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regard English

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regard

If you have regard for something, you respect it. He has a high regard for his teacher. These people have no regard for other people's feelings. Regard is how something is though about or looked at. We do disagree, but only in regard to how much the government is spending. What has he said with regard to taxes? He's made a lot of money and is certainly a success in that regard. You use Regards as a closing in a formal letter. You ask somebody to give somebody else your regards as a formal way to show your concern for and interest in these people.

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If you regard something, you think about it. How do you regard his actions? She's widely regarded as the best tennis player in history. When you regard something, you look at it. She regarded him with a smile.

regard

(= see, consider, view) deem to be She views this quite differently from me I consider her to be shallow I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do look at attentively (= affect) connect closely and often incriminatingly This new ruling affects your business (= respect) (usually preceded by 'in') a detail or point it differs in that respect (= attentiveness, heed) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) his attentiveness to her wishes he spends without heed to the consequences (= wish) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare give him my kind regards my best wishes (= gaze) a long fixed look he fixed his paternal gaze on me (= respect) a feeling of friendship and esteem she mistook his manly regard for love he inspires respect (= esteem, respect) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) it is held in esteem a man who has earned high regard (= respect, esteem) an attitude of admiration or esteem she lost all respect for him

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Simple sentences

We regard the situation as serious.
Scientists regard the discovery as important.
In Europe and America they regard the dog as a member of the family.
Don't regard me as your father anymore.
That doesn't regard you at all.
With regard to the problem, they have another opinion.
I have nothing to say with regard to that problem.
The bank director was held in high regard.
With regard to the style this car is best.
In regard to the schedule, I'll let you know later.
What do you have to say with regard to this problem?
Your essay is admirable in regard to style.
In Europe, people regard punctuality as a matter of course.
Regard all art critics as useless and dangerous.
That company hires people without regard to race, religion, or nationality.
We all regard Thomas Edison as a great inventor.
We regard him as our hero.
I regard myself as your guardian.
I regard him as a poet.
Nobody will regard us as office workers.
Many Americans are uncomfortable with silence, and they tend to regard silence in a conversation as a signal that they need to start talking.
He often acted without regard to the feelings of others.
We regard him as the best player on the team.
She seldom pays regard to my advice.
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Movie subtitles

Once, when Zheng He had sailed the high seas, China had been able to regard distant Europeans with indifference, if not contempt.
You need to wear it for a few hours each day, then report back to me with regard to comfort and the snugness of the fit.
Regard your judges.
I'm sorry, sir, but I cannot regard that as a serious objection.
They wouldn't regard the marriage as authentic. unless it were formally announced at a dinner table, you know?
But Mr. Preysing has too great a regard for the certainty.
But I beg you to remember, if you have no regard for me the effect on Sergei, our son.
They seem to regard his likeness as a sacred image.
I have said farewell to everything I've been accustomed to regard as indispensable.
I can't understand men that have such little regard for law and order.
Mrs. Warriner, step up and tell me why you regard the dog. as your personal property, so the court may decide if he should remain with you.
I shall ever regard him as the best and wisest man.
Mrs. Merriwether, I have great regard for your knowledge.
With regard to this loss, I think what you should do is to talk if you have something to say.
You men of science regard me and my kind as meddlesome fanatics but ld rather have one grain of my faith than all your scientific disbelief.
However, I've become accustomed to regard you. as one of those extraordinary women. who create their own laws and logic.
From now on, I no longer regard myself as a slave.
You are mistaken, Watson. He followed the master's example in every regard.
Lieutenant Johnson I regard being called a rubberneck a deliberate impertinence.
You live at 110 Rue du Regard, a nice apartment, but it doesn't get much sun.
I have a high regard for you, but. Your Honor, these boys were arrested this morning.
We must have regard for certain conventions.
They all regard it as a very interesting situation.
Notice that people who have no regard for punctuality have no regard for other things as well.
How do suppose those eyes will regard you when the brain is able to understand?
He seems not to regard me as his father.
He followed the master's example in every regard.
This was made possible by the genius of Field Marshal Herring, upon whom I shall now pin a token of my regard.
Because you'll never be a first-class human being or woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.
The fact is, you'll never. You can't be a first-rate writer or a first-rate human being, until you've learned to have some small regard for human frai.
I may be what you regard as a chair warmer now but a few months ago, I was flying with my squadron on fighter patrol over the English Channel at 30,000 feet.
Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one of those bedside manners with a list of the proper pills to give the patient, particularly when you don't know what is the matter with him.
You do not regard her as a good literary subject?

News and current affairs

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions.
But it makes far more sense to use the force of markets - the power of incentives - than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as maximizing profits, regardless of the cost to others.
The current war of memories between the Baltic republics and Russia, with regard to the international celebration in Moscow on 9 May this year, reminds Germany of a special historic responsibility.
Many people regard debt relief and socialization of debts as the only way out.
While this is a reasonable demand, the rest of the Middle East - and, indeed, much of the world, including Europe - regard the root cause of the conflict as Israeli intransigence and arrogance, together with America's blind support for it.
Queen Victoria, mostly of German blood, did not regard herself as a monarch of Britons alone, but of Indians, Malays, and many other peoples, too.
Across the Atlantic, most Americans (to the extent they pay attention) regard these changes with general approval.
Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige: control over the budget through the work of the Assembly's Fifth Committee.
Instead of hunting, fishing, and clearing land without regard for the impact on other species, we need to pace our agricultural production, fishing, and logging in line with the environment's carrying capacity.
So there is great tension everywhere between how the public, and how doctors regard a possible contract in the field of assisted dying.
This approach might recognize Russia's droit de regard on the future evolution of the Caucasus.
I held the US in high regard and figured that it would be only a matter of time before they realized that I was innocent and let me go.
Local officials used growing revenues during the boom to fund pet projects or boost pay and benefits, with little regard to future costs.
But the success of such an approach depends on Israel's readiness to engage Hamas, which it continues to regard as a terrorist group, and on the viability of Egyptian mediation.
In that two year period, Chavez stepped on the gas for his social reforms - education, health care, etc. - and also in regard to breaking down the country's excessive concentrations of wealth.
Indeed, many argue that the risk of gun-related deaths and injuries is the price that Americans must pay for the right to bear arms, which they regard as a powerful defense against tyranny.
Although states in the Asia-Pacific region have come a long way in this regard, regional structures are nowhere near as strong as Euro-Atlantic structures.
The most successful countries in this regard have been the Anglo-Saxon countries (Canada, Ireland, Australia, the United States, and the UK, in that order), as well as Denmark and Norway.
Many Russians do not regard Europe as a political and economic partner, or even as an ally.
Islamic fundamentalists reckon that what the rest of us regard as the liberalizing influence of technological progress and globalization is a brash re-run of Western colonialism.
Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao continually affirms that he will not hold a summit with a Japanese prime minister who goes to Yasukuni, which most Chinese regard as a glorification of past Japanese aggression and colonialism.
Indeed, many regard Netanyahu's Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.
In America and the West, many will probably regard Rowhani as the friendly face of the Islamic Republic, whereas Ahmadinejad was its true - because more radical - embodiment.

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