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comity

noun as in civility

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"There's a lot of comity here between a state and a federal court, and even on a federal issue, we have to respect state court rulings."

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Even now, we need to be sure of her professed commitment to strengthen the legal and economic foundations of working- and middle-class security and comity.

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Flav’s enthusiasm is not as staged, making news-grabbing moves like his guarantee to help American discus thrower Veronica Fraley pay her rent come off as legitimately generous and in the Games’ spirit of comity.

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Decades ago, right-wing political quacks like Newt Gingrich concluded that comity and compromise on the part of politicians made the government look too good, as if it could actually work.

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He said the step clashed with an international concept of the “comity of nations,” which recognizes that countries’ laws have territorial limits.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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