Sentence examples for may be improper from inspiring English sources

But many civil liberties advocates have said they are worried that the large number of arrests may be improper.

In S.E.C. v. Goble, the appellate court reiterated its position that an injunction simply parroting an antifraud provision of the securities laws may be improper.

They hastily convened a five-judge panel to protect themselves from complicity in what the House subcommittee chairman called an assignment procedure that was "unusual, unorthodox and may be improper".

The lawsuit by Starr, A.I.G.'s largest shareholder, says the accord may be improper because A.I.G. agreed to make restitution to at least three states where it never sold workers' compensation coverage.

We argue, however, that this notion of informativeness is prone to application biases, thus it may be improper to compare different systems and applications.

The usage of certain words or phrases based on the culture of a given society may be improper in the target language and/or culture.

In the event that Mr. Obama appears to gain any further ground in the polls over the next week or so, it may well be improper to describe them as reflecting continued "momentum" from his convention, when the public's reaction to the Libya attacks may be responsible instead.

On the contrary, many experts say that while open vote-buying by the Nationalists may be declining, improper links between politics and business and even organized crime have if anything grown more prevalent as Mr. Lee sought to preserve the Nationalist Party's power in local and national elections.

He and Brown also laid out in clear terms the reason for the recent decrease in depreciation and amortization, and subtle assertions that there may be something improper.

Groups may be found improper subjects of rights because they lack properties, other than genuine integrity, that are deemed essential for right-holding.

These elongations of the proton donor X-H bond display the characteristic classical red-shifting H-bonds, it is noteworthy that the C-H bond in complex IV is shortened by about 0.001 Å, which indicates that the C-H...O may be an improper blue-shifting H-bond.