7 sentences with 'respected'
Example sentences and phrases with the word respected and other words derived from it.
• « The soul can also be reincarnated, and often in an animal like the tiger, so feared and respected. »
• « Emperors who respected Roman laws and traditions gained prestige and veneration for having done so, but there was never a formal legal challenge to imperial authority. »
• « Officers from opposing sides often considered themselves part of a kind of extended family; a captured officer could expect to be treated as a respected peer by his "enemies" until his own side paid his ransom. »
• « In practice, this meant that the full range of traditional rights, especially those of the nobles and cities, had to be respected. »
• « Even for scholars who respected and deferred to the ancient authors, much of ancient astronomy was based on some rather questionable speculations, such as the idea that the Earth sits on top of a giant sea that occasionally churns, causing earthquakes. »
• « Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Habsburg throne, a respected Austrian politician who was also a friend of the German Kaiser. Ironically, he was also the Austrian state politician with the most direct control of the Austrian military, and tended to favour peaceful diplomacy over the possible outbreak of war - it is possible that he would have been a prominent voice for peace had he survived. Instead, he was assassinated not by Austrian, Russian or French rivals, but by a young Serbian nationalist. »