'as respects' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to mean "concerning" or "with regard to". For example, "As respects the deadline, let's try to finish the project by next week."
But there is no ground for so thinking either as respects the South or the North.
England's national squad joined the one-minute silence across Europe on Monday as respects were paid to the victims of the Paris terror attacks, with captain Wayne Rooney and manager Roy Hodgson expressing their condolences to those who have suffered.
He is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and somewhat rustic, although courteous manners... [He] seems inclined to lead a sort of Indian life among civilised men - an Indian life, I mean, as respects the absence of any systematic effort for a livelihood".
So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life".
Although lognormal accelerated failure time adjusted all variables for a change as respects time, it required a stronger assumption on survival time.
Results were then reported in terms quite meaningful as respects relative odds of death at one or more specific times of interest.
They aren't as respected.
She herself was as discreet as Penelope and as respected as Lucretia.
In New York, his leadership abilities and paternal demeanor make him nearly as respected as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.
"In China serious artists like us aren't as respected as pop singers.
It's because, in the United States, women's sport stars aren't as respected as their male counterparts.
