The Taliban have urged the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to turn a delay in signing a long-term security deal with the United States into outright rejection, in an unusually polite statement directed at a leader the insurgents have repeatedly denounced as a US puppet.
A polite argument ensues.
A polite, simple statement is probably best.
It was a polite gesture by the Dalai Lama to his host, the AEI, and not a political statement.
His vituperative response went far beyond the polite statement issued by the channel, which expressed respectful disagreement.
As a result, Mr. Ashcroft was careful to answer questions with polite statements couched in general principles.
Kristen Walker, the solicitor general of Victoria, told the court the law was designed to tackle the "full spectrum" of behaviour that cause stress and anxiety – from "polite" statements directed at women's personal medical decisions, to noisy protests featuring "images of dismembered foetuses" and "frightening false statements", such as that abortion causes cancer.
"Opponents of choice who call physicians 'baby killers' one day have no credibility the next when they issue polite statements of regret after physicians and escorts have been gunned down in cold blood," said the statement issued yesterday by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
On Sunday, Sulzberger, now seven months into his tenure as publisher of the Times, released a polite but stern statement responding to President Trump's characterization of their July 20 meeting at the White House.
In a polite but pointed statement, Hubert Nienhoff, the chief executive of gmp-Architekten, the German firm that designed the stadium, said that although the "precise planning and implementation that Germans are credited with" might be respected in Brazil, they are "not always compatible with the existing pragmatic day-to-day business" in the country.
