Sentence examples for more improper than from inspiring English sources

Their invention was regarded as a reputable medical instrument – no more improper than a stethoscope – but became wildly popular among Victorian and Edwardian gentlewomen, who soon began buying vibrators for themselves.

In this point of view nothing could be more improper than the Vice-President signing an address to the President.

The Duke Energy Corporation said yesterday that it had made 66 more "improper" energy trades than previously disclosed and dismissed two employees as a result.

"There should be no more improper contact" between the police and the media, he added, "of a selfish, rather than a public, interest".

"There should be no more improper contact.

The order is punishment for more than two hundred improper transactions Nomura carried out from April 1997 to April 2000 for two foreign clients.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or C.M.S., estimated that in 2010, the two programs together made more than $65 billion in improper federal payments.

Congressional investigators say Social Security has made more than $1 billion in improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work.

Jim McLaughlin, who had led the operating engineers' union local in Southern California for 17 years, was reviewing some expense accounts and grew convinced that his local's apprenticeship coordinator had charged more than $2,000 in improper expenses to the apprenticeship program.

The Pennsylvania suit against Wachovia alleges that the bank's involvement with telemarketing thefts dates to October 2003, when Wachovia was warned by another bank that a Wachovia client named AmeriNet had tried to process more than $100,000 in improper withdrawals.

Although smaller in scale, the allegations are similar in nature to those the commission filed in 2004 against five large specialist firms on the New York Stock Exchange, accusing them of collecting more than $150 million in improper profits.