How To Use Comity In A Sentence

  • From these conversations we can be led to common action - for our shared environment, for human rights, for the simple enjoyment of comity.
  • Again Magnusson says that Scott tried ‘to manipulate history to suit the Enlightenment views: the 1707 Act of Union had brought Scotland into the comity of civilised nations’.
  • No, the story makes clear that the majority of Canadians still oppose the war; this has more to do with the long tradition of Canadian-American comity.
  • It would also raise the status of India in the comity of nations.
  • BTW- my "mudder" says the reason I got so much attention was not a result of my comity, but rather that I was a "rotten,rotten" little kid who she needed to strap down lest I reek havoc. This Explains a Lot, Actually
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  • Working together, we shall ensure that this ancient, sacred land of ours regains its rightful place in the comity of nations.
  • Always my a pair comity is constant.
  • It is about state comity and cooperation, and mutual respect.
  • It is upon this comity of nations that international legal assistance rests.
  • It is, in essence, similar in approach to the agreement concluded with the United States, and takes the same approach towards comity.
  • No doubt, they tend to promote more comity in public debates through prior association.
  • They’re not the Senate, thank God, the over-riding need for Senators to have comity is well known and oft described here. The GOP/White House ‘discussion’ on health care, simplified. | RedState
  • Where the ground relied on is unconscionable conduct in a foreign court the principle of comity requires that the jurisdiction be exercised only with great caution.
  • The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
  • The reason that we and other countries have such rules is to respect comity between nations.
  • Comity creates an expectation that the courts of other countries will collaborate in holding the parties to the terms of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.
  • Interracial comity is stronger in the field than in the garrison, stronger on duty than off, and stronger on post than in the world beyond the base … The Military
  • They are the important considerations of comity and convenience.
  • The comity between Canada and the United States is testimony to the strength of liberal peace.
  • From them we seek no advice or comity, and to them we will give no quarter.
  • It would be nice if we could have some civility and comity for awhile; this is exhausting and mostly unproductive.
  • Considerations of comity arise in the one case but not in the other.
  • FRANKEN: You know it's -- the Senate is an institution that prides itself on what it calls comity, to be distinguished from comedy, but comity, which means intense politeness no matter what, no matter how insincere. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2006
  • France was made to disgorge the enormous gains she had made under Napoleon, but there was no attempt to reduce her to a second-rate power and she was speedily welcomed back into the comity of nations.
  • But judicial comity requires restraint, based on mutual respect not only for the integrity of one another's process, but also for one another's procedural and substantive laws.
  • But comity is more a custom than an obligation, and neither the states nor the federal government are compelled to extend the courtesy to every couple wed abroad.
  • Therefore we cannot fit Greece into the jig-saw puzzle which we call the comity of nations. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
  • Only such a place, free from its terrorists and morally corrupt people would deserve a place in the comity of modern nations.
  • Comity, however, is an ill-defined concept, and for that reason can be arbitrary in its application.
  • It is important to study the Weimar history, another time when centrists tried accomodation, comity, incrementalism, and meliorism enabled and abetted the murder of millions. Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
  • In calling for civility, courage, compassion, and character, he spoke to the desire of many for greater national comity and citizen accountability.
  • The principle of comity is that when one court exercising proper jurisdiction renders an opinion concerning a specific case, then that opinion is binding on other courts to which this same case (same parties, same facts, same issues) is re-presented to a different court under some pretext, except where the second court is exercising appellate review over the first decision. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
  • Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argument The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
  • This is the cruel reality of what passes for an " international community " and the comity of nations…
  • Moneyrunner: Comity takes another pratfall at the Kirkland household with this compelling argumentArthur then makes the case for partisan posturing rather than principle. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional
  • In the name of comity, the White House went along with the headstrong senator. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
  • France was made to disgorge the enormous gains she had made under Napoleon, but there was no attempt to reduce her to a second-rate power and she was speedily welcomed back into the comity of nations.
  • Always my a pair comity is constant.
  • The issue is fundamentally one of the fitness of things - of the comity of my learned friends appearing on both sides of the table, as it were, in respect of what is fundamentally the same factual matrix.
  • Then Ansari, a member of the parliament took the floor and talked about the "fact finding" committee and the fact that everyone in that comity is an Ahmadinejad supporter and therefore questioned the legitimacy of the committee. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Thursday June 18)
  • Promote international cooperation and respect for comity among the Courts.
  • The principle of comity will gain increasing importance as the courts of several jurisdictions must deal with parallel litigation that impacts upon the citizens across those several jurisdictions.
  • Tile D stanza be happiness festival that like this an alive with love with comity.
  • He doesn't want compromise and comity.
  • The ‘act of state doctrine’, the doctrine of ‘foreign governmental compulsion’, and the principle of comity all serve to limit the extraterritorial application of the law.
  • That at the heart of it is an international comity, reinforced perhaps by international law, that we respect each other's right to govern the internal economy of their ships.
  • Unlike other countries where sectarian conflicts have flared among members of different religious groups, religious comity in the country is enviable.
  • In dismissing this official requirement of a sister state, it would deliberately and openly flout international law and comity.
  • Well in some respects this is a welcome back to the comity of cricket nations for South Africa.
  • Like Steve Martin once said, comity is not pretty! Matthew Yglesias » Defending Mitt
  • Still she scorns the producers for excluding a black presence in a film, which she says was ‘meant to restore America's sense of comity, joint endeavor, and high moral purpose.’
  • Secondly, that the undertaking was issued for reasons of comity between nations.
  • Consequently, the qualification reflects the need for comity between the institutions of government.
  • I think the notions of international comity are sufficiently flexible to allow a development in that direction.
  • But it is important to recognise the nature of the rules of comity in public international law.
  • Tile D stanza be happiness festival that like this an alive with love with comity.
  • But judicial comity requires restraint, based on mutual respect not only for the integrity of one another's process, but also for one another's procedural and substantive laws.
  • The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity.
  • Any failure to drop the filibuster or any other rule that prevents implementation of needed responses to major crises is a deliberate sacrifice of the good of the country in the name of comity with crazy people. Matthew Yglesias » The New Filibuster
  • When this happens our courts are not considered to act in breach of comity.

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