Sentence examples for at improper from inspiring English sources

The Abbot's bad example had affected the canon's behaviour, who ate and drank at improper times, failed to attend services (an average of 11 of the 25 canons attended) and roamed freely outside the abbey: visiting the town's alehouses and frequently going hunting.

2012: Takes the Concacaf presidency with a dig at "improper" shamed predecessor Jack Warner.

A deputy mayor from the governing Socialist Party, Assumpta Escarp, acknowledged almost apologetically that the law was aimed not so much at nakedness in the streets as at improper dress.

It also said it had "long been concerned" at "improper activities" by South African intelligence agents based in London, who appeared to be behind break-ins at the offices of anti-apartheid groups.

"Our problem with the C.C.R.B. has always been first, their predisposition that police officers are always wrong, second, their inexperienced investigators who conduct faulty investigations that arrive at improper conclusions, and now those wrong conclusions will be prosecuted at these kangaroo trials," Mr. Lynch said in a statement.

Mr. Huang said the project was still experimental, but he hoped it would provide journalists with modified phones that would come in a special case with a separate display that would provide an alert when the phone was active and transmitting data at improper times.

The company's position is that what investigators are looking at as improper payments were actually discounts received for paying its suppliers ahead of schedule, a widely accepted practice in the food industry.

- Let's all lighten up for a moment by looking at this old church booklet called "Perverted Distorted Sex" and laugh at the improper punctuation on the front cover.

(In 2001, authorities in Texas arrested an organized retail-crime gang that had reportedly stored a million dollars' worth of stolen baby formula in rodent-infested garages at an improper temperature).

We see case after case of bribery involving politicians and bureaucrats, the sale of fraudulent products by big companies, medical mishaps and their concealment at hospitals, improper investigations and subsequent coverups by police departments, and so on.

For the next three years, as similar cases came to light and the hideous effects of football brain trauma were examined in newspaper articles, television features and one heated Congressional hearing, the N.F.L. and its committee on concussions vehemently fought suggestions that their approach to the injury was at all improper.