Sentence examples for propriety among from inspiring English sources

Kellner took his son to a modesty committee, called vaad hatznius, which enforces standards of sexual propriety among Borough Park's hundred thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews, the majority of them Hasidic.

No degree of moral propriety among public servants, or corporate leaders, can stop the explosion of spying and the propagation of false information that we will witness over the next decade.

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

(In truth, he was suffering from advanced, untreated syphilis a diagnosis his doctors conveyed to him late in 1938 but the congressman held office in an era when prevailing notions of propriety, including among journalists, helped shield a candidate's personal life from close public scrutiny if not from gossip).

It also spoke of fears developing that "civility" — in this case, a shared sense of general propriety — was endangered even among the suburbs' young children.

The general coarsening of popular culture has essentially done away with traditional standards of propriety, decency, and taste among the ultrasmart twentysomethings who staff the creative departments of most top agencies.

Yet while health professionals — not only physicians but also nurses and social workers — may debate among themselves the propriety of emotional displays, what probably matters most is what patients think.

Twenty years ago, after Gillian Wearing graduated from Goldsmiths College, the year behind Damien Hirst, she was already quietly obsessed with that shift in propriety and candour and was among the first to anticipate and dramatise its implications.

Re "At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions?" (Essay, April 22): Dr. Barron H. Lerner writes that health professionals now "debate among themselves the propriety of emotional displays" with patients and describes the difficulty doctors face in differentiating their patients who would appreciate "physical contact or tears" from those who would not.

But there is concern and even anger among legislators about the propriety and legality of the NSA's access to the haystack.

Women's swimsuits revealed little more than the lower arm and lower leg, but sometimes clung, causing consternation among the guardians of propriety.