Sentence examples for procedural nicety from inspiring English sources

On Monday, during the opening session of the conference, Mr. Conrad loudly interrupted what was supposed to be a procedural nicety — the reading of the rules — to say that he wanted to make a change.

Kevin Conrad, a representative of Papua New Guinea known for admonishing the United States for slowing things down at negotiations in Bali in 2007, interrupted what was supposed to be a procedural nicety, the reading of the rules.

Such procedural niceties carried little weight with the conservative activists backing Mr. Cruz, and the conservative advocacy groups egging them on.

In the end, Stalky heads for India, where his deviousness and disregard for procedural niceties turn out to be just the trick for running the empire.

This is because the question at issue is not merely whether the EPA observed the relevant procedural niceties or properly exercised its authority on the margin.

True, a hypothetical Libyan or Iraqi court might not care for such procedural niceties, but that makes all the more baffling our government's opposition to the emerging International Criminal Court, where rigorous fair trial standards would prevail.

The twentieth century's pretensions to humanity end in mass incarceration and solitary confinement, where men are kept alive for years and subjected to procedural niceties while the state waits for the morning when it can paralyze and poison them.

This retrospective, first-person point of view necessitates certain procedural niceties: "Most of what I know about my mother's experiences in Italy I know from her directly," Oliver writes.

This Court should not allow the administration of criminal justice to be thus frustrated or unreasonably delayed by such a fragmentation of the critical issue through procedural niceties made solely in the hope of avoiding a controlling decision on a question of the first magnitude.

Democrats get hung up on procedural niceties because they're not ideologically unified, but Republicans are, and when they want something done and the rules get in the way, they fire the Senate parliamentarian and put one in place who will give them the interpretation they need.This may be true, but if so, it's intolerable.

One person's procedural niceties and due process are another's never-ending pontificating.