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Example sentences for "respect"

Lexicographically close words:
resourcefulness; resourceless; resources; respeck; respecks; respectabilities; respectability; respectable; respectably; respecte
  1. In making the clearance the squatter had no respect for State property, and the damage which he did in indiscriminate destruction of valuable timber by fire was not inconsiderable.

  2. Again, he hesitated openly to declare his views with respect to the relations with Rome.

  3. The Court decided that the stranger must be called upon to present his Papal credentials and the royal confirmation of his powers with respect to Spanish dominions, and with this object a magistrate was commissioned to wait upon him.

  4. Among themselves they are continually struggling to attain the respect and consideration accorded to the superior class, whilst their connexions and purely native relations link them to the other side.

  5. He is indeed worthy of respect for his humanity in the conduct of the war, and of some pity in his present peculiar position.

  6. Aguinaldo's scholarship is too meagre for an elevated position, and his dignity and self-respect too great for an inferior one.

  7. Amidst mourning and triumph she was conducted to the presence of the rebel commander-in-chief, Emilio Aguinaldo, who received her with the respect due to the sorrowing relict of their departed hero.

  8. Therefore, I respect all the vital forces in it at the cost of my life and my fortune.

  9. Beloved by his subordinates, his large-hearted geniality wins him the admiration of all who know him, and even the respect of the savage whom he had to coerce.

  10. Like rules shall be reciprocally observed in favour of Spain in respect of documents in the archives of the islands above referred to.

  11. All these reformers were virtually working men, though most of them rose to positions of respect and affluence.

  12. But there was not much now left to work upon--health, honor, self-respect were all gone.

  13. With respect to Duels, indeed, I have my own ideas.

  14. In respect of style our Author manifests the same genial capability, marred too often by the same rudeness, inequality, and apparent want of intercourse with the higher classes.

  15. In respect of diet, they have also their observances.

  16. We may now turn to the way in which we draw the distinction with respect to the secondary qualities of physical things.

  17. But phenomena are only representations of things which exist unknown in respect of what they may be in themselves.

  18. In the case of the perception of what is spatial there is no transition in principle from knowledge of what things look to knowledge of what things are, though there is continually such a transition in respect of details.

  19. The second division of judgements is said to be a division in respect of quality into affirmative, negative, and infinite, i.

  20. It must be carried out as much in respect of the pure or a priori elements of space and time as in respect of the manifold of sensation, for individual spaces and times contain a multiplicity which, to be apprehended, must be combined.

  21. We ask with respect to knowledge in general, and not merely with respect to certain particular items of knowledge, whether we know or can know reality, and not merely appearance.

  22. He thus gains something in respect of which, with regard to spatial relations we can be said to have knowledge and not illusion.

  23. But if this represents Kant's meaning, the schema of reality relates only to our process of apprehension, and therefore is not a conception which relates to objects and is more concrete than the corresponding category in respect of time.

  24. But, from the very beginning, our consciousness of what a thing appears in respect of spatial characteristics implies the consciousness of it as spatial and therefore also as, in particular, three-dimensional.

  25. Even if this supposition be tenable in certain cases,[12] it is not tenable in respect of the objects of a complex conception, with which Kant is dealing.

  26. In this respect it resembles the modern phrase 'theory of knowledge'.

  27. The distinction, then, between perception and conception can be drawn with respect to any characteristic of objects, and does not serve to distinguish one from another.

  28. But he had a strong will, a tender conscience, and seeing that he was sinking in his own respect and in that of others, he determined to abandon his musical profession.

  29. Thousands who witnessed the execution of the sentence exhibited their respect by removing their caps.

  30. I was thus prepared to admit any black man, possessing the attributes of true manhood or any good qualities, to my friendship, even to a brotherhood with myself; and to respect him for such, as much as if he were of my own colour and race.

  31. I observed that universal respect was paid to him.

  32. I have seen men, in whose company I felt nothing but a thraldom, which it was a duty to my own self-respect to cast off as soon as possible; a feeling of utter incompatibility, with whose nature mine could never assimilate.

  33. I have been happy (the word is weak to express it) in my domestic relations, happy in the dearest and holiest friendships, and happy in the respect of society.

  34. Dewey, like Franklin, who trained the lightning of the sky to respect the safety, and finally to run the errands of men on earth, brought religion from its remote home and domesticated it in the immediate present.

  35. But I am not an exacting or punctilious person, and that is one reason why we have got along so well together 3 as well as that you are one whom nobody can know without taking a plaguy kindness and respect for, and can't help it.

