Sentence examples for preserving civility from inspiring English sources

They were concerned more with preserving civility and harmony in their congregations than they were with human liberty or the evil of slavery.

He observed that Mr. Ajello, who was concerned with preserving civility in apartment life, generally gave more space to foyers than seemed necessary.

But Mr. Blair dignifies his opponents by grappling with their arguments in a way that helps preserve civility -- and that we Americans can learn from.

The need to preserve civility may explain why the poisoning that debilitated Mr Yushchenko during the election campaign, and scars him still, has not yet been publicly solved: some sort of Russian connection is widely assumed in Kiev.

We need to do our best to preserve civility in the public sphere, to uphold the norms of democratic discourse, even when or especially when they are under assault from extremists.

Imagine the world of possibility if we would listen most closely to the opinions least like our own, and preserve civility and respect when disagreeing.

Conte preserves the civility of that Italy which, as the writer Andrea di Robilant once said to me, before the advent of the absurd and sinister Silvio Berlusconi to politics, "is like la bella figura gone from class to crass".

The intersection of private lives and public spaces brings to the fore a second version of privacy: that it is a feature of the social contract one that every culture has negotiated for itself over time in order to preserve dignity, civility, and cohesion.

It's a homage to a group of eccentric English ladies who essentially adopted him, and who tried to preserve their own civility and Florence's treasures as war closed in around them.

But what Mr. Bush calls civility is less important than preserving the impartiality and independence of the judiciary, and the Senate's proper role in the advise and consent process.

Although there were later tensions between Scott and Shackleton, when their polar ambitions directly clashed, in public mutual civilities were preserved; Scott joined in the official receptions that greeted Shackleton on his return in 1909 after the Nimrod Expedition, and the two were exchanging polite letters about their respective ambitions in 1909 10.