˜yĐÄvlog

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according as

conjunction

  1. to the extent that; proportionately as.
  2. depending on whether; if:

    I'll stay according as I have the money.

  3. depending on how.


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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of according as1

First recorded in 1475–1500
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Emer de Vattel’s highly influential 1758 treatise, “The Law of Nations,” described this power as plenary: “The sovereign may forbid the entrance of his territory either to foreigners in general, or in particular cases, or to certain persons, or for certain particular purposes, according as he may think it advantageous to the state.”

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I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.

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"Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age," he wrote in his first autobiography, "when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of revelation itself."

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“A total team win,” coach Tyronn Lue called it, rightfully according as much respect to reserve Patrick Beverley’s four-block, all-snarl defensive effort as to the 31-point contributions made by pillars Paul George and Kawhi Leonard.

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More than that, writes Mayhew: “I shall consider the whole of the metropolitan poor under three separate phases, according as they will work, they can’t work, and they won’t work.”

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