As our social structures grew more complex, we developed more elaborate ways to identify members of our tribes such as manners of speech, clothing, body piercings, ID cards and so forth.
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Since the factional warfare reignited on Monday, a multitude of Palestinians have been killed, many in particularly gruesome manners such as the execution of wounded fighters in hospital beds, various kneecappings, and the tossing of a member of the Presidential Guard from the top of an eighteen story building.
Parties invoke the Convention in different contexts and manners, such as by participating in meetings and conferences, within the framework of cultural or trade agreements.
Cancelling a meeting at such a high level is a rare breach of diplomatic manners.
Ambitious young men during this period, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, adopted the manners of the elite.
There were a few investors, Soros among them, who either invested their own money using more complex strategies or who were willing to take the money of other such high net worth investors and manage that money in similarly complex manners.
The trouble with such views, usually based on anecdote rather than evidence, is that with manners and behaviour they can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In such situations, we have to look deeply within ourselves and decide if compromising our manners might be worth it for the sake of another person.
There are long-term trends which threaten to undermine good manners, the report says: busy lives in dense and transitory communities make civility harder and new technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have developed too fast for codes of acceptable behaviour to develop.
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