Certain vexatious questions of diplomatic etiquette were settled once and for all.

We're obligated to abide by a certain diplomatic etiquette.

The question showed concern that stopped short of outrage at the violation of diplomatic etiquette.

"It is a breach of diplomatic etiquette."

It is diplomatic etiquette that each lady who sends me flowers shall reserve at least one dance for me.

However, diplomatic etiquette must be observed.

Diplomatic etiquette, though, has usually discouraged shouting America's enemies list from the White House rooftop.

Mr. Kirchner makes no apologies for any breach of diplomatic etiquette or his distaste for foreign policy.

At that meeting, Ayalon defiantly violated several rules of diplomatic etiquette, that eventually led to diplomatic scandal.

Really, Commander Sisko, I had thought Starfleet officers had more of an education in diplomatic etiquette than that.

Mr. Levy went on and on until Mr. Baker, in a rare breach of diplomatic etiquette, started to stare at his watch.

Over the last week, as President Bush pinged from country to country and prime minister to president, he was in some senses the epitome of diplomatic etiquette.

A little group of Emperor penguins huddled on a floe watched us go, bowing sedately as though to hide the joy they felt at our departure in diplomatic etiquette.

To the Burmese, then under King Bodawpaya, the resumption was on equal terms, and they considered the exchange of presents as part of diplomatic etiquette, not as tribute.

While their husbands' verbal jousting is seen by Soviet-watchers as normal, Mrs. Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan are said to be waging a cold war of diplomatic etiquette.

Even when China opposes American policies, it is rare for a sitting official to cast aspersions on an American president by name, a step often considered a breach of diplomatic etiquette.

Ukraine's embattled president, Leonid Kuchma, was ritually humiliated at the tail end of this week's expanded summit meeting of NATO, in a deft exercise in diplomatic etiquette.

Corps of Diplomats (COD) is a professional organization that seeks to advance the intellectual capabilities of its members by coming up with projects that will increase their knowledge on diplomatic etiquette and protocol.

He was noted for his excessive zeal against Catholics when he was the sheriff, resulting in a breach of diplomatic etiquette when he stormed a private residence hosting the Portuguese ambassador for mass.

That statement sounded like conventional diplomatic etiquette but for the fact that Mr. Putin declined to dwell on disagreements about the ABM Treaty or the promise or danger of a missile shield, and he demonstrated a warmth toward Mr. Bush.

Regular visits might have been deemed inappropriate given that Confederation Navy career officers were supposed to renounce any national ties when they walked through the academy entrance; for a First Admiral to display any undue interest would have been a completely unacceptable breach of diplomatic etiquette.

Mr. De Gucht, "evidently having forgotten diplomatic etiquette" sat with "his foot on the table, in the presence of women," asked that Dictaphones be turned off, and suggested that the journalists were dressed in red because they were from Rossiskaya Gazeta, the Russian government's newspaper.

The handful who had a chance to quiz the Iranian president went out of their way, within the limits of diplomatic etiquette, to make clear to Mr. Ahmadinejad that they thought his characterizations of Israel and the Holocaust were repugnant and that his nuclear strategy was self-defeating.

The United States has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of these prisons, but for Europe's leaders to declare that the United States, Poland and Romania are all lying would be a huge breach of diplomatic etiquette, especially in the absence of any proof that the press reports are true.