Sentence examples for almost proprietary from inspiring English sources

He took to the business of ordering with an almost proprietary seriousness.

The Brandons were available to the press, and to gay and transgender activists, who took an almost proprietary interest in them.

LILI TAYLOR is the type of actress whose fans feel almost proprietary toward her, as if they had discovered her personally.

Bask I did recently, and emerged with the same giddy sense of discovery, the same almost proprietary need to ensure that this small, quirky, immensely lovable new play does not go unnoticed by theatergoers in perennial search of fresh voices and boundary-bending experiments.

While the committee vote does not bind the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, which will be considering the project later this month, it is a measure of the almost proprietary concern that neighbors take in the fate of the tower, which has inspired religious comparisons ever since its christening 87 years ago as a "cathedral of commerce".

Leon Fleischer became the master of the left-hand repertory after an injury in the mid-1960's made him limit his use of his right hand, and although in recent seasons he has given recitals using both hands, he retains an almost proprietary relationship with the Ravel.

Journalists, encamped for weeks in front of Elian's house, seemed almost as proprietary as the crowd it was covering.

A Eva Talel, a Manhattan co-op and condominium lawyer, says that almost all proprietary leases allow the co-op to cancel the lease when a breach occurs.

A special mention should be made about the ABI microarray which contains almost 4,000 proprietary sequences, which are not in the public domain.

None of this affected the more focused songs, like "Scarlet Begonias," which rode the sort of feathery locomotive groove that the Dead could almost claim as proprietary.

While Instagram will almost surely keep its proprietary login system, it may add Facebook as an additional sign in option.