Sentences with phrase «civility as»

I had the pleasure of attending an internal presentation at my firm today by two of our partners, Eugene Meehan, QC, and Scott Maidment, on the topic of «Civility as a Strategy in Litigation: Using It as a Tactical Tool.»

She gave me that unmistakable trespass look, with a thin veneer of civility as Justice Harvey Groberman of the British Columbia Court of Appeal would say.

However, it appears that no mention has been made on SLAW of Eugene's writing on this topic, including an earlier version of his paper «Civility as a Strategy in Litigation: Using It as a Tactical Tool» (and Eugene has promised to update his paper on his site as soon as he is able — as usual, he welcomes comments on the topic).

I don't see civility as undermining our ability to do that.

And while it's never appropriate to insult or attack judges, doing so doesn't impair civility as much as attacks on other lawyers, witnesses or the parties themselves.

Yet, the defense of Tom Robinson marks the moment in which Atticus intervenes this white civility as the ethics of justice.

It's not enough to teach or talk about civility as an abstract concept.

Statewide School - Parent - Community Partnership Model The Utah Civility and Community Initiative encourages school and community activities that highlight civility as a ground rule in our shared public discourse and strengthens, as a core value, the quality of our communities, state and nation.

I offer an apology if my bombast lacked civility as it must not interfere in the free exchange of evidence and ideas.

(The performance doesn't so much rob Stewart of his signature regal civility as put it in a frightening new context, though you better believe Saulnier gets some shock value out of hearing Captain Picard say a racial epithet.)

Persons can trivialize the civil religion through idol worshipping, Second, not civility as the natural laws of procedure but civility as merely etiquette can be elevated to sacred status, thus trivializing the civil religion by legalisms.

This is civility as in «Everybody shut up except us!»

I've spent a lot of energy over the years defending civility as a virtue.

As we renew our commitment to religious pluralism in the public square, we should embrace debate, welcome dissent, and encourage civility as we work together for the sake of the common good and of a country we are all unreservedly blessed to call our home.

Thank you for your civility as well.

While some people dismiss formal manners and civility as just a veneer, she views them in a more optimistic light: «the artifice as embellishment rather than disguise.

And having represented criminal defendants myself, I realize that they don't always understand the necessary niceties of, for example, shaking opposing counsel's hands or saying hello, and may sometimes view these civilities as a sign of disloyalty or a lack of zealousness.

Not exact matches

«We view co-workers as transitory ties, greeting them with arm's - length civility while reserving real camaraderie for outside work.»

Because as Scaramucci advises in the Big Think video: «I think you can really see people's intentions by the way they talk to other people and their level of civility.»

This includes being treated with respect and dignity, reducing conflict, improving cooperation and collaboration, and even going as far as enforcing civility (at Micrel I banned swearing, much to the consternation of the rough and rowdy semiconductor sales teams of the late twentieth century).

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

He and his wife miss what he described as the country's inherent civility and tolerance, its access to affordable health care.

The Standing Orders are intended to maintain decorum and civility in the Legislature as well as direct the proceedings in an orderly fashion.

And then the lack of «civility» was a reasonable question after it became clear that the shooter was not «political» as we think of the term.

As survivors of MacIntyre's moral catastrophe emerge from their Stone Age moral habitats, they will presumably cobble together Aristotle, the New Testament, and Thomas Aquinas to establish a new order of civility» and we will find again a coherent moral order.

This is a liberal web site and as you see, young liberals hate everybody and show no civility to anyone.

WITH SO MUCH FIGHTING IN WA AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN EGYPT THIS STORY PUTS A POSITIVE APPROACH AS HOW LIFE CAN BE SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN CIVILITY TAKES OVER.

Schools educated young males in the new civility, factories sublimated productive energies, and prisons were reconfigured as «penitentiaries» intended to lead them to internalize remorse.

Civility is always in short supply and one can readily agree that «we need to keep in mind the common humanity that we share with those with whom we disagree,» and that «we should never lose faith in the power of reason,» and that the Church should never be used «as a partisan political tool.»

But as long as we're honest about the meaning of our disagreement, which is ensured by intellectually honest people like you, there is no reason we can't find some civility in an agreement to disagree.

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

What I do find disconcerting is the fact that adults can't come to a site such as this and engage in heated, if not contentious debate, all the while maintaining a certain level of civility.

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

those of us who definitions of morality, civility and legality differ from yours ----- You draw your own definitions of morality as well, thanks for the admission.

You seem to want to draw your own lines as to acceptable and unacceptable behavior, but then criticize those of us who definitions of morality, civility and legality differ from yours.

To live by an ethic of civility requires a respectful engagement with the other, whether as fellow person or as fellow citizen.

As it usually goes on busy street corners, the conversations typically begin with civility.

But as I've been thinking about what it means to participate in a holy, set - apart kingdom, a kingdom in which even the greatest are called to be servants, I've come to appreciate the fact that the only way for such a kingdom to remain distinct in this culture is for love to transcend mere civility.

Though blacks» tutelage has not been entirely self - incurred, the link between liberation and enlightenment is just as real for us: the black nonviolent disobedient realizes his own freedom by accepting the constraints of universal moral laws, by maintaining civility under strong provocation even when others do not.

As for being out of the bounds of civility.

I aimlessly wane to please be it as a toad speaking frivolously toward a crowded civility of comely genitalia looming upon the disinterested cracks fondling fervently and with much duress their next mealtime suckers.

John Murray Cuddihy in The Ordeal of Civility reminds us how disruptive of Christian unity separation, as in «separation of church and state.»

These are reasonable, worthy concerns that we should be able to articulate with civility and boldness without fear of being judged as entitled, emotional, or selfish.

The civility doesn't come from god, but from oxytocin, as that is what ionfluences our brain.

But we must never require friendship as the price of civility, and the great majority of us who lack that gift nevertheless hold the same obligation of civility.

Civility entails treating fellow citizens as people of goodwill — which is a risky act of trust.

Cynicism is the enemy of civility: it suggests a deep distrust of the motives of our fellow passengers, a distrust that ruins any project that rests, as civility does, on trusting others even when there is risk.

Second, if there is a breakdown, as there has been this year, and speakers are disinvited or effectively forced to withdraw, no one should step into the breach.If you care about civility and procedure on campus, if you care about the college as an institution of higher learning, you should not reward bad behavior.

(Other speeches in the past, for example, had Obama as the one voice of civility in a climate of political incivility, or the one post-partisan in a world of partisanship.)

How do you dialog with one another with respect and civility when lifestyle decisions such as these can be so personal?