Sentence examples for improperly believed from inspiring English sources

Loosely following Locke's distinctions, Clarke argues that there are three kinds of properties: those that inhere in the substance (real properties), those that are commonly but improperly believed to reside in the substance (secondary qualities), and "merely abstract names to express the effects" of material substances or systems (CC 56 58).

Ms. Yellen replied, "Improperly measured, I believe that heading toward 2 percent inflation would be a good idea, and that we should do so in a slow fashion, looking at what happens along the way".

Federal regulators approved tougher constraints on Wall Street risk-taking on Monday, adopting the MF Global rule, named after the collapsed brokerage firm that is believed to have improperly used millions of dollars of customer money.

The senior investigator said that the Internal Affairs Bureau had solid identifications on three or four officers who they said they believed had acted improperly and were close on one or two others.

Some jurors said they believed the lawyers acted improperly.

Mr. Blumenthal would not say which stores had improperly taxed items, but added he believed it was done unintentionally.

She also said that the two men had failed to explain why they believed they had been improperly credited on record labels.

The bank, which had overseen Mrs. Astor's finances since the court filing in July 2006, agreed not to pursue litigation to recover millions of dollars in cash, property and stocks that it believed Mr. Marshall might have improperly obtained.

His comments were supported by several journalists and retired officers, though others believed Dannatt had acted improperly and called for his resignation, while Simon Jenkins of The Times called Dannatt's comments "either daringly brave or totally naive".

Responding to international pressure, officials in Germany have released a preliminary list of the more than 1,400 works of art discovered in a Munich apartment that are believed to have been improperly acquired by the Nazis.

The infectious agent is believed to consist of improperly folded forms of a host-encoded protein, the cellular prion protein (PrPC).