2. Legg has decided that "fundamental principles of propriety" are more important than the rules.
But he has also delved into the Green Book to come up with some "fundamental principles of propriety" and Legg has decided to use these to decide what claims are allowable.
"It looms large in the imagination as a place of fundamental goodness and propriety, order and peace; to have the incredible eruption of murder into that comfort, blowing it apart, is shocking.
These are: (a) claims not supported by documentary evidence, such as mortgage interest payments; (b) claims that were in breach of the Green Book rules; and (c) – and this is the controversial category – claims incompatible with his "fundamental principles of propriety".
Or maybe she'll recreate "The Dating Game" in midshow and then tell you later, in all sincerity, how reality television's declining standards of propriety are symptomatic of fundamental problems with modern courtship.
The danger is that, in the light of the "Trojan horse" affair, Ofsted finds itself the arbiter of what constitutes extremism in schools – without any thought-through consensus on the "fundamental values" threatened by extremism or on the propriety of investing this responsibility to an organisation whose inspectors are not trained (who could be?) to undertake the task.
The fundamental values and objectives of Confucianism are humanity, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faithfulness.
Terms like Dao (literally, the "Way") in Daoism or li (ritual propriety) and xiao (filial piety) in Confucianism summarize fundamental emphases of the religious systems of which they are a part.
Recognizing that Mr. Newdow, a divorced father, wanted the court to assess "the propriety of a widespread national ritual," the court emphasized that when fundamental issues are at stake, it must attend carefully to limits on its own authority.
Xunzi's fundamental complaint about Hui Shi and Deng Xi is that their "frivolous investigations" do not conform to traditional ritual propriety and righteousness (3.1), an unsurprising criticism given the Confucian's commitment to ritual training and thus conventional standards for the correct use of names—along with his general disdain for science and intellectual curiosity (12.3).
