, and the London importers continued to conduct their shipping business in the crowded tideway of the Thames down even to the beginning of the present century.

  • Indeed, their superiority in this respect is supposed to have been the principal cause of William's victory over Harold; for the men of both armies were equal in point of bravery.

  • The reader will not have forgotten the charges made against him, in this respect, in an earlier part of this volume by Lt.

  • All the testimonies of the time, but his own, show that, in this respect, he wandered very widely from the truth.

  • His men were well mounted; in this respect, if inferior in numbers, they had a manifest advantage over the British.

  • In this respect, therefore, the species of the larger genera resemble varieties, more than do the species of the smaller genera.

  • Lapse of time is only so far important, and its importance in this respect is great, that it gives a better chance of beneficial variations arising and of their being selected, accumulated, and fixed.

  • In this respect enclosure of the land plays a part.

  • In this respect I look upon the application of the Freudian theories as a distinct and glaring danger to the individual, to the family and to the community.

  • We presume that what is true of adrenalin in this respect will be true of all drugs which increase blood pressure.

  • And in this respect it turns its back upon art, which is a breaking away from society and a return to pure nature.

  • Even Short seemed to change in this respect, and to mingle with his good-nature something of a desire to keep them in safe custody.

  • In this respect, indeed, she might have been regarded as little less than the equal of the celebrated Ninon De L'Enclos.

  • Fitting the pieces together gave me no clew in this respect, although it assured me that the words (if there were any) would be found all on one side, and connected in a proper manner, as written.

  • The rich, in this respect, had little advantage over the poor.

  • Their feeling of duty in this respect amounts to a sense of religious consecration.

  • So careful is he in this respect, that the relatives usually waive claim to most of the effects of deceased friends, reserving only particular objects.

  • His vivacity had indeed been damped; but even in this respect he was a more acceptable companion than formerly, since his seriousness was neither incommunicative nor sullen.

  • I had fondly imagined, that, in this respect, they were surpassed by none.

  • In this respect he supposed the condition of others, bound like himself to mercantile service, to resemble his own; yet every engagement was irksome, and every hour tedious in its lapse.

  • The nobles, equal to kings in power, would not show any inferiority in this respect, and wore not only their hair, but their beards, of an enormous length.

  • Now, England affords him small opportunity in this respect; to get himself into a scrape requires a good deal of persistence on the part of the young Englishman.

  • In this respect I must be a perfect nuisance to everybody about me.

  • It is very remarkable," said my friend the churchwarden, "how the Criterion retains its position in this respect.

  • In the course of the century, I am inclined to think that Germany will solve her difficulty in this respect by speaking English.

  • We have never had an offender in this respect; but if we had, there is no doubt that he would be taken to task pretty severely.

  • I am fully satisfied by this time of his being a worthy creature; but in this respect he certainly would not appear to have acted at all like a man of business.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this also; this argument; this book; this cause; this direction; this epoch; this essay; this extraordinary; this first; this good; this incident; this institution; this juncture; this meeting; this parish; this power; this practice; this prince; this quarter; this spirit; this spot; this state; this term; this very; white wool; writing history