Sentence examples for Maintain propriety from inspiring English sources
The phrase "Maintain propriety" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to someone's behavior or when discussing social etiquette and norms. For example: "It is important to maintain propriety during business meetings, so everyone should know proper meeting etiquette."
During a recent trip to New York, to maintain propriety, I found I needed a new belt, size 34.
Meanwhile Quirk Books are attempting to repeat their success with the recently published Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Quirk £8.99, p344) by Ben H Winters. Here, the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are exiled to a small island off the Devonshire coast, where polite society does its best to maintain propriety in the face of terrors of the deep.
You can still maintain propriety in avoiding drab shades of gray and black and choosing more prismatic hues.
She was raised to care about clothes and looks and maintaining proprieties in an élite social milieu, and she spent her twenties and thirties dutifully playing the role for which she'd been bred, but she never stopped being the girl who made up stories.
If Labour wants to maintain its propriety and integrity while pocketing gifts from people like Desmond, it needs to establish a similar form of get-out, enabling Reid to say: "Yes, we stick with our ancient principles here, but that Desmond money went down the road to our campione, where those rules don't apply".
"People are not allowed to browse the museum at this hour," the security guard half-joked, cracking a smile, maintaining outward propriety but telegraphing a tolerance for misbehavior.
Maintaining Islamic proprieties was also important; ensuring interviewers were of an appropriate gender and having an accompanying male relative escort the lead interviewer when necessary, was appreciated and commented on favourably by many participants.
Mr. Penn maintained a sexual propriety with his models but extracted what he found erotic about their appearance.
Sequencing of total DNA derived from each was done by the shotgun sequencing approach on the 454 GS Junior system, and the sequencing quality was maintained by 454 propriety software.
Ms. Dutcher, too, felt the need to maintain a level of propriety.
There have been relatively few accusations of sexual abuse brushed under the carpet to maintain an illusion of propriety.
