The polite request can also be surprisingly effective at lowering tension: I have courteously asked kids throwing sand to stop and they have (all right, they were aged four).
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.
He courteously asked his new colleagues for suggestions to improve the revision.
Unfortunately, robbing banks wasn't always as simple as courteously asking the cashiers to hand over the loot and, on more than one occasion, Sha had to resort to more blunt methods to help things along.
They had received training on child rights for three days before the meeting and they courteously asked participants to respect their rights by not taking photographs or recordings.
If the ticket holder arrives, he politely asks you to move, and you courteously comply.
Most civilians were treated courteously and asked to leave the area.
If you know someone who speaks the language you want to learn, then courteously try to ask that person to teach you.
Lightly annoy your siblings by acting silly/ignorant when you talk to them, but be pleasant and stop courteously when they ask you to.
A shy woman, asked courteously about herself, looks at the eyes turned her way and says, painfully, "I feel like I'm on 'The Merv Griffin Show.' " On the one hand you sympathize with the decent and generally personable characters -- seven 30-ish folks, including one lesbian couple, one heterosexual couple, two single men and Libby, whose inner loneliness the play is bent on exposing.
