Example sentences of "in this respect [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this respect he was faithful to the specific teaching of the Gītā on the need for detached or selfless action , and he may well be reflecting the stress on dharma , or duty , characteristic of the Hindu tradition and which received particular emphasis in the Buddhist tradition . |
| 2 | In this respect he was confirming that what the movies did best was to tell stories as effectively as they could without wandering too far from the values of the old nineteenth-century themes . |
| 3 | In this respect he was no different from greater Prime Ministers , Gladstone before him and Churchill after him , upon whom senility began to descend while they were still in office , except that with him it came when he was ten years or more younger . |
| 4 | His rise to prominence in political leadership was punctuated by long periods of withdrawal enforced by the colonial government : in this respect he was like Nehru during these same years , also held incommun-icado by the colonial power . |
| 5 | In this respect I was indeed fortunate to have such sensitive , understanding and adroit colleagues as Tony Geluch , Jimmy Gilmore and Don Horne working with me on hundreds of productions over my nine years at CBR . |
| 6 | In this respect it was good sales promotion , a catalogue of positive persuasion as the following quotation shows : |
| 7 | In this respect it was similar to the ban on P. G. Wodehouse 's novels during the Second World War when his broadcasts in Germany were believed to have given the Nazis propaganda support . |