Sentence examples for etiquette calls from inspiring English sources

Navigating cultural differences overseas can make for fascinating moments: for example, figuring out whether proper greeting etiquette calls for a bow, handshake or a kiss on the cheek.

And on each stage, longstanding etiquette calls for no flash photography, ringing cellphones, audience chatter or crowd movement, any of which can distract the performers and throw them off.

And indeed, Mother-in-Law-to-Be, you're right on the money in asserting that traditional etiquette calls for the "traditional" (what your daughter would call "paternalistic" and "sexist") form of address.

Proper etiquette calls for you to ask "Is someone sitting here?" Then the gentleman should gather his belongings and stand (rather than swivel his bony knees so you can trip over them) to let you sit.

That's why modern etiquette calls for any committed couple to be addressed with both names on one line, joined by "and," as in: Mr. Neil Patrick Harris and Mr. David Burtka (prohibited from legally marrying in California) or Ms. Ellen DeGeneres and Ms. Portia DeGeneres (It's up to the couple to decide their preference for the name order).

Proper etiquette calls for truthfulness and authenticity which, in turn, makes re-gifting an insincere gesture.

Judith Kallos, who runs a site on Internet etiquette called netmanners.com, said the No. 1 complaint is that "people feel they're being ignored".

By Joanne Kaufman The New Yorker, January 16 , 1995P. 29 Signed Talk story about Nancy Tuckerman, the co-author of a new book on etiquette called "Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette", which is an updated version of Vanderbilt's 1952 guide.

Steve and the children, who have driven to Nickerson with their bikes, meander down the trail to meet me, and then we ride northward together, Hannah and Daniel taking turns passing each other, having picked up the proper trail etiquette (call out "on your left" as you whip by).

Williams said he was dismissed by Woods in a phone call, classier than an e-mail but still a breach of the unwritten code of tour etiquette that calls for a face-to-face denouement.

And nobody — especially nobody senior — ever violates bureaucratic etiquette and calls out a specific country for conventional deterrence.