Sentence examples for improprieties like from inspiring English sources

Terms of the possible settlement under consideration center on foreclosure improprieties like so-called robo-signing and submitting apparently forged documents to the courts to speed up the process of removing troubled borrowers from homes.

A lender that had been cited by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for improprieties, like widely hiring outside contractors as loan officers, NovaStar ran out of cash in 2007 and is no longer making loans.

The lawmakers have run into trouble for a wide variety of improprieties, like throwing coffee in the face of a staff member, sleeping in the home of a 21-year-old intern and siphoning money from a nonprofit group to pay for, among other things, $20,000 in takeout sushi.

Officials maintain, however, that the government is doing what it can to tackle climate change and deforestation, and Yudhoyono reportedly told Ford in their meeting on Tuesday: "We're trying to crack down on improprieties [like illegal logging] and we will be strict about it".

This forced senators "to justify their opposition by finding nonideological factors, like small financial improprieties from long ago.

Unfortunately, the taboo has led senators who oppose a nominee for ideological reasons to justify their opposition by finding nonideological factors, like small financial improprieties from long ago.

He said opponents of a nominee's ideology often tried to substitute other objections, like "small financial improprieties from long ago," to justify their opposition.

(Lance's father, Thomas Bertram Lance, the former White House budget chief who resigned in 1977 amid accusations of financial improprieties, was also involved in Debenture Guaranty; like his son, he was cleared).

The profile quotes an anonymous former minister in support of his interventions in government, saying: "Those who don't like the contents of his views allege constitutional impropriety as a way of undermining the views he holds.

The company was reeling from a string of bad news, including revenue shortfalls, losses and liabilities at divisions with specialties like sports marketing, disclosures of accounting improprieties and decreases in expected earnings.

That can look good to celebrities worried about bad press over things like relatives on the payroll, financial improprieties and high fundraising expenses (FORBES, March 20).