formal courtesy
Example Sentences
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The campaign began on April 6 when Mr. Brown paid a formal courtesy visit to Queen Elizabeth II, asking her to dissolve Parliament.
From New York Times • May 6, 2010
Thus it raised eyebrows recently�and provoked some snickers�when American Charg� d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the hands of the Press, II Benito received not even formal courtesy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a certain flavour of formal courtesy about them which Englishmen rarely practise, of which Irishmen of my generation, partly anglicised by their education, have lost the trick.
From Gossamer 1915 by Birmingham, George A.
The Duke of Kent, son of George III., and father of Queen Victoria, was then in Halifax, and received them with guarded and formal courtesy.
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
