Sentence examples for may have been improper from inspiring English sources

In the case, the government for the first time cited Cohen's participation in a trade that may have been improper.

"It appears that there may have been improper electrical work done as late as the morning before the fire started," Sergeant McInnis said.

Mr. Cutler also said more than 25percentt of brokerage firms that sell mutual funds and 10percentt of the funds surveyed had permitted customers to engage in late trading that may have been improper.

The case against Mr. Martoma, the latest in a number of insider trading prosecutions of former SAC employees, "is the first time the government has pointed to Mr. Cohen's participation in a trade that may have been improper".

Give Mr. Letterman this much: His search for sex at work may have been improper, but at least he behaved like a grown-up, not like someone who acted as if it was all right to be a 50-year-old Elmo.

Though the case against Mr. Martoma is the first time the government has pointed to Mr. Cohen's participation in a trade that may have been improper, it is the latest in a spate of insider trading prosecutions of former SAC employees.

Some of the accounting "adjustments" made to enhance Dewey's fiscal picture during and after the financial crisis may well have been improper.

Mr. Cherkasky wrote that while he believes that some of Mr. Teitelbaum's actions may well have been improper, the information that he was said to have provided was of little legal consequence.

While this is seen as an altruistic act, Richardson noted that Laybourne-Smith was both a member of the National War Committee and sat on the sub-committee which drafted the rules of the competition, and thus it may have been considered "improper" to accept the money.

The statement said the purpose of the board's preliminary investigation was to determine if there was enough evidence to establish cash payments may have been made with improper intent or to have influenced the integrity of the award decision for the 2017 world championships.

One thing that will be absent from the trial, though, is perhaps the most tantalizing political tidbit: the implication that Robert E. Boyle, a Republican powerhouse and the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, may have been involved in improper business deals with the Pirros.