The Met could not spare the manpower and expertise to study thousands of cases of unseemly but hardly life-threatening tabloid skulduggery.
"When the most available contribution dollars meets the most contracts available, state and local, you have the ideal situation for 'pay to play.' " The temptations of office, in many cases legal but unseemly, have cost many New Jersey politicians their careers, leading Mr. Christie to ask repeatedly why others do not seem to learn from the examples.
The justices noted that if the decision had been otherwise, "it would inevitably result, in the most heinous or high profile cases, in an unseemly race to the courthouse between the defense and prosecution to see whether a guilty plea or notice of intent to seek the death penalty will be filed first".
But not in North Korea, and to prove it there was a man with a piece of cardboard sitting in the projection room to cover the lens in case anything deemed unseemly to Korean eyes was shown.
Judge James Rosenbaum, unmoved, dismissed the case, calling it "unseemly and baseless".Undaunted, the contract loggers voted to press on, despite being smirked at as backwoods dupes led astray by a slick big-city lawyer, and despite the foolishness of presenting all environmental protests against logging practices as part of a New Age conspiracy.
That first night I slept on a puppy pad over the bedsheet, in case of any unseemly leaks.
The details of his administration's patronage scandal, as is usual in such cases, are tedious and unseemly.
After taking on Ms. Roberts's case, Ms. Lynch uncovered the unseemly back story — a story that is playing out in poor neighborhoods all over the country.
In one famous case, academics found it unseemly to deal with an insult in the Roman author Catullus's Carmen 16, roughly rendered "I will bugger you and I will fuck your mouths, / Aurelius, you pathic, and you queer, Furius".
Women were forbidden to fight on foot in Franco's Spain, in case they were gored in unseemly ways.
