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Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor at National Review, noted that conservatives throughout history have esteemed “mediating institutions” like schools and churches, sources of authority other than the state.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2011

Mabel had told her lover before that she did not aspire to please the multitude, that she would have esteemed such cheap and tawdry success a humiliating failure.

From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

About this period Scheffer seems to have wandered a little from the true mission of Art, and to have esteemed it her province to represent abstract theological truths.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

All, however, must have esteemed themselves fortunate in falling under the command of one so able to do his duty under such trying circumstances.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet

Some have esteemed it a heartless piece of ridicule, a callous laugh raised out of abject misery.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)