Sentence examples for on comity from inspiring English sources

Many buildings that have not yet been sold are owned and operated through partnerships so complex that they virtually depend on comity to be administered efficiently.

And the president who prides himself on comity lashed back at opponents who have filled the airwaves with talk of "death panels".

Mr. Nelson added that "a body like this runs on comity and common sense," and he said he worried that going nuclear would do serious damage to that atmosphere.

A spot in the chamber during the State of the Union is considered by some to be the equivalent of a seat at the Oscars in Hollywood, so one middle-school girl from South Carolina hit the jackpot when the congressman from her district, Representative Trey Gowdy,  invited her to sit with him after he read her essay on comity in Congress.

But Joshua Wolff, a lawyer for the city, said in a statement, "We are extremely pleased that the Circuit Court affirmed the lower court's dismissal on comity grounds, holding both that the parking surtax exemption afforded to Manhattan residents does not implicate any fundamental constitutional right and that state court is therefore the proper forum in which to address a case such as this".

"There is just a lack of comity on both sides".

One of them, Patti Murray of Washington State, was co-author of the compromise budget deal that produced a rare outbreak of comity on Capitol Hill last week, and you can't but feel the system would function a great deal better if more women, less confrontational and more inclined to collaborate, were around.

Perhaps he was lulled into a false sense of comity by his one on one meetings with the senators.

A result so inimical to both majority rule and individual civic equality was bound to inflict damage on the fabric of comity.

Members of the Senate pride themselves on a tradition of comity between the parties, but these days it's more of a myth than they freely admit.

"When she said, 'You have a lot of good points, you have a special concern about New York that I want to work with you about,' that is a wonderful invitation to pull down your amendment and engage in a discussion based on that kind of comity.