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Example sentences for "certain respects"

  • As my own observations disagree with their accounts in certain respects, I shall now give, in the form of a diary, a description of the important changes observed from day to day in a normal litter.

  • Alexander's descriptions are more detailed than those of Rawitz and Panse, and in certain respects Kishi's are even more thoroughgoing.

  • Evidently the dancer is exceptionally strong in certain respects, although it may be weak in others.

  • I shall first consider how, in certain respects, they are related to our minds; and then I shall consider how, in certain respects, they are related to physical objects.

  • While still retaining many of their local traits, their point of view had been approaching in certain respects that of the inhabitants of the East.

  • The truth is that the Democrats, under the lead of Jackson, were temporarily the national party, although they used their genuinely national standing to impose in certain respects a group of anti-national ideas on their country.

  • The large corporations and the unions occupy in certain respects a similar relation to the American political system.

  • No doubt their economic position was in certain respects precarious.

  • The perception of the two is followed by that different state of mind which constitutes the feeling of their agreement in certain respects, or of their disagreement in certain other respects.

  • Well, it is, sir, as you instituted the comparison, to be treated like money in certain respects.

  • I feel that the state of these persons follows a course in certain respects parallel to mine, but moving in an opposite direction, coming from elsewhere, and having other consequences.

  • Is the condition, in certain respects, of our public schools such as is pictured by the writer of the following, taken from the New York Herald of Feb.

  • The divorce had left my brother with half of a house and, in certain respects, half of a life.

  • In certain respects, I pitied her, and in others, I pitied the children.

  • Helping with the chores at home also gave me a sense of usefulness and made me glad that I was able to be productive in certain respects.

  • But in certain respects practice is preceding theory.

  • It will be apparent that while Buddhism has in certain respects a vigorous system of punishment for sin, yet its method of relief is such that the common people can gain only the most shallow and superficial views of salvation.

  • In certain respects, however, it is identical with the other forms inasmuch as it performs all of the eight biological tasks demanded by nature.

  • The Babylonian and Assyrian Shamash is in certain respects an independent deity with universal attributes, but retains also some of the physical characteristics of the sun.

  • While the two have in common the frank and independent employment of the supernatural for the bettering of human life, their conceptions and modes of procedure differ in certain respects, and they may be considered separately.

  • This seventh entity is, indeed, in certain respects no other than the double, or Guardian of the Threshold itself, and it lays a particular task upon the student.

  • Whatever of that world can be described, may be visualized by comparison with the world of the senses for although it is of a purely spiritual nature, it nevertheless resembles the physical world in certain respects.

  • This matter of self-cognition is, in certain respects, different in the higher worlds from what it is in the physical sense-world.

  • It should in certain respects be more rigid, since, apart from a few outstanding troubles, there are no permanent differences between the parts.

  • Buddhism is in certain respects an effort to find in morals a theory of the universe.

  • If it in certain respects involves an expense of force, it in others so heightens the entire vital energy, that the expense must be regarded as one of those fruitful investments which are inseparable from the very continuance of life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain articles; certain cells; certain characters; certain conditions; certain distances; certain extent; certain fishes; certain fixed; certain forms; certain individuals; certain knowledge; certain lands; certain measure; certain moments; certain persons; certain plants; certain point; certain relation; certain rules; certain sort; certain specified; certain standard; certainly will; considerable army; line abreast; slavery principles