Sentence examples for improper state from inspiring English sources

South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, has denied acting dishonestly during a long-running scandal over improper state spending at his private home, Nkandla, the day after a scathing constitutional court ruling on the saga.

The European Commission is poised to launch a formal in-depth probe into its serious concerns over improper state aid, dragging Amazon into a multi-pronged clampdown on sweetheart tax deals that has already ensnared Apple in Ireland and Starbucks in the Netherlands.

Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Jim Bunning, R-Ky., said financing provided by Chinese state-owned banks for the bid is a direct and improper state subsidy, according to a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Trade Representative Robert Portman obtained by Dow Jones Newswires.

If an arrest is improper under state law, does that mean that a search the police conduct in connection with the arrest is necessarily improper as well, even if the arrest met constitutional standards?

Structural information contained in these files can be incomplete or not appropriate (e.g. improper protonation state, two-dimensional coordinates, etc)., therefore a preliminary structure optimization is performed.

For example, under the current rule corporations are allowed to exclude shareholder proposals that relate to elections (so no insurgent director nominees needed to be included on management's proxy) and corporations are permitted to exclude proposals that "are improper under State law".

The QM/MM calculations using the two trial systems generated with methods (i) and (ii) did not result in any nucleophilic attack at the anomeric center, due to the improper reactant state structures.

The third official, Ahmed el-Maghraby, was found not guilty of profiteering from an improper sale of state-owned land when he was housing minister.

(Might the vice president's assault on Enzi be an effort to neutralize his daughter's own fish-related scandal, the fine she paid for an improper in-state fishing license? While Liz Cheney blamed a clerical error, the episode played into the foremost challenge of her campaign, dispelling the notion she parachuted into Wyoming after decades away simply to seek office).

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island will pay $20 million but avoid criminal charges after a federal investigation into improper lobbying of state legislators by its executives.

"We believe that such a request could only be made for an illicit, fraudulent and improper purpose," William R. Scherer, state co-chairman of Lawyers for Bush, wrote.