comity of nations

noun

1. the friendly recognition accorded by one nation to the laws and usages of another

Example Sentences

He said the step clashed with an international concept of the “comity of nations,” which recognizes that countries’ laws have territorial limits.

From Seattle Times

The practical effect of the sanctions — beyond the breach of comity of nations — may well be overblown.

From New York Times

Each had made the people of this doubly landlocked country — one of only two, the other being Liechtenstein — of 34 million part of a greater world, a cosmopolis, a comity of nations.

From New York Times

Not an authoritarian state, not a crackpot dictatorship, not a rogue nation or warlord outside of legal and ethical commitments to international statutes, but a democratic country, a member of the comity of nations.

From The Guardian

Soccer had allowed Costa Rica entry to what the Afro-Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James once called “the comity of nations.”

From New York Times