Word: courteously
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...practice, this means more than just courteous gestures. At almost every stage, Obama has tried to avoid blunt confrontation in favor of something more cooperative. He stopped short of offering an unabashed defense of human rights the way Hillary Clinton did on her 1995 visit to China or a hard-line demand for democracy the way former Vice President Dick Cheney did in Lithuania in 2006. Instead, he has sought at every meeting to focus on common ground, hoping for what he once described as a clearing away of "old preconceptions or ideological dogmas" so that nations will be more...
...woman went to a HUPD officer to ask permission to take a picture, then returned to the statue and demanded that she be allowed to photograph John Harvard without the neos in the picture. Being courteous, well-bred young men and women, they obliged...
...woman went to a HUPD officer to ask permission to take a picture, then returned to the statue and demanded that she be allowed to photograph John Harvard without the neos in the picture. Being courteous, well-bred young men and women, they obliged...
...like the man ... He always struck me as a very genuine sort of guy, a very courteous and a very old-fashioned person." - Geoff Andrew, the National Film Theatre's programmer, who has met and interviewed Polanski many times. The Guardian, July...
...avoid criticizing McKiernan. He told the four-star general that his Army career was effectively over during a face-to-face meeting in Afghanistan last week. "This was a kick in the teeth, but McKiernan took it extraordinarily well," a senior Pentagon official said. Other military officials were less courteous. "I still can't figure out why they put an armored guy with no Afghan experience in charge," one said. A second senior official said, "Dave McKiernan is clearly part of the Army's old guard - he led troops in [1991's] Desert Storm, for pete's sake...