Sentence examples for had been appropriate from inspiring English sources

A GEO manager said the use of handcuffs had been appropriate.

He said he would have been happy to have served as a juror if it had been appropriate.

Tenet said that its Medicare payments had been appropriate and that it would provide more information shortly.

In an interview, Mr. Seabrook said that the use of force against the inmate had been appropriate.

However, a lengthy investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that his decision to ditch in the Hudson had been appropriate.

"I was asked what I had been wearing – even things like whether I'd considered if my footwear had been appropriate if I needed to make a hasty escape".

This was the first time that kind of technique had been appropriated".

"But (her superior) was so defensive and said that the procedures we had were appropriate.

It would have been appropriate.

Would that have been appropriate?

In many ways this has been appropriate.