Sentence examples for On comity from inspiring English sources

Injunctions against foreign sovereigns have come under criticism on comity and enforcement grounds.

Many buildings that have not yet been sold are owned and operated through partnerships so complex that they virtually depend on comity to be administered efficiently.

And the president who prides himself on comity lashed back at opponents who have filled the airwaves with talk of "death panels".

Mr. Nelson added that "a body like this runs on comity and common sense," and he said he worried that going nuclear would do serious damage to that atmosphere.

A spot in the chamber during the State of the Union is considered by some to be the equivalent of a seat at the Oscars in Hollywood, so one middle-school girl from South Carolina hit the jackpot when the congressman from her district, Representative Trey Gowdy,  invited her to sit with him after he read her essay on comity in Congress.

But Joshua Wolff, a lawyer for the city, said in a statement, "We are extremely pleased that the Circuit Court affirmed the lower court's dismissal on comity grounds, holding both that the parking surtax exemption afforded to Manhattan residents does not implicate any fundamental constitutional right and that state court is therefore the proper forum in which to address a case such as this".

We have, so far, restricted ourselves to a simpler and more crucial task, seeking to resituate the principle of comity as one on which to rely for the resolution of different types of conflicts between international jurisdictions, and to question the traditional assumption that it is just an unhelpful complication: its history and rediscovery suggest otherwise.

"There is just a lack of comity on both sides".

One of them, Patti Murray of Washington State, was co-author of the compromise budget deal that produced a rare outbreak of comity on Capitol Hill last week, and you can't but feel the system would function a great deal better if more women, less confrontational and more inclined to collaborate, were around.

On appeal, AOL contends that the trial court erred in permitting its subpoena power to be invoked by APTC without requiring APTC to make a showing of any legitimate and compelling need to proceed anonymously and that the trial court should not have deferred on grounds of comity to the Indiana court's decision to allow APTC to proceed anonymously.

Perhaps he was lulled into a false sense of comity by his one on one meetings with the senators.