Sentence examples for proper matter from inspiring English sources

Williams says education "might well be regarded as a proper matter for open probing".

"If Britain's future as an independent country is not a proper matter for a referendum, then I have absolutely no idea what is".

Batman, then, came out of a time when the private ownership of firearms was considered a proper matter for government regulation.

But it could indicate that Mr. Schröder's vision is not an unreasonable one, whether or not it is a proper matter for the government to try to control.

But, for example, the comprehensive reworking of the Education Act 1944 that is now going forward might well be regarded as a proper matter for open probing in the context of election debates.

Many companies say the health care principles are not a proper matter for shareholders to vote on, and they have tried to keep the proposal out of proxy statements prepared for their 2008 annual meetings.

The proper subject matter of children's literature, apart from informational or didactic works, is children.

A self-aware literature flows from a recognition of its proper subject matter.

The novel, and the critical consensus around what is valued in a novel, has never excluded the emotional lives of women as proper subject matter.

Comparative ethics, in contrast to normative ethics, is thus the proper subject matter of the social sciences (e.g., anthropology, history, sociology, and psychology).

He challenged the traditional hierarchy of values, the purist view held by the British art establishment of what was proper subject matter for a work of art.