| The cloak of senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a byword in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land. |
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| The truth is, that on this occasion, had senatorial courtesy been on the job, it would have worked for a final vote. |
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| Abusive use of senatorial courtesy has substantially limited the governor's power to appoint. |
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| The Democrats and moderate Republicans who voted for Mr. Ashcroft are not obliged to extend senatorial courtesy to his nominees. |
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| Such pleas are usually honored as a matter of senatorial courtesy. |
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| Judge Pressler was at the center of a controversy in 1983, when a state senator, Gerald Cardinale, invoked the privilege known as senatorial courtesy to block her reappointment to the Superior Court. |
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| There was a time when Senatorial courtesy was all-powerful among the members of former days, when it was more potent than party obligation. |
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| Senatorial courtesy can not be a cloak to prevent men from voting their honest convictions, and it shall never be with me. |
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| The chief of these is the principle of Senatorial courtesy, under which business can only be transacted by consent of the minority. |
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| Senatorial courtesy is to be applauded rather than reprobated, but when a Senator abuses that courtesy, and uses it for purposes for which it was never intended, it becomes a fraud. |
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