Sentence examples for matters of protocol from inspiring English sources

The act of 1935 was also to have introduced a federation of British India's provinces and the still autonomous princely states, but that institutional union of representative and despotic rule was never realized, since the princes were unable to agree among themselves on matters of protocol.

The Bureau of Barbarians in Constantinople handled matters of protocol and record keeping for any issues related to the "barbarians", and thus had, perhaps, a basic intelligence function itself.

Current protocol design processes include interaction with clinicians located at clinical research institutions, who give their expertise on fundamental matters of protocol design, such as the viability of the trial and the number of possible participants at their site.

But it is a dutiful inclusion, a matter of protocol.

However, the departing prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will attend as a matter of protocol.

The gesture was made unobtrusively, as if, in other circumstances, to address a subtle but essential matter of protocol.

I left office as a matter of protocol, to clear the decks for the new president's choice.

But "as a matter of protocol," he said, they have been referred to the agency's Office of Professional Responsibility.

As a matter of protocol, as Ferrari wrote to the FIA, the latter are in turn formally required to respond.

As a matter of protocol, the secretary of state usually steers clear of electoral politics.

Officials said the move was a matter of protocol and that the formal request had been made by the Palace.