"with respect to something" is a valid and common phrase in written English.
It is usually used to introduce a specific topic or aspect being discussed or considered. Example: With respect to the new policy, we will need to carefully review and make any necessary adjustments to our current procedures. In this sentence, "with respect to the new policy" means that the following statement or action relates to, or is being considered in relation to, the new policy.
The question of how many seconds per second time flows (or one advances through it) is obviously an absurd one, for it suggests that the flow or advance comprises a rate of change with respect to something else to a sort of hypertime.
From this it further happens that in the same indivisible boundary of matter there would be, at the same, time two specific substantial forms with respect to something that is indivisible in extension".
No belief is without effect, he claims, and believing on insufficient evidence even with respect to something apparently insignificant is likely to lead to the lowering of epistemic standards in other more important situations.
Because the source of any possibility is that it is possible with respect to something else: it is a relative conception.
You go skiing, you ride a bicycle--you weigh risks and benefits to yourself all the time; why should the same freedom be forbidden to you with respect to something as crucial as drugs?
For example, Iran's government was previously toppled with American assistance; the US hasn't taken seriously the task of securing a nuclear free zone in the Middle East (with respect to Israel), something the NPT obliges them to do; the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the war ships in the Persian Gulf and the surrounding area; US support of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
(I guess there I could have said, "and your tenacity with respect to working out," something that George Orwell would have preferred, no doubt).
Our cap situation is we're flexible, we can still do some things if we need to – something with respect to the salary cap.
"A mother's instincts with respect to her son are something that we should respect," Mr. MacMahon said.
Ruiz's latest film — or let's just say the next one American viewers will be able to see, since his oeuvre has a tendency to grow every time you reload his IMDb page — is based on the work of Camilo Castelo Branco, a 19th-century Portuguese author who seems to be, at least with respect to industriousness and inventiveness, something of a kindred soul.
With respect to the light response, something remarkable happens when images of different brightness are presented to each eye: The pupil constricts when the bright stimulus, relative to the dark stimulus, dominates awareness (see Fig. 1).
