Sentence examples for proprieties from inspiring English sources

The Queen, who remains above the political fray as a constitutional monarch, observed the proprieties of not endorsing either side in the referendum.

"Unfortunately a combination of the general proprieties of observing the secrecy of budget decisions, together with the difficulty of reaching senior levels of the Papua New Guinea government in the days before the budget prevented that from happening in the way we would have liked that to happen".

One reason is that, whatever the proprieties of the case, Mrs Arroyo's explanation that she was anxious to make sure that the other side was not stealing her votes is not entirely implausible.

One is headed by Boris Berezovsky, a tycoon with a cavalier attitude to constitutional proprieties and a close relationship with the president's daughter.

In Britain the domestic intelligence services reckon that up to several thousand people stand ready to carry out violent acts on Islam's behalf people who are unlikely to change their minds because of a recondite debate on the proprieties of jihad conducted from an Egyptian prison.

Proprieties among sovereign countries come second to the imperative of survival.

A woman offended Iran's Islamic proprieties by dancing, and a man stripped to show scars from a torture session.

Respect for the proprieties may be seen as well in the outrage provoked in Sparta by a poem by Archilochus (7th century bce) in which he celebrated his lifesaving cowardice.

Indicative of respect for the proprieties was the secrecy with which the religious mysteries, such as those into which many Greek and Roman men were initiated, were evidently practiced so much so that there does not seem to be any record from antiquity of precisely what constituted the various mysteries.

All such bonds are evident in symbolic and ceremonial proprieties.

The domovoy sees to it that the various traditional proprieties are observed.