with all due respect

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Although I think highly of you, as in With all due respect, you haven't really answered my question , or With all due respect, that account doesn't fit the facts . This phrase always precedes a polite disagreement with what a person has said or brings up a controversial point. [c. 1800]

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“With all due respect, we finished last last year, so everything that we did last year was thrown out the window,” Plum said Sunday in Torrance, where the Sparks opened training camp.

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The problem is not all Americans — with all due respect, it’s the white ones.

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But the biggest learning curve for England from the Ashes and Lewis' era is that winning bilateral series, with all due respect to the opposition, do not count for much.

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"With all due respect to Will, I don't necessarily agree or accept that characterisation of our coaching staff," the 30-year-old told BBC Sport.

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Then on Wednesday, Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv: "We are seeing a lot of disinformation and it's coming from Russia. With all due respect to President Donald Trump as a leader... he is living in this disinformation space."

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