Sentence examples for but improper from inspiring English sources
Rather, I am referring to the legal, but improper, accounting methods used by chief executives to inflate reported earnings.
Their point — that the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church is too close to President Vladimir V. Putin for comfort — has been lost on their many detractors, and their act is not seen as brave, but improper.
Apparently, this is the result of a psychological necessity to euphemize a somewhat nasty, uncomfortable, or taboo matter, a device also employed for other words that describe seemingly important but improper behaviour or facets of culture.
If a carpet is designed to last for 10 years, but improper use and maintenance kills it after five, they've essentially doubled their environmental footprint and lost half of their investment.
"The actual event might not be the harmful thing, but improper training could be," said Dr. Joel Brenner, director of the sports medicine program at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, Va.
It goes without saying, but improper eyewear could seriously damage the vision of those looking directly into the eclipse.
It was not the backdating that was against the law, but the improper accounting of it that was illegal.
Two other commissioners were deemed imprudent, but not improper, in hiring friends and relatives.The investigators' fatal shot was their parting one.
That source, Vincent Cannistraro, a former Central Intelligence Agency official who was a consultant for ABC News at the time, said in an interview that Mr. Isham had done something discourteous, perhaps, but not improper.
This result indicates that the C-H...O H-bond in complex IV is not a classical red-shifting H-bond but an improper blue-shifting H-bond [67 69].
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin told reporters on Thursday that "James Comey's comments during the campaign were not only harmful to the Hillary Clinton effort, but were improper under FBI standards ….
