Sentence examples for polite relations from inspiring English sources

He was known for going to bed at 9 p.m., regularly retreating to his ranch in Texas and having distant if polite relations with Capitol Hill.

Ray Callaway, a plant community ecologist at the University of Montana in Missoula, adds that the polite familial relations may sour if the soil conditions worsen and it's every plant for itself.

Making politics polite again.

The conference was designed to foster the restarting of talks to get North Korea to give up its weapons, and to give a polite gloss to the testy relations between the two countries.

Stuart left Parramatta on terms that polite society call cold and relations have only got frostier with subsequent claims from the Raiders coach that he played a part in Parramatta's rebuild, an assertion that doesn't stand up to a whole lot of rigour.

Mr Monti, anxious to preserve transatlantic relations, was far too polite to ask this question in his own defence.

You don't want to sever relations, so maintain a polite and cordial relationship without divulging too much information.

The word used by the German foreign ministry is "gebeten", which is certainly more polite than the "bestellt" used in relation to the US ambassador on 24 October.

Modern market societies, Smith and Hume thought, made men more reasonable, even more "polite," but neither of them supposed that commercial relations provided all the values that men needed to live by.

The dreaded "Chopsticks", and any close relation to it, is usually banned in polite households.

Trump's tweet was conspicuously polite ― contrasting with his repeated criticism of China's relations with North Korea and his claim that Beijing is fabricating "the concept of global warming".