The phrase "improperly for" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered awkward or incorrect.
A better way to phrase this could be "incorrectly for" or "not suitable for." Example: The dress was improperly for the formal occasion and she was the only one wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
BYD was fined for obtaining land improperly for a factory in Xi'an.
He said Alliance had no way to detect that the company had accounted improperly for billions of dollars of expenses.
Mr. Carey was also questioned before a grand jury about whether anyone had told him in 1996 that money had been raised improperly for his campaign.
WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase confirmed Monday that federal regulators were investigating whether the bank had allowed a hedge fund to choose assets improperly for a $1.1 billion mortgage securities deal.
"He would have been charged," Mr. Romankow said, adding that Mr. Zurick sometimes left his post improperly for meals and would go to a jail exercise room when he should have been on duty.
After Mr. Leifer refused to take Mr. Abrams's checks, Mr. Mason had Mr. Abrams write rent checks to him, which he deposited in his lawyer's escrow account and drew on, improperly, for personal use, the panel said.
If any of these companies are found to be improperly benefiting for-profit companies, they risk losing their nonprofit status.
An appeals court upheld the conviction of James J. Treacy, the former chief operating officer of Monster Worldwide, for improperly accounting for backdated stock options, but it also ruled that the amount he had to forfeit was not correctly calculated.
(See "Buffett Pockets Constellation").. Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate spans the finance and industrial sectors, has been involved with Wall Street before, bailing out Salomon Brothers after that firm ran into trouble for improperly bidding for U.S. Treasury bonds.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the N.L.R.B. cannot order reinstatement or back pay for illegal immigrants who were improperly fired for seeking to unionize.
Delphi has said that it improperly accounted for $237 million in cash payments for warranty claims to its former parent, General Motors, in 2000.
