' Richard would be polite--he'd say, 'Thank you very much'--and the meeting was over.
During the 25-minute address, the audience was mostly polite -- giving their guest light applause at various moments.
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Participants making a full smile performed better than the polite-smile group, but the difference wasn't statistically significant and needs to be studied further, she says.
In this intimate setting Angela Merkel might find herself under some very polite post-prandial pressure.
This is not a battle to be won in polite country-club and cocktail-party conversations.
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The removal of content usually involves polite take-down requests that occasionally escalate into cease-and-desist letters and legal threats when necessary, says the company's chief executive, Michael Fertik.
It also highlighted an offer letter he wrote to Austrian actor Oskar Werner for the title role in the film and a "very polite hand-written inability letter" from Audrey Hepburn, in which she said she had decided not to work for a while, but asked if he would consider her "again sometime".
Private banks like to employ teams of polite, well-groomed, desperately upperly-mobile sales lackeys to service clients.
"They were remarkably polite, self-disciplined and calm and had a good attitude to learning, " she said.
After his arrest at the scene, the gunman was polite and co-operative with police, the documents show.
Likewise Munger's blunt and not-so-polite responses to stupid questions were entertaining.
At the bottom, with no violations, are 21 diverse countries including not just the ever-polite U.K., Japan and Canada, but also some developing countries like Burkina Faso, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, and Panama.
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But there is also a prevalent attitude call it religious correctness with which genuine toleration is easily confused: a polite and well-meaning reluctance to engage believers in the sort of robust clash of ideas that might discomfit them.
In addition to signing a polite yet firm non-disclosure agreement, Moffat asked us to not reveal certain details about the episode.
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The audience here in the hall has agreed to be polite and attentive -- no cheering, no booing, or outbursts of any sort.
But this strategy risks making Mr Poizner appear negative, especially if the polite and more issues-focused Mr Campbell is actually the one to beat.
The call for effective, polite, and spot-on service will only increase.
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Now, if the real plan, which no one can mention in polite circles at G-20 meetings, is to weaken the dollar, then QE2 just might work at doing that.
For a generation that's supposed to have forgotten how to be polite, this kid--who was so frustrated with school that he attacked his teacher--was proof that young Japan is still pretty decent.
But even when the east Europeans have departed, debating the merits of immigration will no longer be off-limits in polite society.
They all started off with meeting a nice, polite gentleman and finished off - as I nearly did, twice - dead, because they believed he was a nice person until their time came to be his prisoner.
Instead, financial reform became a slightly more polite repeat of the health-care-reform brawl: the Republicans threatened filibusters, the Democrats threatened all-nighters, and thousands of lobbyists prowled the Capitol, charging their Wall Street clients more than a billion dollars.
Parents are more likely to have to explain to their children the etiquette of talent booking than anything dirty, and if you're not prepared to tell your kid about why it isn't polite to cancel a late-night guest at the last minute, I guess I can't speculate on what other conversations might prove difficult.
Anti-Catholic prejudice was rife in polite English society until surprisingly recently: countless families can tell tales of scandals or feuds triggered by a mixed Anglican-Catholic marriage, up to the 1960s or 1970s.
And no, serving spoon is used only in the strictest settings with strangers or acquaintances, or when you want to look neat and polite, or in the more-well-mannered families.
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Eighty-eight percent of respondents in our study reported that people are less polite on social media than they would be in a face-to-face interaction.
His new order amounts to requiring -- on penalty of prosecution -- that CIA interrogators be polite.
They would make polite contacts and then take discreet cross-holdings in each other's companies to fend off hostile bids and shore up existing management.
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