Sentence examples for funeral protocol from inspiring English sources

All those package holidays in Spain were not just sun, sea, sangria and sex - apparently millions of the Queen's subjects were learning correct Mediterranean funeral protocol while historians and sociologists thought they were lazing on the beach.

Also funeral protocol and viewed as bad (or even ominous) table behavior.

Young people, losing friends to casual vendettas, became schooled in funeral protocols and steeped in grief.

Knowing in advance how one is expected to behave in certain circumstances frees one from the necessity of fretting about it – I don't have to worry about what to wear to a funeral, because protocol dictates it.

If nothing else, the prospect of a state funeral poses questions of protocol, like — who gets to represent the United States?

The question now "is will President Morsi attend his funeral?" said Akl. "Protocol says he should.

It met today and discussed details including the funeral procession, invitations, matters of foreign protocol, the role of the military and the service at St Paul's.

She meant the Savile tribute programme due to go out in the festive season, when schedules are as fixed as protocol at a Japanese royal funeral.

Protocol dictates permission for a ceremonial funeral must be sought from the monarch.

Protocol forbade her attending Disraeli's funeral (this would not be changed until 1965, when Elizabeth II attended the rites for the former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill) but she sent primroses ("his favourite flowers") to the funeral, and visited the burial vault to place a wreath of china blooms four days later.

This is less to do with protocol – although protocol prevented Queen Victoria from attending the 1881 funeral of Benjamin Disraeli, and m onarchs did not attend funerals at all until William IV's reign.