Sentence examples for etiquette system from inspiring English sources

Etiquette, system of rules and conventions that regulate social and professional behaviour.

"A major etiquette system is needed if the powerless are to be protected," she writes.

Unlike the mosh pit etiquette evidenced at System of a Down's show (which, it might be said, included a fair proportion of older, more veteran festival heads), plenty of attendees fell victim to the crush, falling to the muddy floor and left unaided, trampled by their fellow revelers.

And it's not just an issue in metropolitan American cities: commuters on the London Underground have expressed a huge interest in banning the practice, and as recently as 1976, Tokyo subway system etiquette campaigns have more or less associated manspreading with Hitler.

Etiquette is a system of manners and customs that each individual culture devises.

The Middle Ages was a golden period for Western etiquette, since the feudal system was strictly stratified.

But our anthropologist might also become interested in the nature of manners; he might wonder how, in general, one set of rules of table manners comes to be the system of etiquette governing a particular group.

The conversation around San Francisco's recent "Nude-in," held to protest a proposed law that would limit public nudity, which is currently legal in the city, raises an interesting question: When a practice arrives at the point where it has a system of etiquette, has it lost its shock value?

This system of etiquette has been developed by the horses for thousands of years and is ingrained in every sane individual.

Indeed, events held in public dance halls and concert salons were commercial rather than invitational initiatives, and they did not adhere to the elaborate systems of etiquette that governed ballrooms.

For an illuminating discussion of the analogies between semantic rules and systems of etiquette, see McKeown-Green (2002).