Sentence examples for once respectful from inspiring English sources

Then Nadal finally beat Federer at Wimbledon too, and then at the Australian, where Federer famously picked up his runner-up trophy and looked at the assembled reporters and burst into tears, causing Nadal to put an arm around him, the young Spaniard at once respectful and consoling, and murmur something private into his ear.

Quite naturally, I adopted a vocal tone at once respectful and authoritative.

One bright thing: Japanese voters, once so respectful of authority, now appear quick to vote the bums out.

This is relatively new in the English shires, once assiduously respectful of authority.

Staff call customers and one another "sir" and "mom", which is at once casual and respectful in the Philippines.

And it traced, in miniature, the arc of the Republican presidential race, once so sedately respectful, now anything but.

"Once you respect time," he said, "I believe that you show you have a lot of things you are respectful of".

Still, he seemed to want to have it both ways, to be rude and respectful at once, tweeting on Dec. 24, 2012: "My last tweets felt too wrong.

"It's always going to be a difficult fixture but hopefully we've come out of it having once again been very respectful".

The only arguable weak link is the Madonna-featuring 'Me Against the Music', but in this context what once looked like a respectful passing of the baton now seems like an unconditional surrender of pop Queendom to its rightful heir".

Even though you've set up ground rules at the outset and developed a respectful classroom environment, once a hot topic emerges you need to continue to watch for classroom tone.