Definitions
Wiktionary
- prep. Regarding; concerning; pertaining to.
Examples
“Guided by ancient Jewish and Christian tradition they feel constrained to abide by the explicit titles to the same collections, all the more so because the titles in the Book of Proverbs are manifestly discriminating with respect to authorship, and because the title, "These also are Mishle Shelomoh, which the men of Ezechias, King of Juda, copied out" (xxv, 1), in particular, bears the impress of definiteness and accuracy.”
“When you have done analysis with respect to yourself, searching for an inherently existent “I,” eventually you experience a nonfinding of “I,” but is this the emptiness of inherent existence or something coarser?”
“Dollar Thrifty said that it is urging shareholders to take no action with respect to the exchange offer given the uncertainty surrounding the length and outcome of the regulatory process as the company works with both Hertz and Avis Budget Group”
Forbes: Dollar Thrifty Tells Shareholders To Spurn Hertz Offer
“And so, on January 20, 2003, Bush signed National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 24, creating a postwar planning office within the Defense Department that would undertake detailed planning across the spectrum of issues that the United States Government would face with respect to the postwar administration of Iraq.”
“There they pronounced an attack on one of the colonies an attack on all, entered into a nonimportation agreement with respect to British goods, and urged that arrangements be made, through the Committees of Correspondence, for representatives of each colony to meet in early September 1774 in Philadelphia as a Continental Congress.”
“Part of his insistence on their being included stemmed from the fact that there were deep suspicions at State about the NSCs intentions with respect to issues like German unification and the need to reach out to Gorbachev.”
“However, Rauscher immediately obtained from the emperor the annulment of the sentence and of the consequences which it entailed with respect to civil rights and relations.”
“UNCERTAINTY The degree to which a number of alternatives are perceived with respect to the occurrence of an event and the relative probabilities of these alternatives.”
“Delivering the first convocation address of the Bharathidasan University's constituent college for women, Ponnavaikko said that the country remained poor with respect to per capita income though it has good gross domestic product (GDP) growth and purchase power parity.”
“This is why the seventeenth-century First Panchen Lama emphasized that inherent existence must be refuted with respect to that very first “I” that usually appears.”
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Orwellian Purism
Words and phrases George Orwell criticizes in his essay 'Politics and the English Language'.
ring the changes on, take up the cudge..., toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to..., play into the han..., no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubl..., on the order of t..., Achilles’ heel, swan song and 162 more...
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"Make the reader do the work" terms a...
Phrases that often say to the reader "now that I've thrown all these ideas together, you figure out how they're related." These phrases fail to specify how the ideas relate to each other, often be...
in this regard, with regard to, concerning, with respect to, in regard to, regarding, as concerns, as regards, in connection with, when it comes to
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