Sentence examples for collegial in from inspiring English sources

He'd been collegial in the meetings we'd had with him.

While Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were rivals at different institutions in the race to develop a vaccine, working conditions were more collegial in the Harvard laboratory, where Dr. Weller was the newly appointed assistant director of the division of infectious diseases at Children's Medical Center.

Their response seems collegial in tone, granting trans-atlantic cultural differences (e.g., the imperative "remember" might be received less positively in America than in Britain).

I kept going: true friends; collegial colleagues; in-laws whose home, where I spend Thanksgiving, has come to feel like home.

"Contrary to press reports, we always worked together in a collegial spirit in the interests of the bank," Mr. Ackermann said.

With three floating business plans and his ardent belief in collegial software, Behlendorf in spring 1999 met with four venture firms.

Collegial, masculine in spirit, if not gender, and challenged in all matters of hygiene, the shack crew has for 146 years lived in the midst of the police, sometimes in the basement, sometimes across the street in a set of very grimy offices that inspired the name "the shack".

But the character of the discussions is more collegial than in 2000, when Verizon's unions struck for 18 days, disrupting service in parts of the 13 East Coast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia where the work force is concentrated.

So I always acted as if I was trying to — and I sincerely was trying — to have a more collegial atmosphere in the institution".

Its most radical inward move was not to democratize the church (though it has often been described that way) but to reinstate an older, more collegial style in church governance.

It was the third time that Russia and China had vetoed resolutions on Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began, and the collegial atmosphere in the Council chambers was tinged with bitterness and acrimony afterward.