Sentence examples for maintain comity from inspiring English sources

It's possible that Levin may just be trying to maintain comity within his committee, but looming over everything is that a party-line vote on cloture won't be enough to get Hagel confirmed.

These should prevent them from going over the left edge of the party while maintaining comity in a party that will need to unify after a spirited primary.

The protagonist like the filmmaker who shadows him throughout reveals a society that maintains its comity through a willful, officially sustained concealment.

(Obligatory mature qualification: I of course decry any breakdown in comity and collegiality and civil discourse in the workplace, and urge all young people to maintain decorum and respect others, to be tolerant of opposing viewpoints, to seek compromise, and to not punch each other out in spit-flying scrums).

Maintain, maintain, maintain.

But the city saw an important principle at stake, too: maintaining the delicate balance of comity between neighbors.

The risks would still be considerable, but some of the most daunting — regional upheaval, renewed terrorist fanaticism, severe damage to the system of international comity and trust that maintains order in most of the world — could be markedly reduced.

"Comity!" Senator Biggs says.

Comity is hard to achieve.

Gone is the interparty comity.

That comity is now history.