6 sentences with “respects”

Similar in some respects to innovations in the visual arts and music, modernist literature created a new approach to poetry and prose.

Alexander the Great made a point of visiting the major Egyptian temples and paying his respects to the Egyptian gods (he identified the main Egyptian deity, Amun-Ra, with Zeus, father of the Greek gods), which undoubtedly facilitated his acceptance by the Egyptians.

Although Western European politics and economics underwent a number of changes in the decades following the Second World War, they nevertheless represent essential continuity (i.e. market economies, welfare states, democratic politics) in many respects up to the present.

Numerous aspects of government, even in the late 18th century, remained surprisingly "medieval" in some respects, such as the fact that laws were different from city to city and region to region, based on the accumulation of various royal grants and traditional rights over the centuries.

However, the two countries were in many respects poles apart: Britain was an advanced industrial economy with a liberal constitution and a monarchy whose real political power diminished over time, while Russia was an overwhelmingly agricultural - even feudal - economy with a powerful autocratic head of state: the tsar.

All these ideas have something in common. It should also be noted that there was never anything resembling a democratic or liberal society in Russia. There was no tradition of what the British called the "loyal opposition" of political parties that may disagree in some respects but are still accepted as legitimate expressions of the will and opinion of parts of the citizenry.