Sentence examples for propriety of taking from inspiring English sources

(a) A question about the propriety of taking a five-week vacation when U.S. soldiers were dying in Iraq.

The propriety of taking a square of ground for this purpose, at a cost of half a million of dollars, without any benefit, seems quite incomprehensible".

A senior economic adviser to Mitt Romney criticized President Obama and his policy toward crisis-torn Europe, and Germany in particular, in an op-ed article in a leading German newspaper on Saturday, raising the question of the propriety of taking America's political fights into international affairs.

In 1643, Governor Winthrop became embroiled in a controversy over the propriety of taking sides in a power struggle going on in neighbouring French Acadia.

On my recent visit to the newly reopened Ralph Lauren store, which houses all the company's men's lines, I half expected to see Frank Muytjens, Jack Spade, Michael Bastian and the like lined up on prayer mats outside, basking in the refracted propriety of it all, taking inspiration for 2012 collections.

Asked about the propriety of Rodriguez's taking Sucart around the team, General Manager Brian Cashman was succinct: "It's been handled," he said.... Rodriguez, who heard roughly as many boos as cheers from the Steinbrenner Field crowd, said he did not meet with baseball investigators who want to question him about his drug use.

Elouise Cobell was soft-spoken, but her politeness and sense of propriety took nothing away from her tenacity.

Under that standard, "if reasonable men could differ as to the propriety of the action taken by the trial court, then the action is not unreasonable and there can be no finding of an abuse of discretion".

Granted; and yet the principle of dramatic propriety may take us further than would first appear.

Women of all ages in my study repeatedly reported wanting to know more about their sexuality, they just didn't know how to go about it because guilt, shame, discomfort and propriety precluded their taking the risk.

A work of art offends people's religious or political beliefs or their sense of propriety, and they take matters into their own hands and damage or destroy it.