Sentence examples for made an improper from inspiring English sources

"Is it my fault if the clerk made an improper assumption?" he asked.

Ms. Willey, a former White House volunteer, said Mr. Clinton made an improper advance in the fall of 1993.

JPMorgan also made an improper $2.9 million loan in 2009 to a bank tied to Iran's government-owned shipping line, according to the Treasury Department.

Major League Baseball acknowledged that the umpires made an "improper call," but the league's executive vice president, Joe Torre, said the "judgment" decision was final.

The main underwriter of those bonds, Bear Stearns, was later found to have made an improper payment to win the business, figuring in the corruption trial of a former governor, Rod R. Blagojevich.

In the memo, the government also disputed a defense contention that Judge Kaplan should not have instructed the jury on one point, and that Mr. Farbiarz had made an improper argument during his rebuttal before the jury.

"The mistakes are always about making an improper assessment of the economic future," he says.

Just last month, the Senate Ethics Committee officially admonished Pete Domenici, the longtime New Mexico senator, for making an improper phone call to you.

"We agreed on an angle that would eliminate the potential for anyone to make an improper gesture or hold up an improper poster behind us," Lundquist said.

One attraction is alcohol's power to disinhibit — to allow us, at last, to tell off our neighbor or make an improper suggestion to his wife.

But he was arrested again the next morning by the Louisiana State Police, who charged him with driving while intoxicated and making an improper turn.