Sentences with phrase «out of politeness»

I assume that the Conservatives are staying quite quiet this week out of politeness for the labour conference

I assume that the Conservatives are staying quite quiet this week out of politeness for the labour conference, and I wonder if browne will disrespect that next week like he did last year.

not out of politeness, but because you really want to know.

Almost out of politeness, the bookies named other possible contenders including Angus Robertson, the SNP's successful election strategist, Alex Neil, the Scottish Health Secretary, and Derek Mackay, a local government minister.

Don't worry about staying out of politeness.

This compares to 47 % of women who offer out of politeness or a want to appear independent and 74 % who offer as a way of not feeling they have to hug or kiss their date or meet them again.

Because Chris has to suffer all these indignities in silence out of politeness, but you can tell exactly what he's thinking throughout.

The audience applauded at the end of each presentation, and, once the students were all done presenting, asked serious questions about the research — not simply out of politeness but because we had been engaged.

In all honesty, it was pretty rank and we weren't quite that desperate for a drink so we paid the 60 rupees, I drank a small glass out of politeness then we left.

That way, customers are less likely to hold off on saying «no» out of politeness.

Out of politeness, an exemption was given to religious people in the DSM for their delusion.

I have not found that «eat something 10 times and you'll start to like it» notion to be anything but wishful thinking (if that were true I'd adore olives, which are my # 2 most - loathed food after liver, but so many of my past friends and relatives loved olives that out of politeness I didn't pick them off the pizza or fish them out of the pasta sauce).

Taking bites, however, infuriates my siblings / grosses out my parents, so these days, out of politeness, I cut each potential sucker in half.

I never accepted treats from you out of politeness.

Out of politeness, I offered him the chocolate digestives first.

While not every Conservative stood and applauded Blair, David Cameron thought it right to applaud Blair, out of politeness and I don't see anything improper in that.

Rather than cluelessly accept Scotty's invitation to join them out of politeness, Kirk totally picks up what Scotty is throwing down.

They may, out of politeness, keep reading for a whole five pages, but they know pretty quickly.

The Chileans won and then were treated to a typical Colombian lunch that they probably choked down out of politeness, who knows what folk dishes were foisted on them — suckling pig, tamales, fritters, figs with caramel cream, or all of the above — and then they went back to their hotel to digest it while at the club the revelry went on, everyone getting drunker by the minute.

Out of politeness, and being only one of two customers, she chooses a book last borrowed in 1989.

In each of the photographs, the subjects cover their mouths — a trait which is presumed to be out of politeness.

Neutral and skeptical scientists frequently used the word «uncertainties» out of politeness, when referring to dubious methods and errors in the works of practitioners, associated with alarmism.