  36. Whatever be the religious judgments formed of such men, mine is one of mingled respect and regret.

  37. Samaritan, to help the people, it did not respect his virtue at all, but blew him over.

  38. Her religious opinions were of the most catholic stamp, and in one respect they were peculiar.

  39. Or, respect this and repent, as the Chinese say.

  40. The Friends are trained up to reverence the inward light, and have the less respect for historical Christianity.

  41. Dismay and a kind of respect seized hold on Davis in his own despite.

  42. For Archie they had, one and all, a sensitive affection and respect which recoiled from a word of belittlement.

  43. A rumour has spread that General Trochu, in accepting the charge imposed on him, has exacted from the Government the solemn assurance of respect for God, and for the rights of Family and Property.

  44. In this respect at least, let me hope that I can furnish you with understanding.

  45. Give that opinion without respect to my feelings one way or other.

  46. He told us all that could make us still more respect the Marquis de Rochebriant, and still more eagerly long to know our cousin and the head of our house," answered Raoul, with a certain nobleness of tone and manner.

  47. But it is all the same: in one respect you are quite right.

  48. But there was to him a charm in that old hotel, and the richest 'locataire' therein was not treated with a respect so ceremonious as that which at tended the lodger on the fourth story.

  49. With these the name of Rochebriant was too historically famous not to insure respect of its owner; they welcomed him among them as if he were their brother.

  50. But these had made their proposals with the formal respect habitual to French decorum in matrimonial proposals.

  51. The poor do not go to the modern church, but they went to the ancient church all right; and if the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

  52. I am quite ready to respect another man's faith; but it is too much to ask that I should respect his doubt, his worldly hesitations and fictions, his political bargain and make-believe.

  53. When science began to use by-products; when science found that colors could be made out of coaltar, she made her greatest and perhaps her only claim on the real respect of the human soul.

  54. Now this is just one respect in which the Commons are actually like the Common People.

  55. It IS impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong.

  56. With all respect for your natural acumen, I do not think that you are quite a match for the worthy doctor.

  57. He had, as you saw, the best of the first exchanges, but my self-respect and my reputation are concerned to fight it to a finish.

  58. I recognized him at once as Stanley Hopkins, a young police inspector, for whose future Holmes had high hopes, while he in turn professed the admiration and respect of a pupil for the scientific methods of the famous amateur.

  59. Being summoned to respect the kingdoms of his nephews, whose guardian you are, he answered that he would submit only to the judgment of the grandees of Austrasia and of Burgundy themselves.

  60. Accordingly, the prelates of Chalon found themselves obliged to respect his rights, while they never desisted from pursuing their ends through perfidious means.

  61. Eternal acknowledgment to Loysik--respect and gratitude for our friend, our good father!

  62. This charter binds the bishop and his successors to respect the rights of the monks of the monastery and of the inhabitants of this valley.

  63. The Bishop of Chalon, out of respect for the place, and without receiving therefor any price whatever, shall bless the altar of the monastery of Charolles, and, if requested shall grant the holy chrism every year.

  64. A gain may be made in this way in respect of general harmony, as before observed, but it is a gain which never can counterbalance the loss in point of pith and picturesqueness.

  65. Ben Jonson, and indeed all our older writers, indulge in the like free variations of the heroic measure; and the poets of the present day, in imitating their higher qualities, have also followed their example in respect of mere versification.

  66. Of the following twelve monosyllables closing in ash, the different opening letters give a different force, in respect of sound, to each word, and such as perfectly accords with the actual and several meanings.

  67. So bravery, true courage, and manliness will win respect even from enemies.

  68. But Southern orators and political speakers were invited North, and listened to with respect by the thinking, reasoning people,--the pupils of the common schools.

  69. But, in the modern, you ought to know the bounds and extent of every state in Europe, and its situation with respect to the rest.

  70. All of them showed affectionate respect to the Bishop; the Prince of Wales pressed his hand so hard that he hurt it.

  71. Benjamin Jeffreys) who seems in every respect calculated to make her happy.

  72. It may be sufficient for this end, if, with respect to ancient Geography, you have a general idea of the situation of all the great states, without being able precisely to ascertain their limits.

  73. Whoever cultivates in himself a proper humility, a due sense of his own faults and insufficiencies, and a due respect for others, will find but small temptation to violent or unreasonable anger.

  74. In both the countries named, the better minds find it quite easy to treat their religion as merely the respect paid to ancestors, and thus divest it of the supernatural element.

  75. And how is one to rationally have respect or affection for anything before one has ascertained that they are deserving of either?

  76. Shrouded in the cloak of philosophy, the question of the existence of God continues to attract attention, and, I may add, to command more respect than it deserves.

  77. It may be granted that Atheism in its appeals to mankind often fails, but in this respect is it any worse off than religion?

  78. Clearly, on this rule, either we compel a man to sacrifice his sense of self-respect before we will allow him to be heard, or we pack the jury with persons who confess to have reached a decision before they have heard the evidence.

  79. Reverence is a very complex state, but it certainly includes respect and a certain measure of affection.

  80. In this respect Atheism has to be considered in its historic developments.

  81. In primitive times it is ignorance of the character of natural forces that leads to the assumption of the existence of gods, and in this respect the god-idea has remained true to itself throughout.

