One step forward is a step towards civility.

That will require a spirit of compromise, civility and discipline.

With due respect to H.E. Mr. Atoki Ileka, his right of reply went beyond the bounds of civility.

We will need to work efficiently, with civility, discipline and a readiness to compromise for the greater good.

They even gather together in such groups as the Counter Vandalism Unit Civility, Maturity, Responsibility to just clean up the pages.

Europe may not be a source of economic inspiration, but it still makes people dream. It is perceived as a model of civility.

He never had a chance. Palestinian rivals, both from his own Fatah party and from the Islamists of Hamas, as well as the Israelis, perceived Abbas s civility as weakness.

They are issues that each and every one of us has a duty to resolve together, in the spirit of the best traditions of the United Nations transparency, civility and mutual respect.

Like any market, however, the marketplace of ideas needs regulation in particular, its participants should be bound by norms of honesty, humility, and civility. Moreover, every idea trader should adhere to these principles.

Civility in politics is not simply political confectionery. A leader who respects his or her opponents is more likely to earn respect himself than one who doubts their patriotism and resents their criticism.

Surprisingly, for such an extensive, cynically efficient cluster of humanity, the city displayed surprising civility and solidarity during and after the attacks. It immediately regained its strength, its sense of humor, and its industriousness.

The welcome return to civility is not, therefore, a return to mutual trust. After all, the test of alliance does not lie in praising agreements, but in thrashing out disagreements in a spirit of cooperation.

For every word that Krugman publishes, he must henceforth commit to having first read at least a hundred words by other writers. I cannot guarantee that reading more widely will teach him honesty, humility, and civility.

While Obama would likely restore civility and politeness to transatlantic discourse, the sources of friction are more profound. The geo political interests of Europe and America have been drawing apart, and may well continue to do so, no matter who is president.

I feel extremely fortunate and honored that the start of my formal education coincided with Mandela s re emergence in African politics. His patience, civility, and politics of reconciliation provided me a better example of democracy and good governance than any civics class could have done.

With Gaza poised on the brink of civil war, pity poor Mahmoud Abbas, who took over as president of the Palestinian Authority two and a half years ago, after the death of Yasser Arafat. An academic by profession, Abbas has tried mightily to lead the Palestinian people with civility, adherence to democratic principles, and public disdain for violence.

It is perceived as a model of civility. Whatever their other disagreements, Chinese and Japanese concur on one point if Asia today, with its rising nationalist tensions, evokes Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, it is precisely because Asia has not embarked on a reconciliation process such as that which enabled France and Germany to transcend their centuries old rivalry.

But the intensity of opposition in America to Bush runs deeper than any single issue. There is a growing recognition that the values he and his administration reflect are the antithesis of what America has long stood for the values of an open society, in which differences of view are freely debated within a culture of civility and mutual respect for the rights of all.

Li, an avid reader of world history and literature, has apparently not taken to heart the lesson that so many Chinese have learned, through great personal tragedies, since 1949. The core values of China s government are not informed by the humane civility of Tang or Song poets, but by the twisted dialectics of Marxism Leninism and the amoral militaristic tradition of a party that still cherishes its often brutish and violent habits of governance.