Sentence examples for general propriety from inspiring English sources

It also spoke of fears developing that "civility" — in this case, a shared sense of general propriety — was endangered even among the suburbs' young children.

Indeed, Sue Gray (job title: "Director General, Propriety and Ethics Team") at the Cabinet Office has given advice to special advisers on how to destroy data in their email accounts specifically in order to avoid needing to make disclosure.

It might be asserted that the general type of motif – for instance FFL rather than 3-cycle – is selected because of a general propriety to serve a particular function (For example, Alon et al. [ 1] pointed out that a FFL with AND logic at the output node can function as a filter rejecting transient stimuli).

"Unfortunately a combination of the general proprieties of observing the secrecy of budget decisions, together with the difficulty of reaching senior levels of the Papua New Guinea government in the days before the budget prevented that from happening in the way we would have liked that to happen".

These principles together amount to a general requirement of propriety.

"My view is that I don't have a view," said the general, regarding the propriety of techniques used in what the CIA, very hot on euphemisms, also calls "the Programme".

Timothy felt so strongly about not taking part in the Rochester and Strood byelection because Sue Gray, the director general at the propriety and ethics team at the cabinet office, declined to confirm in writing that special advisers could campaign after being asked to do so on seven occasions.

Little Dorrit is rich in epicycles: here a little flourish of Barnacles or an orbit for Mr F's aunt; there a moon called Bleeding Heart Yard; and, just over there, a minor planet on which Mrs General drives the proprieties in the form of elocution lessons for genteel young ladies ("papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms").

For general references and proprieties of these spaces, the reader may consult [3].

In October at the SEC media day, Summitt was asked a general question about recruiting propriety and said: "I've never compromised at all, and I wouldn't.

The Pentagon's inspector general is reviewing the propriety of emails between Allen and the woman, Jill Kelley, who sparked the probe that led CIA chief David H. Petraeus to acknowledge an extramarital affair and resign.