Sentence examples for had been appropriate for from inspiring English sources

In essence, he said the job of attorney general would require him to enforce, follow and uphold the law whether he agreed with it or not; as a senator, it had been appropriate for him to try to change the law, to be an advocate for causes, but as attorney general, he would set those roles aside.

During a question-and-answer period, Mr. Burris was asked whether it had been appropriate for him to try to solicit fund-raising money for Mr. Blagojevich, as Mr. Burris this week acknowledged doing, at the same time that he was hoping Mr. Blagojevich would appoint him to the Senate.

Yet during a meeting sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAAandand the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA), held May 26 27 at Louisiana State University, more than 50 scientists concluded that dispersant applications to that point had been appropriate for the Deepwater Horizon response.

(The names of Uranus's children, the Titans, already had been appropriated for Saturn's moons).

There were several motivations for secrecy: no actual funds, for example, had been appropriated for government gold-hunting.

The Congressional Budget Office has already noted that about $30 billion that had been appropriated for this year was essentially delayed and pushed into 2004.

Warrick's plan involved using forty million dollars that had been appropriated for the election to covertly provide cell phones, vehicles, radios, security, administrative help, and cash to the parties the Administration favored.

Their ricefields had been appropriated for a golf course, part of a South Korean project to build the sort of residential paradise that Vietnam believes it needs in order to catch up with its neighbours.

Only $56 billion had been appropriated for the Iraq War by the time President George W. Bush declared 'Mission Accomplished' in May 2003, and 172 coalition servicemen had died.

As a result, the funds that had been appropriated for the Navy in 1906 were going to be used up before they were scheduled to be replenished in 1911.

A red card might have been appropriate for the West Indies' Sylvester Clarke in Multan in 1980.