Unfamiliar politeness

To make one feel good about oneself.

I wouldn t have noticed how we, the suspects, are led with extreme politeness to defend our innocence and to denounce terrorism we, who have been more targeted by terrorism than any of those investigating us about it.

In the case of MEMS filters, it is not possible to trim the resonators outside of the filter because of the integrated nature of the device construction.

The pacifist Leo Tolstoy, in his novel War and Peace , regarded this pruning and tending of war as cynical.

Today, it sounds old fashioned to describe the university s purpose as being to cultivate people, as if it were a glorified finishing school.

Encourages the Secretary General to continue to refine the existing results based budgeting framework and to provide clearer financial information on all components of the missions

European competition policy, which successfully brought giant companies like Microsoft into line to promote competition, could help to turn Gazprom into a normal competitor, too.

Beneath a striking, star filled night sky, Khalid, a 77 year old Circassian great grandfather from Quneitra accompanied by his extended family, walks with a walking stick and politely refuses our offers of help with the large bag he carries on his back.

The proposal that was defeated was not sufficiently targeted at pruning back insolvent banks, but it will almost certainly not be the last word, regardless of how Congress now proceeds.

Indeed, for years the very goal of indigenous education in many countries was to civilize indigenous children by teaching them the language, culture and knowledge of the dominant group, which after the colonial era was that of the hegemonic nationality.

In fact, official documents have now even started questioning the legitimacy of the privatization of the leading Russian companies in the 1990 s, which has opened the way for discussions about revising the outcomes of these privatizations.

The future role of financial markets in disciplining budgetary policies under such a reformed regime depends to a major extent on the ability of the van Rompuy Task Force to define a crisis management mechanism to replace the EFSF.

The Committee would develop a programme of research focusing on refining and clarifying those issues that would permit elevating it to the level of a statistical standard, as well as a longer term research agenda covering those issues that are considered important but will not be resolved before 2010.

Public debate continues concerning not just the prevalence of domestic violence and strategies for addressing it, but also whether or not it is justifiable behaviour, tolerated and sometimes condoned as a man's right to discipline his wife or partner.