Word info Synonyms

insofar as

Conjunction

Meaning

insofar as

to the extent that

She helped us insofar as she was able.
She cites other scholars' work only insofar as it supports her own theories.

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In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself. Ephrem the Syrian

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life. Aldous Huxley

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. Arthur Eddington

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. Daniel Berrigan

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious. H. L. Mencken

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself. John Calvin

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