  82. And in this respect it is dangerous for the Christian theist to appeal to history.

  83. You have heard how Pearce saved the Bristol girl from the burning house, how Jackson won the respect and friendship of the best men of his age, and how Gully rose to a seat in the first Reformed Parliament.

  84. You will honour the King, and show respect for the Constitution, Mr. Stone.

  85. Never before had I understood that deep-seated fear and wholesome respect which many centuries of bludgeoning at the hands of the law had beaten into the fierce and turbulent natives of these islands.

  86. Let men and officers know and respect each other, and there's no difficulty in keeping a ship's company.

  87. No more than I would respect a Lowland proclamation," said Angus M'Aulay.

  88. Sir Duncan listened with decency, though he was supposed rather to have joined the Covenanters out of devotion to his chief, than real respect for the cause either of liberty or of Presbytery.

  89. I believe it was the respect that was universally paid to this worthy veteran by all ranks in Gandercleugh which induced him to choose our village for his residence, for such was by no means his original intention.

  90. But I hold it good to pardon such freedoms on a march, in respect of the Saturnalian license indulged in such cases to the troops of all nations.

  91. Respect my mourning, my child," she said, rebukingly.

  92. He hath suffered extraordinarily in that respect of late.

  93. I do not deserve the admiration and respect which my success-worshiping fellow-countrymen lay at my feet.

  94. In their wild hunts Stephen had shown a reckless audacity, a rapidly acquired skill, that gradually commanded the respect of the cynical and indifferent Captain Jabez himself.

  95. Stephen sighed in helpless irritation; after all, what was the use of pretending to himself that it was the respect of his fellow man for which he exerted himself in these strenuous exertions to show nautical strength and skill?

  96. In this respect Ruskin's teaching might be mottoed with George Herbert's-- "Who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

  97. Some respect must be shown to congregations too.

  98. Out of the respect and reverence due your Majesty I do not enter into details; I only state particularly that the games of cards have been revived among them.

  99. I may have failed, in my manner of writing, to observe the respect and form due to my king and lord, but I believe that I have not been at fault in purpose or zeal.

  100. Many solemn baptisms and marriages have been celebrated which were attended with great fervor, especially by the inhabitants of one village, who in this respect have had the advantage of the others.

  101. I am confident that you will respect them, because I know that you love all manly qualities.

  102. In this respect the current was like a wrestler who lifts his opponent off his feet before he flings him down.

  103. The boys had been through some hard places together, as I have elsewhere recorded; and they had come through the good and the bad of their undertakings with mutual respect and liking.

  104. In this respect these insulators are unlike air, which allows a disruptive discharge at once when the voltage to which it is exposed reaches an amount that the air cannot permanently withstand.

  105. In one respect the strain on poles that carry aluminum may be greater than that on poles with equivalent copper lines, namely, in that of wind pressure.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "respect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accept; acceptance; accordance; account; acquittal; adherence; admiration; admire; adoration; adore; affect; allegiance; amenity; angle; answer; apotheosis; application; appreciate; appreciation; approbation; approval; approve; article; aspect; assiduity; awareness; awe; basis; bearing; belong; bless; blessing; burden; business; care; case; charge; civility; commitment; compliance; comply; concentration; concern; configuration; conform; conformity; connect; connection; consciousness; consider; consideration; correspond; count; countenance; courtesy; credit; datum; dedication; deference; deification; deify; detail; devotion; diligence; discharge; duty; ear; earnestness; effect; eidolon; element; endorse; endorsement; espial; espionage; esteem; estimation; ethics; exalt; execution; eye; facet; fact; factor; fashion; favor; fealty; fear; feature; figure; fill; follow; footing; form; framework; fulfill; fulfillment; goodwill; guise; hallow; harmony; heed; heeding; homage; honor; idolatry; idolize; image; imperative; impression; incidental; indorse; instance; intentness; interest; involve; item; keep; keeping; light; like; likeness; lineaments; look; lookout; loyalty; manner; mark; materiality; matter; meet; memory; minutiae; mission; must; name; nod; note; notice; obedience; obeisance; obey; obligation; observance; observation; observe; onus; outlook; particular; performance; pertinence; phase; piety; place; point; politeness; position; practice; prestige; prize; prostration; rapport; recognize; refer; reference; regard; relate; relevance; remark; respect; revere; reverence; sanction; satisfaction; satisfy; seeming; semblance; shape; side; sight; simulacrum; situation; slant; solicitude; spying; stand; standpoint; style; submit; sympathy; system; tact; thing; thought; thoughtfulness; touch; treasury; tribute; twist; universe; uphold; value; venerate; veneration; view; viewpoint; voice; vote; watch; wise; worship; worth; yea


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    respectable family; respectable woman; respectful distance; respecting the