Sentence examples for rules of comity from inspiring English sources

But many Senate Republicans now are newly elected, deeply conservative members who have less regard for the old rules of comity and respect for elders.

What all this comes down to is the principle of comity among courts.

That's because, as a Congressional Research Service report on the practice says, the Senate used to be ruled by "traditions of comity, courtesy, reciprocity, and accommodation".

But the city saw an important principle at stake, too: maintaining the delicate balance of comity between neighbors.

A result so inimical to both majority rule and individual civic equality was bound to inflict damage on the fabric of comity.

If Republicans unilaterally void a rule they themselves have employed in the past, they will break the back of comity in the Senate.

There are well established principles of comity between parliament and the courts and the House of Commons has resolved that the sub judice rule applies to proceedings which are active and they shall not be referred to in any motion, debate or question.

"There is just a lack of comity on both sides".

The two candidates abandoned any past pretenses of comity.

And if that's missing... " There remains a veneer — badly chipped — of comity.

Given the lack of comity in the current Senate, that arrangement could easily fall apart.