Sentence examples for is not improper from inspiring English sources

Why is it that it would have been improper for me to serve on that jury with 11 other people, yet it is not improper for Justice Antonin Scalia to judge a case involving his good friend Dick Cheney (front page, March 19)?

Even a writer who can assume a readership inured to every possible confession requires courage and the confidence of knowing and accepting her deepest self to acknowledge a sexual interrelation — although one that is not improper, psychic rather than physical — between parent and child.

The idea of raiding a classic for characters, themes and structure isn't new and isn't improper.

If it isn't improper for the Forest Service -- whose mission is to protect public lands, not foreign mining companies and their investors -- to be cutting corners to meet Augusta's "needs," it's hard to imagine what is.

It's not improper to fill a flute pretty full".

These actions by the Justices are not improper, but they are revealing.

And city officials maintained that their efforts to get parents to meetings were not improper.

("I was president of the Senate, so it's not improper," he said).

The appellate court found that Judge Baird's comments were not improper.

He said the $20,000 payments he received from businesses as a consultant while he was a senator were not improper.

But Mr. Goldman said Mr. Ciongoli's appointment was "not improper" because it concerned a point that the parties were not free to decide for themselves.