His view of discourteous mobile users is widely-shared within the classical music community.

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Especially in these days when social media can play such an important role, being discourteous to job applicants makes virtually no sense.

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Worse, from the old Morganites' point of view, he was discourteous.

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He felt that to do less would have been discourteous.

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As the Queen and her royal party made their way through the university building there was shouting and one student was later charged by the university authorities with drinking from a bottle "which act was abusive and discourteous to the Queen and her accompanying party".

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