When you go abroad, it is useful to learn at least some polite phrases in the local language.

Phrases are syntactical units.

Magdalena is very polite to me.

You should try to be more polite.

SW That's nice. Can you be polite?

That nurse is very kind and polite.

It isn't polite to stare at people.

It's not polite to point at others.

Japanese people are considered to be polite.

It's more polite to say thin than skinny.

The dentist is very polite to the patient.

The simplest example of this is in the polite request.

Use a dictionary to find the meanings of the phrases below.

They're very polite and they don't get so forward so quickly.

In Japan, it is polite to bow when one meets someone.

There's no need to be polite with this kind of person.

And my hosts in Pakistan said, Look, don't be too polite to us.

And it's the dilemma that this Chinese man faces, who's language is spoken by more people in the world than any other single language, and yet he is sitting at his blackboard, converting Chinese phrases into English language phrases.

And as you go through the path, you have to get more and more polite.

So the puzzle is, why are bribes, polite requests, solicitations and threats so often veiled?

If you make fun of our company again, we certainly won t be polite to you.

Creativity is the meme maker that puts slogans on our t shirts and phrases on our lips.

There are few phrases that pack a more concentrated dose of subject and symbol than the perfect punchline.

The meaning of phrases often depended upon a context that could extend through numerous paragraphs and even across several documents.

Even learning a few classic phrases will help with shopping, ordering a meal in a restaurant, or chatting on a taxi.

The nub of Article 55 lies in the phrases social progress and development and human rights and fundamental freedoms for all .

How do you put simple disruptive technologies, and the first of five phrases that I'm going to talk about in this talk?

The suggestion was also made that the word international should be inserted between the phrases must provide for and carriage by sea .

There are two phrases in square brackets in operative paragraph 5 good governance and proper management of public affairs and public property .

That suffering has been communicated by short words and phrases, such as Halabja, Anfal, mass graves, each one encapsulating horrendous suffering and injustice.

This is Billy. Billy is a polite young man, who always says please and thank you, studies hard, and treats others with respect.

This is a project that scans the world's newly posted blog entries every two or three minutes, searching for occurrences of the phrases I feel and I am feeling. And when it finds one of those phrases, it grabs the full sentence up to the period and also tries to identify demographic information about the author.

Galileo he had the Inquisition, so he had to be a little bit more polite his was, It s not in the middle, you know.

They're hiring them to get it done, get it on budget, be polite, and they're missing out on the real value of an architect.

I bet, in a couple of years, that phrases like coworking and couchsurfing and time banks are going to become a part of everyday vernacular.

He suggested stating in the commentary that the phrases place of business and conflicting mandatory rules could be defined by an REIO in a declaration.

Now language's subversive power has been recognized throughout the ages in censorship, in books you can't read, phrases you can't use and words you can't say.

Phrases and snippets taken out of context in what I call the highlighter version, which is the one favored by both Muslim fundamentalists and anti Muslim Islamophobes.

The ICRC believes that the phrases for the purposes of humanitarian demining and that might be subject to humanitarian demining operations should be deleted from paragraph 11.

Even today, we know that there are words we cannot use, phrases we cannot say, because if we do so, we might be accosted, jailed, or even killed.

This is a piece that every two or three minutes scans the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases I feel or I am feeling.

I found these rules out by comparing the statistics of four word phrases that appear more often in the most favorite TEDTalks as opposed to the least favorite TEDTalks.

The United States Department of the Army stated in a publication that such broad phrases in international law are in reality a reliance upon moral law and public opinion .

Cuba s dissidents will, of course, happily do without Western cocktail parties and polite conversation at receptions. This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.

Youth organizations are concerned that often used phrases such as the youth of today are the best educated generation ever may detract attention from the continuing need for high quality education.