Sentence examples for propriety has from inspiring English sources

But, he pointed out, propriety has to come first.

Of course, this isn't the first time British propriety has been under siege.

Years later, the idea of rebelling against Cosby's old-fashioned propriety has itself come to seem old-fashioned, making it easier to appreciate his persona as a sustained comic performance, one based on an uneasy tension between fondness and disgust.

"Propriety has never been a part of North Korean rhetoric, but rarely has Pyongyang so ferociously - and personally - attacked a US leader, in this case pulling language right out of the American 1850s," writes Chico Harlan and Zachary A Goldfarb of the Washington Post.

They have dropped any lingering hold that ideas of correctness or propriety had on Murray.

This is the second time for Mr. Hevesi that questions of propriety have been raised about contributions from New Jersey.

Global luxury sales and epic Chinese political corruption have become so inextricably intertwined over the last decade that the recent kerfuffles in Chinese politics — the investigations and convictions and pledges of propriety — have been nothing but trouble for the privileged few.

The cathedrals, however, maintained liturgical vestment standards to a certain degree, even when the last vestiges of liturgical propriety had been extinguished in the parishes in the 18th century.

Modern politicians, and their surrounding media, and their further surrounding social media, are obsessed with spotting gaffes and transgressions – moments where lines of propriety have been crossed by their opponents – and then exploiting them.

Questions about the museum's arguments and propriety have abounded for years.

Even Dick Morris, that unctuous pollster and paragon of propriety, had to admit that his prediction of a Romney landslide was wrong because, "This isn't your father's America".