It may be used on first meeting and accompanied by a formal handshake when both partners issue the same greeting. The reply to How do you do? is How do you do? Then it would be a matter of getting ...

children travel through the spaces, stopping to shake hands with whoever they meet. Meeting and greeting: partners face one another to wave, shake hands and turn round together on the spot.

"In keeping with the customary diplomatic practices a corresponding message of greeting is sent ... Vladimir Karasev further elaborated that the British authorities were also interested in ...