Payment from public funds, and the increasing sense that it was actually improper to find payment in other sources, broadened the social reach of the political classes.
This uniform distribution is actually an improper prior which might lead to an improper posterior.
Giving some credence to the argument that the government may have been overzealous in its prosecution of Albert J. Pirro Jr. on tax fraud charges, an agent for the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged today that only a small fraction of the deductions taken by Mr. Pirro's myriad companies were actually deemed improper.
While bunions look like bone growths (they're not), they are actually the result of improper alignment of the big toe joint.
The company's position is that what investigators are looking at as improper payments were actually discounts received for paying its suppliers ahead of schedule, a widely accepted practice in the food industry.
And in those limited instances in which Americans become intelligence targets, FISA exists to make sure that the agencies are not targeting people for improper reasons but have sufficient evidence that Americans are actually operating as foreign agents.
The candidate PACs grew out of the unlimited contribution binge permitted by Citizens United, but they are actually in direct contravention of the court's (mistaken) belief that contributions to independent groups cannot be considered improper attempts to influence the candidate.
Both reports detail the improper accounting, totaling more than $9 billion, which allowed the company to appear profitable when it was actually suffering losses.
In a case involving Wells Fargo and a Louisiana borrower, for example, the court found that the bank assessed improper fees and charges that added more than $24,000 to a loan, some 12percentt more than the court said was actually owed.
"Spitting image" was once a mondegreen, a mishearing and improper syllabic split of "spit and image". (Spit is another term for likeness.) When you eat an orange, you're actually consuming "a naranj" (from Persian and Sanskrit).
