Sentence examples for standards of courtesy from inspiring English sources

Our standards of courtesy are bound to our corporeal selves; freed from one we're freed from the other.

That the war over conflicting standards of courtesy and behavior is being fought on airliners isn't surprising, Ms. Rutledge said, because people feel a powerlessness boarding an airplane.

"There are people here this morning who are not educated to the Community Church standards of courtesy and impartiality," Mr. Lothrop said.

While certain standards of courtesy always apply (be punctual, treat everyone you meet with respect), your success may depend on the company's culture and the preferences of the people doing the hiring.

"I've always believed we should rise to the highest possible standards of courtesy and respect in responding on behalf of the government to the legitimate questions of the legislature," Bates said to the chamber.

A rather formal Englishman, a friend of ours who is giving some lectures at Harvard, took several of his shirts and stiff collars to a laundry in Cambridge the other day and was waited on by a teen-age girl whose high standard of courtesy is a thing of which her fellow-countrymen can all be proud.

Ordinary New Yorkers expect to be treated according to a simple standard of common courtesy and respect, and those of us with disabilities are no different.

But the Net, and associated advances in communications technology, could soon have a beneficial effect on government, as people begin to press for public services to be delivered or administered online, and then to demand the same standards of service speed, reliability, courtesy, innovation from their local or national governments as they do from Amazon.com (see survey).

It sets out standards of behaviour, including courtesy to clients, to which public servants should cleave.

We're shown to our table by a front-of-house manager who, by Chinese restaurant standards, is a model of courtesy.

We will be judged, then, by the standard of presence — the courtesy of acknowledging our surroundings.