Sentence examples for for reasons of propriety from inspiring English sources

Maintaining an appropriate degree of separation between these elements is complex, but is necessary for reasons of propriety.

Still, the nighttime spike requires delicacy among retailers: for reasons of propriety, they do not want to be seen as encouraging drunken shopping, and many people who inadvertently buy products in that state would most likely return them at high rates.

"I might be inside my house," Bowen is told by one woman who rarely steps out for reasons of Islamic propriety, "but my heart is liberated".

This is arguably a unique source of restraint on the sexual behaviour of adolescent Thai males, contrasting with a more general parental restraint imposed on adolescent females of all ethnic backgrounds in the same social-educational group for reasons of cultural propriety and family honour more than academic attainment.

A little girl called Olive Abigail Breslinn) has a shot at winning the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, and for various reasons of economy and propriety, her whole crazy family has to accompany her there, travelling hundreds of miles together cross-country in a clapped-out old VW van.

(We can think of two reasons for so bloated a feline; for the sake of propriety, we'll go with an overindulgence in Tender Vittles).

The character for the virtue of propriety is identical with the one for ritual, reflecting the close connection between this virtue and such practices.

Chanel's respect for the appearance of propriety was the adaptive trait of the orphan and shopgirl.

For the sake of propriety, ambition, desire or privacy, they learn to seal their anxiety off from public view.

The counterculture exhibited its contempt for liberalism's sense of propriety in a thousand ways.

This is the second time for Mr. Hevesi that questions of propriety have been raised about contributions from New Jersey.