Unfamiliar politeness

That, too, would not have been unusual.

LONDON Central Africa has lately been attracting some unfamiliar attention.

He's accustomed to traveling.

Ceilidhs are also common in the city's halls.

He has the habit of reading the newspaper during meals.

I'm not used to working outside.

He is used to this, he comes to call on me all the time.

The discovery is the result of a strategic policy maintained through successive Brazilian administrations, something unusual in Latin America.

An abundance of checked exceptions, required interfaces, and the implementation of the bean class as an abstract class were unusual and counter intuitive for programmers.

He does it smoothly, with his palms and not his fists, as we do to communicate.

) The show features an unusual style of storytelling, often starting with a scene at the end of the story or sometimes in the middle and filling in the gaps with flashbacks.

Last year, the advisory opinion on Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory garnered an unusual amount of media attention.

The geography of the Netherlands part of the European is unusual in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes.

This is very strange for me, because I m not used to doing this I usually stand on the other side of the light, and now I'm feeling the pressure I put other people into. And it's hard ...

Answering a common response made by top Saudi officials that it is up to society to decide on this issue, the declaration states

And in the first session, they all said, This is not bribery, what we are doing. This is customary there.

But Microsoft s ambiguous at best behavior is part of a pattern.

The geopolitical opportunity implied by inclusion of the map has not been lost on America, which is why the US, somewhat unusually, has made another effort to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention.

By contrast, a higher growth rate would require fewer golf breaks for salarymen and significant immigration in a nation that is unaccustomed to foreign intrusion and different cultural habits.

This young group would play a very different style that is custom to the traditional Germany style of play.

Business as usual meaning no business at all is simply not an option.

Africans and Indians, as usual, South Americans, and Eastern Europeans in particular are on our buy list.

Official bankruptcy, a regular occurrence, required prolonging maturities on state debt and reducing interest payments.

However, in the years that it does not rain as much as usual, a drought might result.

The Airbus A320 with 143 passengers and crew on board approached the landing at higher speeds than normal and carried out an unusual low altitude orbit in an attempt to correct the approach.

Since the Royal Decree of 1837 never received an official translation, the use of the Dutch version of the motto is customary rather than official.

Let me conclude by expressing, as usual, my sincere appreciation to the Government of Austria, which continues to be a most gracious host to the IAEA.

This is a typical African hospital. We can't depend on the elites they go to USA, Germany, U.K. for treatment. Unbelievable.

So when you saw him make a ridiculous edit to the page about me, you think, oh, this is obviously just going to degenerate into rubbish.

Ahmed Ahmed is a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and tours all across the US and Europe.

This ban may take up to three years to take effect because it is such a social dish in Chinese culture.

Its commander, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, whose tenure in office was recently, and unusually, extended for an additional three years, was alone among Pakistan s senior leaders in visiting the flood affected areas and showing concern about the suffering.

I'm used to thinking of the TED audience as a wonderful collection of some of the most effective, intelligent, intellectual, savvy, worldly and innovative people in the world.

By contrast, a higher growth rate would require fewer golf breaks for salarymen and significant immigration in a nation that is unaccustomed to foreign intrusion and different cultural habits. Are the Japanese really ready to accept such a cure?

At Townhall.com and LibertyCentral.org, for example, explanations of the Constitution sit uneasily next to articles urging citizens to take action against the construction of a mosque at the Twin Towers site in New York.

The Big Bang of 1986, which de regulated financial services, made risky behavior in the City the norm.

Until then, however, it is business as usual which includes one of the accused, Kenyatta, vying for the presidency.

Reports on prison conditions had alleged that pre trial detainees were held together with convicted criminals juveniles, men and women were often not separated in prison, health provision was minimal and shackling was commonplace.

The great artist, then in her 90s, arrived at Gimpo Airport and a reporter asked her a typical question What do you have to do to become a great dancer?

When my little kids were little they're all grown, now I have grandkids I used to go in and sit on the side of their bed, and I used to watch my kids sleep.

There is now a regular season for discussing drugs in sports, one that arrives every year with the Tour de France.

A typical mistake in evaluating manufacturing performance is to look solely at output or productivity without examining job creation.

The PLA s growing political clout has been manifest in the sharpening power struggle within the Party. In recent weeks, an unusual number of senior military officers have published articles in official newspapers calling for Party discipline and unity, and alluding to the military s role in containing the infighting.

In his own way, though, he is an engaging, polite man, hip to contemporary cultural icons, and even given to singing at public occasions with wry lyrics and verses.