Politely in example sentence

So let us speak frankly, facing a taboo, about what it means to be a senior woman leading effectively: it means that one will occasionally contradict a man, however politely; overrule a man, however courteously; disregard a man’s strategic advice, no matter how gently the decision is put; and tell a junior man, however tactfully, that he is not performing well enough.

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Everybody applauded politely.

But we need to get to a stage when you're an atheist and someone says, "Well you know, I did pray the other day," you politely ignore it.

Because you've agreed on 90 percent of things, because you have a shared view on so many things, and you politely differ.

Well, the options are, I'd say, these three: power renewables, and recognizing that they need to be close to country-sized; other people's renewables, so we could go back and talk very politely to the people in the top left-hand side of the diagram and say, "Uh, we don't want renewables in our backyard, but, um, please could we put them in yours instead?"

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