Sentence examples for polite statements from inspiring English sources

As a result, Mr. Ashcroft was careful to answer questions with polite statements couched in general principles.

He dispersed the encroaching crowd of reporters with a polite statement of policy: "I don't talk before games".

His vituperative response went far beyond the polite statement issued by the channel, which expressed respectful disagreement.

The Taliban have urged the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to turn a delay in signing a long-term security deal with the United States into outright rejection, in an unusually polite statement directed at a leader the insurgents have repeatedly denounced as a US puppet.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders in the region have released polite press statements this morning congratulating Barack Obama and saying they look forward to working with him in his second term.

It was a polite gesture by the Dalai Lama to his host, the AEI, and not a political statement.

A polite argument ensues.

A polite, simple statement is probably best.

Making politics polite again.

This was the sort of statement — polite, appropriate, focused outside himself — that had been beyond Leo's reach for years.

In a polite but pointed statement, Hubert Nienhoff, the chief executive of gmp-Architekten, the German firm that designed the stadium, said that although the "precise planning and implementation that Germans are credited with" might be respected in Brazil, they are "not always compatible with the existing pragmatic day-to-day business" in the country.