Sentence examples for example of civility from inspiring English sources

Their behavior was an example of civility and the American spirit that was seen and heard around the world.

I saw the "cordiality" as an example of civility that should become a model for all of us — individuals as well as politicians and community leaders across the country.

Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio, was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city's residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.

Examples of civility would be when elected officials are decent to opponents, seek compromise with them or even share a common understanding of facts.

They ought to be examples of civility and respect.

Moderators have asked candidates to directly confront the others, making perhaps for entertaining reality television but dismal examples of civility and respect.

In a country scarred by violence and with a rabble-rouser in the wings, it remains a shining example of political civility.

Lou Pinella makes John McEnroe seem a like model of civility.

Sheppard's passing feels like the loss of a significant representative of civility in the world.

However, thanks to anti-hip-hop posturing and shallow-minded generalizations, Macklemore is being used as an example of ground-breaking "civility" for rap.

Had they known anything about the good old "civil" days when tobacco juice was sprayed, shins were kicked, and fists were swung as often as home runs were hit, the council might have looked elsewhere for a more accurate defining example of the decline of civility-say, for example, at the demonstrators of the 1960s who thought it gloriously patriotic to spit at cops from their moral high ground.