Sentence examples for improperly failed from inspiring English sources

The report also said Mr. Deal had improperly failed to disclose that he was a corporate officer at the company, meaning that the $75,000 he earned from the business in 2008 violated a House limit on members' outside income.

In another jury instruction, the court said, Judge Stanton improperly failed to explain that unless all 12 jurors agreed that a specific aggravating factor had been established, it could not be considered at all.

The core charges of the indictment against Mr. Belnick contended that he improperly failed to disclose interest-free loans from Tyco totaling more than $14.5 million and that he took an improper bonus of cash and stock worth $17 million.

In April, both the chief executive and chairman of ImClone were forced to resign amid federal and internal inquiries into whether the company had improperly failed to withhold taxes on the exercise of stock options by executives.

Despite the quiet end to several of its highest-profile investigations, both Mr. Smith and Mr. Breuer portrayed the Public Integrity Section as reinvigorated after the turbulence it experienced 20 months ago, when its case against Mr. Stevens, Republican of Alaska, who died in August, collapsed because the trial team had improperly failed to disclose mitigating evidence.

However, regardless of this error, we again note the focus of the trial court's inquiry in an election contest authorized by the Legislature pursuant to the express statutory provisions of section 102.168 is not by appellate review to determine whether the board properly or improperly failed to complete the manual recount.

But Patco appealed, arguing that because People's United had configured its security systems improperly, the bank failed to prevent the crime.

Dana Sullivan, spokesman for the State Division of Motor Vehicles, said yesterday that the machines' results were off by so little that few cars were likely to have passed or failed improperly.

The Buena Vista Home Entertainment unit of Disney asserts that Blockbuster improperly deducted "promotional" credits, failed to account for "hundreds of thousands" of missing videos and sold videos prematurely under the agreement, which was signed in 1997.

That was before Miami-Dade, Broward and a few other counties had to amend their results because of problems at the polls: precincts opened late, workers operated machines improperly and elections officials failed to retrieve voting data from some equipment.

Leveson said Salmond, who insisted throughout his inquiry evidence that he had a duty to protect Scottish jobs, was saved from criticism for acting improperly essentially because he failed to carry through with his promised lobbying of either Vince Cable, the business secretary, or Jeremy Hunt, then culture secretary.