Sentence examples for manners count from inspiring English sources

In France, which has only four Muslim schools, some of the country's 8,847 Roman Catholic schools have become refuges for Muslims seeking what an overburdened, secularist public sector often lacks: spirituality, an environment in which good manners count alongside mathematics, and higher academic standards.

But Ms. Negley said that her favorite dispenser of largess was an elderly woman who, after her husband had added a gratuity to their charge, pressed a $5 bill into her hand and said, "This is just for you -- manners count!" JAMES BARRON with Enid Nemy and Adam Nagourney.

If good fortune or good genes means you are among the lucky few to find an escape route then you face a choice: to "go along to get along", mind your manners, count your blessings and hide in the comfort of the Australian dream; or to infuse your success with an indignation and a righteousness that will demand this country does not look away from its responsibilities and its history.

Old fashioned manners count; and they are in short-supply.

That Mr Kukes, a Soviet-era émigré, had an American passport and western manners counted for nothing.

Whenever depositing cash, make sure the notes are arranged in a proper manner, count them twice if you have to, to make sure the numbers are correct as filled in the invoice.

Appearance and manner counted, but the contrast wasn't really so stark.

The fact that Cameron may be a nice chap or have an easy manner counts for less than you may think.

At one point, Ms. Mannering counted the number of schoolmates in four graduating classes who had died from overdoses, her mother recalled.

Subsequently a grid with 250-μm unit length was superimposed and microscopic fields corresponding to 0.0625 μm2 were assessed in a random initiation, systematic manner counting fibre profiles and fibre profiles with internal (blue) nuclei.

A family which had Greek names (even if it had Egyptian names as well), which talked and wrote Greek and had learnt something of Greek literature, which followed the Greek tradition in manners, would count as belonging to the privileged race; those who talked Egyptian and lived in the native way would count as belonging to the subject race.