Sentence examples for Political propriety from inspiring English sources

From now until November, Weld will travel the country, preaching his brand of political propriety.

But Thais seem to think of the king as an arbiter of political propriety, not an offender against it.

After he was elected governor, Bush put most of his investments into a blind trust - the Lone Star Trust - in the interests of political propriety.

Instead, Mr. Reid appears to be once again reprising a rhetorical technique he has mastered over 25 years in the Senate: repeatedly needling his Republican adversaries in ways that often push the boundaries of political propriety.

It left the impression that the modern world of propriety and political correctness (or, respect and courtesy) had passed him by.

Miss Mahdavi, a female commander of Qom's baseej, the republic's voluntary militia which among other things—enforces propriety and political loyalty, recently organised a conference to raise awareness of "satanic plots" and to "safeguard the values and ideals of the revolution and religion".

And, although Dad's Army had a better start, that show was also carefully nursed by the BBC through transition from black-and-white to colour and through political controversies over the propriety of making jokes about the second world war.

Bernie Mac's intensity and outrageousness — he styles himself as someone who says not just what the rest of us don't say but also what we can't say, out of propriety or political correctness — might seem to make him an unlikely prospect for network television, but someone heard his plea, and "The Bernie Mac Show," a triumph of half-hour comedy, débuted on Fox in November.

They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated political, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself".

He argued that high crimes and misdemeanors "are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to society itself".

It's terrifying to witness how swiftly rape orthodoxies reassert themselves: that impugning a man's sexual propriety is a political act, that sexual assault complainants are prone to a level of mendacity others are not (and, in this case, deserving of the same crowd-sourced scrutiny afforded leaked diplomatic cables), that not all forms of non-consensual sex count as "rape-rape"..