Unfamiliar politeness

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.

That, too, would not have been unusual.

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

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.

LONDON Central Africa has lately been attracting some unfamiliar attention.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Over time, what had been an exception became routine the possibility of consecutive terms or alternating re election of presidents in countries with little democratic tradition.

) 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.

c) Becomes clear to the person submitting the report that the proposed or concluded transaction obviously does not follow an economic or regular objective

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.

When American experts recently examined the forensic image of the hard drive, they made a startling but for Turkey all too familiar discovery.

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.

In 1859, he founded the Chemical News , a science magazine which he edited for many years and conducted on much less formal lines than was usual for the journals of scientific societies.

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 ...

Well, it is quite typical for us to be leading a culture oriented debate in Germany about Islam and Judaism at the times when we should actually be carrying out political analysis or even a critical review of the war.

We also note that the alleged bandwagon and underdog effects are mutually contradictory, and further stress the unusually long period of 23 days required by the law.

Additionally, the sub unit is no longer able to provide dedicated service to major conferences and, as is customary, to the various offices which require dedicated service during the General Assembly.

Granted, President George W. Bush was well received by all his hosts in the five countries he visited, with traditional Latin American hospitality and cordiality.