Sentence examples for on a courtesy from inspiring English sources

"I prefer to leave it on a courtesy basis".

A later cable, in September 2009, marked sensitive, reports on a "courtesy call" paid by the US ambassador to Sweden, Matthew Barzun, on Sweden's deputy prime minister, Maud Olofsson.

We had just arrived home with such a score when Malik swung by on a courtesy call.

Surveillance video of the Sept. 18 robbery at a Food4Less in Santa Ana, California, allegedly shows the suspect, later identified as Antonio Delgado Juarez tooling around the store on a courtesy scooter for 15 minutes.

The prime minister is in Scotland's capital, for a courtesy call on the presiding officer, talks with the first minister - and a chance to launch the document once more.

One senior executive called the session on Wednesday "a courtesy meeting" and emphasized that "no show is going to come out of it".

The Sheikh personally visited every village in the country on horseback – a courtesy that seems to have been dispensed with for his subsequent wedding to Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, in 2004, which lasted a mere week.

Other times, when phases of a project are too far apart or when winter forces a halt to work, temporary pavement is put back on as a courtesy, so cars can use the road again for a while.

Costas said that none of his shows will focus entirely on baseball as a courtesy to his other employer, the MLB Network.

The last suggestion to put a real damper on terrorism is a courtesy from us in the media.

In the suburb of Pittsburgh where I grew up, if I pass a person walking on the street, a "courtesy comment" is customary.