Sentence examples for is as proper from inspiring English sources

To be liberal, if not leftist, is as proper as a quilted handbag.

He is able to assess a situation then impose himself upon it, pacing his innings accordingly, and the pleasure he takes in competing hard is as proper as it is infectious.

It is as proper a way to garden as anything else that I know.

In her history course, colleagues said, she taught that the experience of ordinary people is as proper a subject as the chronicles of wars and politicians.

"For the state to intervene", he argued, "to make more just and equal the relative strategic advantages of the two parties to the contract, of whom one is under the pressure of absolute want, while the other is not, is as proper a legislative function as that it should neutralize the relative advantages arising from fraudulent cunning or from superior force".

Such provisions, as parts of inspection laws, are as proper as provisions for inspecting quality, and it cannot be said that the absence of the latter provisions, in respect to any particular class of tobacco, necessarily causes the laws containing the former provisions to cease to be inspection laws.

Some say the Empress Tea is as good as proper teas in England, and we agree.

No one will expect a temporary pavilion to be as proper a setting for full-blooded opera as, say, the Royal Opera House.

Mr. Putin seemed to be suggesting that if he ran again, it would be as proper because he would be complying with Russia's Constitution.

When the ban's opponents got their turn, Noah Purcell, Washington State's solicitor general, argued that this was indeed that sort of situation, and the states were as proper plaintiffs as anyone to bring the case.

In a posh drawing room that's as proper and sedate as Charles's sturdy second wife, Ruth Jayne Atkinsonn), Madame Arcati (Angela Lansbury), the Martini-guzzling, Irving Berlin-loving local spiritualist, accidently conjures up his late first wife, Elvira Christine EbersoleElvira Christine Ebersole