"I don't want to personalise it but obviously I do regret that while my representations have been listened to patiently and courteously, they have not been heeded".
He courteously replied, 'It is Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois.'" We will conclude with a passage from Lincoln's letter to Colonel Hodges, of Kentucky, written in April , 1864
He has already given several interviews during the day but he remains calmly and courteously insistent that, if he had to do it again, he would take the same decisions.
He nearly always treated them courteously, yet he gave little of himself away.
Their letters are usually courteous, and should be courteously received; one can, after all, write sailboard.
Mr Hollings walks in stately fashion through Greenville's local government offices, reminiscing with matronly ladies about friends long since gone from the political stage and courteously expressing "appreciation for your consideration in November".This race, the Hollings camp concedes, will be very close.
General McChrystal's directive on the need for units to drive vehicles courteously is little different from the order issued by his sacked predecessor, General David McKiernan, and posted at NATO bases: "We can't win if you drive recklessly".But if the theory is the same, the implementation may be different.
In 1997, accompanied by his mother, he was received courteously and a referendum was held on whether the monarchy should be restored.
He always courteously obliged them, though by the end his thin, scratchy voice came out in gasps.
Although SPEEA members voted to affiliate themselves with the AFL-CIO only last October, the (mainly blue-collar) union federation has courteously contributed to the engineers' tiny strike fund.As for Boeing, even though the aircraft maker has industrial logic on its side, the suspicion remains that it has not handled the strike well.
Would the West have been wrong, Mr Clinton courteously asked, to "interfere" in Russian affairs and stand up for Mr Yeltsin if the coup leaders had jailed him?Mr Yeltsin, for his part, sounded off with remarkable vigour against "the aggression by NATO, with America at its head, against Yugoslavia", and suggested that Europeans should be allowed to settle their own affairs.
