Sentence examples for express improperly from inspiring English sources

The great 12-volume Century Dictionary of 1890 was the first to define the colloquial sense of misspeak: "to express improperly or imperfectly; to speak otherwise than according to one's intention".

Plenty of organizations and people have already expressed regret at improperly handling the beginning stages of this virus, but it is vital that we move beyond the blame and focus on what we're doing to solve the problem.

Our finding that different LSGs are expressed in DNs improperly located in different layers of the cortex ribbon suggest that, whatever the defect, it occurred in the early period of development.

Important for peptide vaccine development, these results imply that T cells responding to the ineffective variants (like WMF) cannot be "rescued" or forced to respond to the tumor antigen with better adjuvants; they are not anergic or improperly activated, they simply express T cell receptors that interact poorly with the native tumor antigen.

And a correction in this space, also on Sunday, expressed the actual margin improperly.

Craig Masback, chief executive of the United States track and field federation, met with Pound here today to express his displeasure with the way his federation had been portrayed as behaving improperly in handling doping matters.

Loosely following Locke's distinctions, Clarke argues that there are three kinds of properties: those that inhere in the substance (real properties), those that are commonly but improperly believed to reside in the substance (secondary qualities), and "merely abstract names to express the effects" of material substances or systems (CC 56 58).

When, at the end of Bush's presidency, a federal district court judge condoned this practice of exclusion and improperly ruled that such conduct did not violate our constitutional right to freedom of speech, it became very clear what was at risk: the right for Americans to express our own ideas without fear of government punishment.

Less than two weeks after the shootings in Nisour Square in Baghdad in September 2007, lawyers at the State Department, which employed the guards, expressed concern that prosecutors might be improperly using the compulsory reports in preparing a criminal case against them, according to the decision.

The PNC Financial Services Group, Pennsylvania's largest bank, announced yesterday that it would reduce its 2001 net income by $155 million, or 53 cents a share, after Fed officials expressed concerns that the company was improperly accounting for some problem loans and venture capital holdings that it sold last year to three separate entities.

Despite cases like Mr. Beach's, civil libertarians have expressed concern that the state might use DNA samples improperly.